These always miss my favorite hidden feature of mspaint: Control + Scrolling should be able to increase/decrease the size of the brush to sizes much larger than you can normally select. Instead, this just zooms the browser but maybe it could be changed to alt + scroll or something.
XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
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Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#42There is also https://jspaint.app/
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#43This version of MS Paint is like the peak example of covering 99% of basic use cases while being incredibly simple to use. Whenever I need to make an arbitrary image real quick I miss this version of Paint. Nothing else I can find in 2020 even comes close to its intuitive interface.
> I miss this version of Paint Well you are in luck: https://archive.org/details/MSPaintWinXP I use this all the time on my Windows 10 box. Just download, rename to "mspaintxp.exe" and put it in C:\Windows\System32. Optionally update Paint shortcut to point to that one so when you type "Paint" in start menu that's the new default.
In fact, you don't need to go to all this trouble if you don't want to. Someone has made a web-based version of paint you can use right from your browser, even if you don't have Windows installed. Link: https://chowderman.github.io/xp-paint.html
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#44Looks like this is a fork of https://jspaint.app/
What is the difference between those two?
The main differences are:
* it works totally offline (it performs no XHR requests and none of the libraries are linked to CDNs or other sites)
* is contained within a single ~1 MB in size .html file (I baked all images, scripts, style sheets, etc. within a single file)
* is lighter, as I removed some features to keep it closer to the original (but kept a few like the history and rendering as a GIF)
* is Win XP themed instead of Win 95
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
you know it! It had a sleek and modern look for the time, while still having the simplicity and user-friendliness of MS Paint from Win 95/98. really wish this version of paint was still supported in Win 10
Surely it can be packed as an Electron app?
It can be packed very easily actually! It is a single HTML file, so you can easily embed it into an electron app or a webview if you wanted. Only problem is it would bring the total size to ~100 MB instead of ~1 MB, and would be tough to make it a single .exe file.
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I miss this version of Paint Well you are in luck: https://archive.org/details/MSPaintWinXP I use this all the time on my Windows 10 box. Just download, rename to "mspaintxp.exe" and put it in C:\Windows\System32. Optionally update Paint shortcut to point to that one so when you type "Paint" in start menu that's the new default.
In fact, you don't need to go to all this trouble if you don't want to. Someone has made a web-based version of paint you can use right from your browser, even if you don't have Windows installed. Link: https://chowderman.github.io/xp-paint.html
That's awesome! Someone should post this on HN.
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#47Is you like MS Paint art then you should check out Jim'll Paint It ( https://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/ - also on facebook). He takes requests.
That's... an unfortunate name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#48If you don't like the display scaling, you can try running this in the browser console:
document.body.style.zoom = 1 / window.devicePixelRatioRe: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#49This version of MS Paint is like the peak example of covering 99% of basic use cases while being incredibly simple to use. Whenever I need to make an arbitrary image real quick I miss this version of Paint. Nothing else I can find in 2020 even comes close to its intuitive interface.
Isn't mspaint in Windows 10 basically the same thing but with a ribbon instead of a toolbar? I don't much care for the ribbon but I'm used to it now. Hitting WinKey-R, mspaint, [Enter] is still my goto for simple picture editing, even just recording a screenshot despite the existence of the snipping tool... Other than the minor annoyance of getting used to the ribbon I felt as if I was still using the same old paint…
I immediately searched for the XP version the first time I encountered this extremely frustrating behaviour:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10...
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#50This version of MS Paint is like the peak example of covering 99% of basic use cases while being incredibly simple to use. Whenever I need to make an arbitrary image real quick I miss this version of Paint. Nothing else I can find in 2020 even comes close to its intuitive interface.
> I miss this version of Paint Well you are in luck: https://archive.org/details/MSPaintWinXP I use this all the time on my Windows 10 box. Just download, rename to "mspaintxp.exe" and put it in C:\Windows\System32. Optionally update Paint shortcut to point to that one so when you type "Paint" in start menu that's the new default.
Me too, along with calc.exe --- starting with Win7, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791667 among other issues appeared, and then in Win10, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17670644
It's really sad that one of the world's biggest software companies can't make a fully-working calculator.