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JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake

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Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake

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Post by 1j01 »

yots wrote: post #158
barbs wrote: post #5

I haven't used Windows as a primary OS for years. I miss having MSPaint around for small edits, and have yet to find a suitable replacement. Other apps either have too few features (e.g. Preview) or too many (GIMP), or the interface doesn't feel right. It might just be because I'm used to it after using it for years when I was younger, but MSPaint's interface just makes sense, and it hits the sweet spot of features f…

Were you (or anyone) able to change the brush size? (I'm pretty sure it used to be + on Windows, but it's been a while)

It's Ctrl+NumpadPlus/Minus on mspaint, or just NumpadPlus/Minus on jspaint; no way to do it beyond the preset sizes without a numpad, so far, I'm afraid

Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake

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Post by 1j01 »

aj7 wrote: post #17

The most valuable thing to me about MS Paint is the ability to print screen, CROP the largely extraneous material, and post, embed, or transmit the result. Where is crop? I am not interested in the drawing with a bar of soap aspect. At all.

I made it crop the image if you make a selection while holding Ctrl. It's not how it's done in any version of mspaint, but I considered it useful enough.

Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake

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Post by 1j01 »

usernam wrote: post #214
estima wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Best feature of this app I feel is live sharing like: http://jspaint.ml/#session:abc sessions are shared in real time

Interestingly, it seems to lose 1/3 of the inputs I'm trying to send...

Yeah, it's super half baked. I can tell you that as the developer. I plan to focus on collaboration in the successor to this project, Mopaint: https://github.com/1j01/mopaint

(Rather than adding it after the fact.)

Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake

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Post by Cyberspy »

dingo_bat wrote: post #39
badsectoracula wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and have yet to find a suitable replacement There are a few, Kolourpaint is pretty much an MSPaint clone for KDE [1] and Paintbrush is the macOS equivalent [2]. There is also Gnome Paint [3], but hasn't seen any update in years. I suppose the closest would be Pinta [4], although that is slightly above MS Paint on the complexity level (probably more comparable to Paint.NET than MS Paint). > I'm not sure how I feel a…

> actual editing feels very slow - painting something takes almost a second to update with the brush being very jumpy, reminding me using ZSoft's PhotoFinish on Windows 3.1 on my 4MB 386:-P. Works as fast as native paint on my laptop. What browser are you using?

Works really on Chrome on Windows 10, on a 3 year old laptop!

Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake

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Post by Sammi »

barbs wrote: post #5

I haven't used Windows as a primary OS for years. I miss having MSPaint around for small edits, and have yet to find a suitable replacement. Other apps either have too few features (e.g. Preview) or too many (GIMP), or the interface doesn't feel right. It might just be because I'm used to it after using it for years when I was younger, but MSPaint's interface just makes sense, and it hits the sweet spot of features f…

Yeah try Lazpaint: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazpaint/

Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake

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Post by 1j01 »

needz wrote: post #225

I don't understand why it needs to hijack the back button.

It changes the URL to store the image in a specific session, so if you close the tab by accident you can reopen it from history (or ctrl+shift+t in some browsers)

I've opened an issue for it now here: https://github.com/1j01/jspaint/issues/49

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