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CRT
Registered: Oct 2012
Posts: 87 |
Release id #122077 : Pixcen
Hi all!
I'm opening this forum for Pixcen. Please post your feature requests and bug reports here if possible to keep the comment section clean(er).
As of this weekend (2013/10/12) I have hopefully fixed a crash (as reported by Dr.Science & Bamse), changed some menu items and implemented mirror/flip, shift and rotate on selected areas. To be uploaded. |
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grasstust
Registered: Apr 2007
Posts: 43 |
Requests:
- Shift clicking a pixel on screen = select that color
- Native OS X version. :) |
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FATFrost
Account closed
Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 211 |
Yes an osx version would be great... |
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CRT
Registered: Oct 2012
Posts: 87 |
New version up. If you have internet connection you should get a popup and a download option.
-Fixed a crash when missing internet connection.
-Added source code download link under help menu.
-New selection menu with options to rotate, flip and shift pixels within selected area.
-New Auto-selection mode available under Edit menu. Great for char/block mode.
Also, forgot to add to the log. SHIFT+left click will pick the color as grasstust wished for. |
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grasstust
Registered: Apr 2007
Posts: 43 |
Excellent! Thank you for including my request! I have now started using Pixcen. (Through Virtualbox).
A couple of things:
1. I would like to have something else than the arrow when I paint - being able to choose the form of the mouse-pointer would be great! Can you make a crosshair? And a simple point? And a pencil?
2. When introducing a (illegal) 4th colour by clicking on the 3 others, the colour clicked will be replaced with new one in that 4 x 8 square. This is annoying. You should simply not be allowed to use the 4th color, imho.
3. Flip vertically now flips horisontally and flip horisontally flips vertically.
4. Can I turn off the "CELL"-window? I find it disturbing and distracting. I would actually also like to turn off the color-window. I know which colour I selected (with shift-clicking), and never need to check.
5. Can you tell me exactly why I should save something in Pixcen file format and not koala? Is there a practical difference?
6. It's irritating that the preview window does not update before releasing the mousebutton. I often watch the preview window when painting in the edit window and sometimes when I'm doing a fill it's irritating that I can't see the result before letting go of the mouse pointer.
7. Clicking in the preview window should move the edit window to that position.
+ GREAT to have the flip option!
+ Great that you can copy something pixel by pixel, and not just every square.
Thank you for what is really becoming a great tool! |
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Shine
Registered: Jul 2012
Posts: 327 |
Quoting grasstust
2. When introducing a (illegal) 4th colour by clicking on the 3 others, the colour clicked will be replaced with new one in that 4 x 8 square. This is annoying. You should simply not be allowed to use the 4th color, imho.
I would like to see that this might be choosable in options, if a color need to replaced or not. |
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grasstust
Registered: Apr 2007
Posts: 43 |
8: An autosave feature would be very nice!
9. How about being able to open more than one pic at a time? Would be nice to be able to copy something from one pic to another. |
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Shine
Registered: Jul 2012
Posts: 327 |
As is wrote in my pm to you:
1. Shortcut to 100% view
2. Exchange one color with another color in whole picture (or selected areas) (color1[x,y]:=color2[x,y])
3. Show amount of used uniqe chars |
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CRT
Registered: Oct 2012
Posts: 87 |
Thanks for the comments and inputs!
@grasstust & @Shine:
Different options on how to handle color overflow are planned (overwrite, ignore, fill, etc). Actually there are already some code for it but it's not enabled.
@grasstust & @FATFrost:
A native OS-X version or Linux version is currently far off. I would have to rewrite all the GUI from scratch. Perhaps as a version 2 in the future.
@grasstust:
Different arrows/cursors are planned.
I will have to check the horizontal alignment with the vertical direction :-)
I can make the cell window optional with a toggle under view.
The GPX format is already saving a few extra settings as well as some undo history. It can also save odd sized images, chars, sprites or hires. But if you exclusively work in multicolor bitmap/koala you are of course free to load and save in koala format.
The preview window will get an overhaul soon (Creeper have been asking for it too): Scroll, zoom, PAL and NTSC emulation. The slow update was made with performance in mind. Internally Pixcen stores the graphics in more or less VIC2 format. Fefreshing the views are a bit expensive on slower systems but I do have some ideas how to solve it.
Autosave is a good idea!
Multiple pictures: You can already open a second Pixcen and copy/paste between. But perhaps an MDI view mode would be better. I will consider it some more.
@Shine:
100% view and even some overhaul of the view scrolling will be implemented.
A color/mask remapping is planned.
Number of unique chars used is available in char mode (look at the bottom status bar). You can convert a bitmap/hires to chars by switching mode under the "Mode" menu. Don't forget to save first as a mode switch will kill undo history and destructive color conversions can happen. Multi-color char mode is currently limited to 3 color + background but I have plans for color RAM / mixed single color mode as well.
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Last night I got single color sprite mode working. Multi-color sprites will follow. This, a lot of other fixes and features should be ready by the next weekend. |
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grasstust
Registered: Apr 2007
Posts: 43 |
Sounds good to me! Keep it up!
Oh, one more feature request: When marking an area and pressing BACK SPACE, I would like to fill that area with the background color. |
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Shine
Registered: Jul 2012
Posts: 327 |
<REQ>
Copy & Paste:
What about a "background" color which is "transparent"?
If i copy a rectangle area the background color is replaced too. But it would be better if i could choose a transparent background color during copy & paste. |
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