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Re: MSPaint in JavaScript

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Post by microcolonel »

mrtksn wrote: post #15

Ah, this could be used as the missing paint in macOS. Even taking a screenshot and dragging it inside the browser works as expected. Is there an easy wat to turn this into an app that can live locally? Paint is the only thing I miss about Windows.

Normal MS Paint runs fine in Wine, I know somebody who uses it regularly.

Re: MSPaint in JavaScript

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Post by chapium »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #30

This is totally something that I could live with being an Electron app on Linux. Yes, I should be using GIMP/Krita/Other community FOSS solution, but gosh darnit, sometimes I just wanna make a 20-second markup on a screenshot, and I wanna use the friggin' program that I have a 20-year muscle memory for!

My preferred mspaint workflow:

1. Screenshot thing with screenshot rectangle selector (Win+S on OneNote 2013)

2. Draw red circles and arrows all over it

3. Repeat #1 on mspaint canvas

4. Paste screenshot with annotations to whatever I need pasting it to.

Re: MSPaint in JavaScript

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Post by dansman805 »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #30

This is totally something that I could live with being an Electron app on Linux. Yes, I should be using GIMP/Krita/Other community FOSS solution, but gosh darnit, sometimes I just wanna make a 20-second markup on a screenshot, and I wanna use the friggin' program that I have a 20-year muscle memory for!

Specifically for screenshot markup, I recommend using flameshot (https://flameshot.js.org/#/). It allows you to markup the screenshot right as you take it.

Re: MSPaint in JavaScript

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Post by thrower123 »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #30

This is totally something that I could live with being an Electron app on Linux. Yes, I should be using GIMP/Krita/Other community FOSS solution, but gosh darnit, sometimes I just wanna make a 20-second markup on a screenshot, and I wanna use the friggin' program that I have a 20-year muscle memory for!

Greenshot is my weapon of choice for that. Hit Print Screen, drag a box of what you want to capture, open in editor and annotate away

https://getgreenshot.org/

Re: MSPaint in JavaScript

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Post by RodgerTheGreat »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #30

This is totally something that I could live with being an Electron app on Linux. Yes, I should be using GIMP/Krita/Other community FOSS solution, but gosh darnit, sometimes I just wanna make a 20-second markup on a screenshot, and I wanna use the friggin' program that I have a 20-year muscle memory for!

Kolourpaint is a pretty decent linux-based alternative to MSPaint. Same simple featureset and straightforward UI, with the nice added touch of support for transparency.

Re: MSPaint in JavaScript

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Post by Nux »

dansman805 wrote: post #33
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #30

This is totally something that I could live with being an Electron app on Linux. Yes, I should be using GIMP/Krita/Other community FOSS solution, but gosh darnit, sometimes I just wanna make a 20-second markup on a screenshot, and I wanna use the friggin' program that I have a 20-year muscle memory for!

Specifically for screenshot markup, I recommend using flameshot ( https://flameshot.js.org/#/ ). It allows you to markup the screenshot right as you take it.

Flameshot is sluggish and bloated. If you want the same functionality and more, but fast, try Shutter.

Re: MSPaint in JavaScript

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Post by mrtksn »

Fnoord wrote: post #29
mrtksn wrote: post #15

Ah, this could be used as the missing paint in macOS. Even taking a screenshot and dragging it inside the browser works as expected. Is there an easy wat to turn this into an app that can live locally? Paint is the only thing I miss about Windows.

Are there not image manipulation programs on macOS to your liking?

The advanced once are phenomenal but when I need something very simple Preview or Markup doesn't cut it and the advanced ones are overkill.

For example, I want to create a very basic image where I would use other images and screenshots and I would cover something to hide, resize some of the images I use and put a few words of text to indicate something.

This is so very easy in MS Paint. The app will open in 0.1s, you will configure the size of your canvas by dragging the dot in the corner, copy-paste your images and drag and resize them by moving the dots then you can select and delete the parts you don't want and when you are happy with your arrangements you will use the rectangle drawing tool to cover some places and the text to mark the places you want to mark. Everything is fast, you don't have to think about layers, masks, vectors or anything like that and the app is very responsive.

Preview has some tools but they are cumbersome to use and there's no way to bring in other images.

Re: MSPaint in JavaScript

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Post by mrtksn »

jchw wrote: post #27
mrtksn wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's something special about MS Paint. It feels so natural to use it, the way it works makes sense. These similar products feel works for some reason. On macOS and Linux, we lack the basic graphics editor.

Have you tried Kolourpaint? It is pretty similar to MS Paint.

No, I have not. It looks promising but I suspect that there are some poor defaults in the tools leading to bad results aesthetically. Looked at some usage videos and there were some very ugly rectangle corners.

See, for the tools in MS Paint are very basic and have very nice defaults so it usually yields non-disturbing results. Good defaults are important.

Re: MSPaint in JavaScript

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Post by duckerude »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #30

This is totally something that I could live with being an Electron app on Linux. Yes, I should be using GIMP/Krita/Other community FOSS solution, but gosh darnit, sometimes I just wanna make a 20-second markup on a screenshot, and I wanna use the friggin' program that I have a 20-year muscle memory for!

MS Paint itself can run in Wine. I believe you can install it with winetricks.
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