1:1 MSPaint clone - not ? but !

[GoBusto]

I think what you mean is not a question of compatiblity, but a question of presenting a user interface people are familar with. By rebuilding things that nobody knows or even nobody wants, we make the whole thing useless.

However I've now (re-)implemented the undo / redo functions, so that they are working perfectly now.
One more time the link to the exe:
http://www.freenet-homepage.de/meinstuss/Projekt1.exe

Another small bug (or possibly an unintentional feature):

+ Hold down the RIGHT mouse button when using the pen tool.
+ While still holding the RIGHT mouse button down, hold down the LEFT mouse button.
+ Move the mouse somewhere else on the canvas.
+ Release the LEFT mouse button.
+ A straight line is drawn from the point at which the LEFT mouse button was held down to the current mouse location.

This behaviour will continue until the right mouse button is released.

EDIT: One other thing: In MSPaint (under Windows Server 2008, at least), the Tools and Colours toolbars can be clicked and dragged so that they can be moved around. It would be nice if your project could do this too.

[Black_Fox]

Hi gyROS, for the first C and WinAPI program it's more than great! I didn't test it much, as I know it's not yet complete, but from the complete features I noticed two things: When you take e.g. a brush and then click on the canvas, the brush icon changes into a normal cursor until you move the mouse (that doesn't happen in original Paint). Secondly, I know that for many years Paint had 3 undo steps, but in Vista it was increased to 10. That's just minor things though, keep up the good work!

[ironek69]

Looks like, there is still some work to do, but for now it looks awesome . Would be a great addition to Reactos.

[Phalanx]

I know, i addle the adour about the paint clon, but the new paint(under Windows 7) use Ribbon.
It is not a long time to support Ribbons.

No Ribbon UI please.
if you ask why, please look this:
http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2008/06/ ... he-ribbon/

You will find that is a case of how it's used in that program, not the ribbon itself. Also some apps just don't suit it. You would not use it in a game, explorer etc... Office 2007 use of the ribbon was one of the main reasons I have changed to it, and found it a massive production boost. Spent the money over OO.org for that reason.

[Ged]

Although Phalanx is completley correct (you can't compare acad with paint), it's a moot point anyway was we don't support ribbons.
Modern user interface elements are part of .NET or the 2008 MFC libs. Without these, you're stuck with what comctl32 can do.

btw, the new ribbon styled paint app in Windows 7 is awesome

[LRN]

Why do i have a feeling that ReactOS doesn't need its own Paint clone, or any raster (or vector) graphic editor for that matter?

[gyROS]

I'm sorry, but I didn't have much time for replies the last two days.
In post order:

@GoBusto:
Thank you, but I already know this one, at the moment the right button functionality is just a copy of the left button functionality, the abort by clicking the other button function (as in MSPAINT) is not yet implemented.

@Black_Fox:
You might have noticed, that MSPaint also uses different cursors for each tool, so I decided not to fix it until I implement that.

@LRN

Why do i have a feeling that ReactOS doesn't need its own Paint clone, or any raster (or vector) graphic editor for that matter?

Mmh... Maybe because ReactOS is far from complete itself? But keep in mind: If people don't feel responsible for that and change it, it will stay in this stage forever. You have to start somewhere, and sometimes it are the details you start with.

[Kario]

it's cool, keep it up!
... and give us souces e.g. for improve and translations

[gyROS]

Oh, you're right!

Once it's more or less beta you'll get the full source including all the icons and cursors under the terms of at least the LGPL, maybe the GPL.
It's good that you mention localization.
Can you tell me how to use external resource files for this purpose (as most ROS progs do)? Maybe a link?
Thank you.

[hto]

Can you tell me how to use external resource files for this purpose (as most ROS progs do)? Maybe a link?

Look at some ReactOS app, such as Calculator.

Denken kostet nichts!

But a good thought can be priceless. :)

[The123king]

I would at least like to see an english translation of it. Nice program by the way

A couple of things:
It would be nice to see a way of resizing the image using tag-like bits like in MS paint. (particularly for cropping, maybe make it so you can resize using all 4 sides instead of the 2 in MS Paint)
The zooming in/out method using the mouse buttons is perfect. I'm not sure that's a feature in MS Paint but it's a cracking one anyway.
Maybe incorporate a zoom using the mouse wheel no matter what tool you're using...?


Tested said Paint program under MS Windows XP SP3

Edit: i've encounted a few drawing problems under XP... Sometimes when using the zoom, the image dissapears until you use the scrollbar or zoom again. It also "fixes" itself when you minimise or click another window

[be59]

So i think, if this programm will be better than now, it must be to ROS.

[The123king]

So i think, if this programm will be better than now, it must be to ROS.

Once all the bugs go i might in fact replace MS paint with it on my PC

[gyROS]

I thought about the following order:

1. finishing the rectangular selection tool, including select all
2. implementing copy/cut to clipboard
3. opening a possibility for changing image size
4. load/save and insert
5. the custom dialogs
6. bezier and drawpoly
- opening the source (otherwise translating into x languages could become difficult) -
I'll try to come here as fast as possible
7. localization
8. bugfixes

[vicmarcal]

thanks Gyro, when advancing give us info about in which number you are and how goes