Just a fun side project I decided to pick up. Phase 1 is recreating the Windows XP MSPaint in its efficient and minimalistic glory before the ribbon ruined it. However there will be underlying infrastructure to support layers and transparencies. Phase 2 I'll create an advanced mode where I will start adding useful photoshop-like features.



_{Note: I am aware of Paint.NET. This is mostly just a fun project for me. Additionally, I'll have the benefit of adding my own features in the future on whims.}

I am so excited about this. Very cool.

Ha, looks cool.

Looking at this brings back all those wonderful MS paint memories. Hmm, Blake paint... Something tells me that this will be awesome.

Sounds good. The only thing paint is good for id resizing images.

anti: you obviously haven't seen Blake's tutorials.

I don't blame Anti, not everybody goes on NP.

Yay Blake!

Shhhhhhhhh!

NP is full of viruses and evil and pedophiles and ice cream. Except without the ice cream.

^{Nobody is supposed to know! NP is a safe haven!}

No ice cream? Gosh, I was lied to. :(

Weren't we all? Now go back to your cage.

MY cage has a teddy. Be jealous.

I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with this, Blake.

So that's where my teddy is. Give it back.

personally, I prefer vector graphics, but I'll try this out once you're finished.

Wow, someone working at Microsoft just said that the ribbon ruined something? You should be involved in more projects.

Anyway, seems like a nice project. Will it be open source?

Blake doesn't actually work at Microsoft any more.

I'd love it if it was open source, or free at the least.

What is MSPaint programmed in?

Can't we just share?

Blake doesn't work at Microsoft anymore? /curious

Yup. He works for the big G now.

Ooh. Nice.

I left Microsoft on August 12th.
Microsoft's MSPaint is written in C++, as far as I know.
I am writing this in C#.
The reason the move to the ribbon destroyed mspaint was not because of the ribbon itself, but the fact that the ribbon is now the only way to access certain features. Many shortcut keys were removed (such as Ctrl + F for fullscreen) or reconfigured to less useful features (Such as Ctrl + R bringing up rulers instead of rotating an image, which now has no shortcut key), and some features were removed outright (Inverting colors, which was very useful for many of the hacks I use in my mspaint tutorials such as the one I'm posting tonight).

I think we should honor august 12 as a national holiday. BTW, why didn't you use O'hareian time?

For clarity, I'd assume.

Ah right, TCaS

Both sites use O'Harean exclusively. August 12th is Cresco 8:3, for those that are confused by Gregorian.

I have added:

• Undo stack
• Image resizing
• File Saving

Those don't really sound like key features, but infrastructurally they were the "harder" problems that would influence design choices of later features the most, so I started with those.

Moving on to the pencil and brush...

I want to try this...

Now all I have to do is wait........ This is boring. Hmm... Oh well, can't wait until it's finished.

Will it be easily portable to the Mono platform?