Oh my! This even has the secret x10 zoom! That's awesome. :)
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
#52How where you able to implement such a fast floodfill? I tried to make something similar a few years ago, but was not able to get the floodfilling to work in reasonably time
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#53How where you able to implement such a fast floodfill? I tried to make something similar a few years ago, but was not able to get the floodfilling to work in reasonably time
Here's the source code for draw_fill: https://github.com/chowderman/xp-paint/blob/b6dfcce7f449d3bb...
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#54Nice work! It would be great if you could include a feature to crop an image, similar to how you can in MS Paint. Crop is the feature I probably use most often in MS Paint.
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#55This 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…
Win Vista and later paint replaces the palette of a 256 color bitmap with a completely different one upon saving, to name a major and breaking difference. I grabbed the paint.exe from an old XP and it works absolutely fine, even on 7 and probably 10.
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#56As much as I enjoy this, I feel for it to really shine would be a desktop version, not locked into the browser. I think a Chromium/Electron app would be fine.
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#57This 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.
If you need just a bit more functionality, I find Paint.NET to be quite good while not too complex.
Yep. It's not at the level of Photoshop but it does a pretty good chunk of the intermediate-level features that you might need for more complex projects (e.g. layers)
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#58This 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.
Unfortunately I transitioned to Mac a few years ago so it isn't just drop in and done.
Paintbrush was the closest thing I could find here, but it glitches out on me occasionally and the UI isn't as simple. I may just take the 20 minutes to do what you recommended under Wine. Thanks!
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#59As much as I enjoy this, I feel for it to really shine would be a desktop version, not locked into the browser. I think a Chromium/Electron app would be fine.
I couldn't disagree more. An entire electron app just for mspaint? That's ridiculous.
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
It's similar but in my opinion with every release Microsoft makes their products slightly more unintuitive. This version of Paint is far simpler to view and instantly know what to click to get what you want.
Similar to you, "discoverability" is what irks me about MS trend recently.
As you say, the version you can "view and instantly know" = easy to discover what/how you can do.
A lot of MS stuff recently seems to have forgotten that people need visual cues to "know" what to do.