Rick Brewster

This should be fixed up in 4.1.7, thanks to @null54

Is F: a removable drive? If so, you can't install to it.

Okay thanks for the video and the image! I'll look into this for 4.1.7, and I'll reply to this post when it's resolved

Can you also attach the image that you're using?

I'm planning to add HEIC support in 4.1.7. It will require that you have Windows 10 v1809+ installed, as it has the HEIC codec built-in. I'm currently migrating many of the other file types from GDI+ to WIC, and once that's done it shouldn't be too difficult to add HEIC support. Saving HEIC files may need to wait for Windows 10 v19H1 or whatever the next big update is. And, just to be clear, Windows 7 and 8.1 will not be able to work with HEIC files in 4.1.7. They do not have the WIC codec for HEIC.

If you can make a video to show this, that would help a lot. You won't necessarily get the same results with Image->Resize vs. Move Selected Pixels if what you're selecting and transforming is not the entire image.

I'm sure your readers can figure things out from your screenshots with the old icons. Update if someone expresses frustration. Until then, have faith in your readers' abilities. Maybe include a note saying the icons were updated in March 2019 and you're still updating the screenshots. I'm not going to hold back because of a book/tutorial, especially one that nobody told me about. There is no contract that says the icons will remain static. Software changes, y'all should know that by now. Anyway this topic is done. It's been answered. Any further posts on this will be closed.

Make sure to look for PaintDotNet.exe in the Details tab of Task Manager.

You cannot remove this dialog. If you want "open the image" (not archive), that's the default option, so just press enter.

Yes, I'm fully aware of all of this. "Extracting" the source code isn't actually that simple. You can study it in a disassembly with dotPeek or Reflector, but you won't really be able to make changes and rebuild it. Even if you tell it to emit a directory structure full of .CS files.

I've got an idea for something that may be able to fix this... no promises, it's speculative, but it would be in 4.1.7 if it does work since it should be easy.

You can use ClipSpy ( https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/168/ClipSpy ) to check out what's actually on the clipboard It's an ooooooollllllllddddddddd tool but still totally works. I can supply binaries if you need, it might only have the source code up at that link. From there, I can tell you whether the black is turning into transparent because of normal clipboard ambiguity (a Windows design flaw), or because of something Paint.NET is doing wrong.

I'll look into this for the next update ... you may get blurrier cursors in 4.1.7 but at least they'll be the right size.

Scaling the pointers is actually very easy for to do in the code. However, they would be blurry. It may be better than being tiny though ... The reason they're tiny at 175% is that I've code them to scale with respect to the integer floor of the scaling. This avoids blurring (via bilinear resampling) or objective ugliness (via nearest neighbor). The floor of 1.75 is 1.0, so you get the original size. If you were at 200% then the cursors would be doubled in size (with respect to pixels).

There are some bugs with the error handling here that I'm planning to address in 4.1.7. If it's stuck at "Finishing..." for a really long time, and it's not using any CPU in Task Manager, nor any disk, then ... it's a zombie. Seems to happen more on low-memory systems, or if the disk is bad or out of space.

Well, we can see how it goes I do get requests for a Mac version on occasion and I just say "sorry but you can use Parallels/VMWhatever". This gives me a more concrete tutorial to link to.

Install your Windows Updates Easy, and free.

As a workaround you can type Alt+0156 (so I'm told anyway)

It's trying to create a directory and that's failing with an "out of disk space" error. The bug here is that you're getting a crash instead of an error dialog. However, Paint.NET can't fix whatever's going on with your disk or configuration. I bet you have some security setting that's not permitting a folder to be created on the desktop. We've seen Windows Defender's "Controlled Folder Access" wreak all sorts of havoc, for instance. It's an awful feature.

You're out of disk space.

We're in the midst of doing a "Save a Copy" / "Export" feature right now. @Bruce Bowyer-Smyth already has a pull request that prototypes it. The code isn't difficult, but it really is a chin-scratcher on the design side. Hopefully we'll avoid too much bike-shedding. Everyone who requests this seems to have a slightly different opinion about how they want it to work, so we need to distill that to find a common denominator that works for almost everyone. For now, you might be better served by using Edit -> Copy Merged for your workflow. The first time 1. Edit -> Select All (Ctrl+A) 2. Edit -> Copy Merged (Ctrl+Shift+C) 3. Edit -> Copy into New Image (Ctrl+Alt+V) 4. File -> Save (Ctrl+S), then choose destination file and save options 5. Switch back to the PDN's tab (Ctrl+Shift+Tab) The 2nd+ times 1. Edit -> Select All (Ctrl+A) 2. Edit -> Copy Merged (Ctrl+Shift+C) 3. Switch to the tab with the flattened copy (Ctrl+Tab) 4. Edit -> Paste (Ctrl+V) 5. File->Save (Ctrl+S) 6. Switch back to the PDN's tab (Ctrl+Shift+Tab) Once you do it a few times, the muscle memory is pretty easy. Not difficult, it's just that everyone who wants this will want a slightly different outcome, mostly with respect to the way the files are named. OriginalFile.1.png through OriginalFile.37.png? (or should it start at zero?) Or maybe OriginalFile.1.LayerName.png or ..... anyway there's a million variations. Scripting support seems a better channel for enabling this.

The new one isn't supposed to be bright green. It's just green.

Layer multiselection would be an enormous change, code-wise and design-wise. Can't just say "oh can you enable multiselect" ... gotta say what multiselect would actually mean!

I don't control that domain, I can't do anything about it. You'd have to e-mail them with that suggestion.

The PDN is not "closed" when you Save As. I don't know why you keep saying that. You're misinterpreting what's actually happening.