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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 vortico »

computerex wrote: post #249
vortico wrote: post #8

I love how the filesystem stuff is handled! Very smooth, with Open/Save acting like a native application.

It's not acting like a native application, the open file dialog is the native open file dialog that'll display differently depending on the OS/platform you're on.

Right, but many websites have a "Browse for file..." or Import/Export popup which then launches the native file dialog, or the Save function opens the image in a new tab or something. They're making it as close as technically possible to MSPaint's behavior.

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

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Post by earenndil »

kuschku wrote: post #170
laurent123456 wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> until the present web fads go away I don't see that happening. Web apps gave us an environment where it's easy to create complex applications quickly. Now efforts are going towards making these apps smaller and faster, but I don't see developers going back to C++ to develop GUI apps like this one.

Java gave us an environment where it was easy to create complex applications quickly as well. The web will fade away just like Java did.

Java...hasn't faded away, though. It's slightly less popular than it once was, granted, but it's still insanely popular.

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

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Post by KennyCason »

This is amazing! Superb remake. :)

I’m happy and sad. Happy because MS Paint is amazing and now having it in web form is great. Sad because I was just talking about doing this this week for hackathon. I ultimately did something else, and probably wouldn’t have turned out this great.

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

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

wetpaws wrote: post #222
colordrops wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you only use it once yeah. I'm super casual and just use it for cropping and resizing and whatnot, and have used it dozens of times. Worth 20-30 minutes.

I am a digital artist and I've been using Photoshop since 2000s. I still find it infinitely more comfortable to open mspaint and do quick resizing or image editing there. When I forced to use gimp I simultaneously want to a) kill myself b) kill developers of gimp and their family members.

Well, it depends on what you're used to. Although I'm just a casual user, I've been using GIMP for years, and had similar feelings to yours when I had to use Photoshop once.

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

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Post by 1j01 »

ngharo wrote: post #209
wybiral wrote: post #16

Neat, there's a multi-user mode: http://jspaint.ml/#session:test

This is fun. Try drawing programmatically: tools[7].paint(ctx, x, y); then run: $canvas.trigger('change.session-hook'); to flush your canvas changes to the server.

To do it "properly", wrap it in `undoable`, then you don't need use `trigger`, and you can undo it normally. :)

    undoable(function(){
        for(var i = 0; i
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