Kid Pix as a JavaScript App • Hacker News Board

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by amatecha » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 6:33 PM UTC

graderjs wrote: post #5

BTW I love this code: https://kidpix.app/js/app.js repo here: https://github.com/vikrum/kidpix

Nice, good to see some plain old JS for once (not even minified either). No heavy UI framework(s). The entire app loads in like 150kb of network transfers. Great work!

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by peterburkimsher » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 6:38 PM UTC

scottrogowski wrote: post #30

Oh man this brings back memories. I must have been 6 years old. My dad came home with a computer that they were getting rid of at his work. He set it up that night and, having never seen a computer, I wanted to play with it. Well, for some reason, it had Kid Pix installed. I remember drawing something with a couple of green lines and a few rabbit stamps for good measure. As I recall, I then insisted that we had to pr…

You had colour! Back in my day... ;-)

Really though, similar story here: my dad brought back an LC III and Color StyleWriter 2400, and before long I was drawing rocket ships and poo.

I realised that my pictures looked better in LogoWriter than drawn freehand in Kid Pix. And now I ended up writing software!

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by vikrum » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 6:54 PM UTC

nkingsy wrote: post #43

Avshalom wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

unfortunately I can't seem to freeze the dynamite.

yeah I seem to remember being able to make it stay on the screen if you start another action.

[edit] - Give it a try now; press ctrl during the animation to stop it.

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by todd3834 » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 7:10 PM UTC

Thank you so much for making this! The sound effects take me back. I've been hoping to find something like this for my daughter to experience a fun paint program like I had.

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by opan » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 7:18 PM UTC

Octopodes wrote: post #41

what is the legality of this website? I don't see anything indicating that it's an official port.

>JS Kid Pix / Kid Pix 1.0 was released in to the public domain and this is an HTML/JS reimplementation.

source: https://github.com/vikrum/kidpix

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by Avshalom » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 7:32 PM UTC

vikrum wrote: post #53

nkingsy wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah I seem to remember being able to make it stay on the screen if you start another action.

[edit] - Give it a try now; press ctrl during the animation to stop it.

WHEEEE!

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by neovive » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 7:53 PM UTC

Wow! I remember Kid Pix! The Wacky Brush implementation is excellent!!

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 7:58 PM UTC

Related/unrelated discussion about another kids drawing experience, but this time on a console system: Mario Paint https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28065357

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by Waterluvian » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 7:59 PM UTC

graderjs wrote: post #5

BTW I love this code: https://kidpix.app/js/app.js repo here: https://github.com/vikrum/kidpix

Has anyone had any luck using this classic style of JS namespacing in a way where their editor understands it when populating code completion?

I love rollup, uglify-js, etc. for this kind of thing: just concatenate all the modules into one JS file and ship it as-is.

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 7:59 PM UTC

1--6zVa-E wrote: post #48

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #39

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ohhh, was it mainly a Mac thing? PC-focus over here. Still think I would have heard of it

It was on the Windows desktops in my schools.

Interesting. The go-to was MS Paint that I ever saw, because of course it was already included. My side point was also thought that I've never even heard people mention Kid Pix until now. But have heard about other legendary things like Printshop etc etc