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Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
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Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#362MS hasn't said they're going to remove it: [“Deprecated” Apps] ...are not in active development and might be removed in future releases [1] Its clearly not being actively developed, but there's no indication its going anywhere just yet. [1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4034825/features-th...
Perhaps similar to Notepad, which has been more or less feature-complete since Windows 2000 or so. I guess it is also internally "deprecated", but will continue to be shipped for quite a while. Microsoft doesn't tend to break such things. In Paint's case, I'd guess the most that will happen is that it will vanish from the Start menu, but the executable will still be there.
Actually I think Notepad got updated recently:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/6lpj7j/weve_rele...
> This update should not require you to have to reboot unless you happen to have Notepad.exe open. This update only revs the version of the OS and includes a updated binary version of Notepad.exe and nothing else.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#363Earlier quoted context omitted.
well people do complain, but i think the point is that windows has one UI framework (win32/user32) and (most) everyone uses that. It provides all of the primitives and norms that people expect
There are like 50 different toolkits... I exagerate, but: win32 GDI, windows.forms, MFCs, ATL and that is just from microsoft off the top of my head. There are way more when you start looking at all the solutions that a typical user might actually have running on their machine.
MFC, ATL, and the .NET stuff with the exception of XAML all use win32 controls under the hood. XAML still uses user32 albeit not the control toolkit. Because everything shares the same common core things work together better than on Linux.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#364Earlier quoted context omitted.
I remember dithered fills being in Paintbrush itself, using Windows 3.1. My memory is you had 16 colors to work with, and to get more than that it supported dithered colors. You could have, say, a red/yellow checkerboard. The UI let you treat these like other colors: you could save them, and draw with them. When you did that, each pixel in your BMP would be set to of the 16 allowed, but the overall impression would b…
I've actually used Windows 3.1. In Paintbrush you had palette of 20-ish colors, which were or were not dithered depending on whether they were displayable by your graphics adapter. (The default palette consisted of 16 default EGA/VGA colors and few dithered ones, with particularly notable burgundy-ish color that almost didn't look dithered). In the control panel you could set arbitrary 24b RGB colors for user interfa…
"I've actually used Windows 3.1"
God I feel old. Please tell me I'm not the only one who uses dosshell, or hacked gorilla.bas
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#365Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would you buy a phone without an earphone jack? Knock on wood that's something I'd never agree to do :-)
It was a mistake. I sometimes think about "upgrading" (downgrading) to a two year old iPhone 6s to get a headphone jack again but it is not available in 256gb.
Something like https://www.fuzecases.com any good?
I bought an SE rather than a 7 last year because of The headphone jack size issue.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#366Earlier quoted context omitted.
I still haven't found anything similar on Mac. It's the biggest thing I miss after making the switch. Preview is close, but still not the same. And Gimp, the usual recommendation, is far, far far far too heavyweight to be a valid comparison to Paint.
You don't need it on a mac. You can take a screenshot of a part of the screen only, and it saves it to an image on your desktop, you can send to anyone.
Anything similar to Paint in general, not just this specific use case. Paint covers a lot of uses that Preview doesn't.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#367OS X/MacOS doesn't have a "paint" analogue. So users have to run around and install a bunch of things or buy things to replace it. It's a PIA on new systems, and I still am not quite sure what a good new user replacement is.
Years ago when I first learned GUI programming, a simple paint application was the 2nd or 3rd example given.
I hope they replace it with something, I consider such a tool an essential part of any modern GUI OS.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#368This is silliness. I Win+R, mspaint at least 10 times a day. I paste in screenshots and quickly cut out just a portion of them. Or leave the screenshot there for later review. Why don't they just remove the file browser? Or how about mouse support?
They aren't removing it, they are deprecating it.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#369Earlier quoted context omitted.
> And yes, I still miss my 1/8" jack on my iphone. Every single day. I'm very curious -- anything thoughts on what will be your next phone? Iphone again, or branching out to new 1/8" jack pastures?
your tone suggests one's preferences should be dictated by a corporation's interests; it's perfectly reasonable that the 1/8" jack solves problems for the user that the lightning jack does not solve. Even if they don't even include a 1/8" jack on future products, it could still have been preferable from the individual point of view.
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Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#370Earlier quoted context omitted.
I did the same until I discovered that windows has built in snippet tool. Try it out.
You can't draw circles and arrows, etc in that tool though. I need to point out the obvious sometimes. Well, actually most times.
Yes you can. It has a pen tool built into the Snippet app.