Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Comments about some magic tools

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 06:57:02PM +0200, Pere Pujal i Carabantes wrote:
> Folder: Can be improved if click is used to select the corner, then drag
> to were he want the corner go, do some calculation about how a sheet
> should be plyed to get the corner there. You also can do a rough
> "preview" like flower does. Then, in mouse release, draw it.

Good idea!


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> Black and white: Can be converted to "color and white" just picking the
> color like other magic tools do. The same is valid for threshold.

Also a good idea!


> Flower, just noticed this: if you draw a horizontal flower you don't get
> leafs.

That's a design issue. :)  But I guess I can add a bug report about it,
and see what we can do, some day. :)


> Jigsaw, works right at 800x600, but at 640x480 I get pieces cutted at
> the edge, and in bigger screens, the jigsaw is covering just the 800x600
> topleft portion of the image

Andrew has just gone ahead and created a pair of Jigsaw starter images.
We discussed how he could implement a Magic tool that paints the
Jigsaw pieces onto the image, similar to how Bricks works.


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> An idea for new magic tools:
> I've been always fascined by those animations were a plant grows from
> zero, or a flower opens, or clouds running accross the sky, etc. Theese
> can be implemented in two ways:
> 
> a)  A sequence of some images, starting on mouse click, showing the next
> image each second and drawing the image present on mouse release.
> Depending on the animations, they can be positioned on mouse click or
> aligned to a edge of the draw

Right now there's no way to fire off timer-based events like this
using the Magic Tool API.  Perhaps we can consider this in the future.

I think we have enough things to iron out in the meantime, though!


> b)  A computed animation like some screensavers do, starting on mouse
> click and ending on mouse release. Even the direction of the animation
> (when possible) can be controlled on mouse drag.

I'm not 100% sure I understand this one.  Have you looked at the animated
and directional brushes with the Paint and Line tools?  The cat, for example,
has different frames of it running around, and it leaves a trail of cats
that chase your mouse pointer. :)

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