Resize Canvas: don't rewrite width/height when "Maintain aspect ratio" is being turned off

[Hyphen-ated]

Often when I use the Resize Canvas dialog, I run into this small annoyance:

First I click "By absolute size" and then I edit the width and height to the size I want. Then I see, "Oh, the 'Maintain aspect ratio' checkbox has defaulted itself to checked, as it always does. I need to turn it off." So I click to turn it off. The moment I make that click, the width or height rewrites itself to maintain the aspect ratio, the exact thing I'm in the process of saying I don't want. So I have to retype a number that had just been correct one second ago. I could work around this by always making sure to uncheck the checkbox first, but I tend not to do this because the checkbox is below the number fields. The "correct" order I'm supposed to interact with them is not the natural reading order.

I think it would be better if clicking to untoggle this checkbox did not cause the numbers to change. Or failing that, it would be nicer to have the checkbox above the numbers so you are encouraged to edit them in the order that isn't frustrating.

[cameronwhite]

I don't think clicking the toggle is what specifically causes the other value to update - rather, whenever you finish editing one of the numbers (in this case by moving focus to a different widget) the other will update. Pressing TAB to cycle focus to a different widget would also trigger an update

Maybe the better solution here is to have the dialog remember your previous settings? E.g if you're always trying to resize images to some specific size, then that would avoid a lot of repeated work

[Hyphen-ated]

I don't think clicking the toggle is what specifically causes the other value to update

Yeah that's right, of course clicking elsewhere should update the value, that's needed for the preserve ratio feature to work at all. My proposal is to create specific handling to not update the value when the toggle is what you're clicking on.

Having the dialog remember its settings would be an improvement for sure. It wouldn't fully solve this issue though; like I use both modes very often, so sometimes the checkbox would remember being on when what I need this time is for it to be off.

[cameronwhite]

I'm not sure if it'd be possible to specifically handle the case of clicking on the toggle - I suspect we'd first get a notification about losing focus on the number entry, which would trigger an update to preserve the ratio

Moving the checkbox higher up before the size parameters seems reasonable to do though