Rick Brewster

I don't understand your question ... do you want to have the toolbar buttons put into a drop-down menu?

Also, here is an interesting article titled "The Sharp Design Philosophy Behind Paint.NET." Myself and Craig were interviewed for this some time back. Maybe it'll give you insight into any sort of informal "mission statement" we might have: http://www.devsource.com/article2/0,1759,1785684,00.asp

If you want Paint.NET to handle the file types you will have to uninstall and then reinstall Paint.NET. We only provide the file association options during setup. Luckily our setup process is pretty fast, and you won't lose any settings.

This is what I've come up with, and I think it will work well: * When a selection tool is active, the selected pixels will be tinted. This will enable the user to be able to tell which pixels are selected and which are not. * When any other type of tool is active, the selected pixels will not be tinted. * When transforming the selected pixels (scaling, rotation, translation), the outline will not be drawn. The outline will of course be drawn while transforming just the selection.

Why couldn't it be done? You've got the source code, you can do anything!

You want to make a button that executes Desaturate?

I don't understand what you're asking. GetEffectsFromAssembly() is used internally by Paint.NET, and is not part of the API that Effects developers should be concerned with.

You're saying that GIMP's associations are not correct? If so that sounds like an issue with GIMP, not Paint.NET.

Are you saying you want an effect to appear in the toolbar? Can't be done. All effects go into either the Effects or Layers->Adjustments menus.

The mission statement is officially: Rick's goal is to release Paint.NET v2.2 in 2005. :wink:

This method uses reflection to enumerate all the Types that an assembly exports and pick out the ones that derive from PaintDotNet.Effects.Effect.

Gradients, unfortunately, will not be making it into the v2.2 release. We've got a ton of other cool features that we're adding, and others that we're refining, but we just have to draw the line somewhere and finish the thing someday so that you guys can actually get to use it! But don't worry, we haven't forgotten about gradients, they will be there eventually.

I don't know why this would be happening. We recorded a demo for an MSDN interview we did, and it missed out on half of the child dialogs too.

There is no "mission statement" ...

Great! Glad it works for you.

Yeah it's not that we don't want to support DDS files. It's just that we only have so much time and a whole slew of features with varying priorities. DDS was on the list at one point but didn't make the cut. I did investigate this file format a couple months back (someone else requested it on the old forum), but discovered it would either require a lot of code or linking to various DirectX-related DLL's.

Please read the sticky before posting. http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/roadmap.htm (in other words: we've already implemented .TGA support for v2.2. We are NOT doing .DDS support, however. You can write a plugin to handle it though, as 2.2 will support file format plugins)

Yeah but did you try that utility ...

Try using the Windows Installer CleanUp utility, http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;290301 . Then delete the old installation directory (probably "C:\Program Files\Paint.NET v2.1 Alpha 2") and install the new version.

Transparent GIFs are not supported in Paint.NET v2.1b. We have implemented this for the upcoming v2.2 release.

Also we just moved the forums recently. The old one is still up in read-only mode, http://lightspeed.nu/paintdotnet . This new forum is still free of charge for us, and we have full admin rights. So I don't think we'd gain anything by having robertall hosting it for us.

Well, as I've said before (or maybe not hehe), Paint.NET's document model and rendering code is "layer type agnostic." The UI packaged around it, however, is currently not.

Adobe Illustrator and Paint.NET are completely different types of programs The former is vector based and the latter is (currently) only bitmap or 'pixel' based. Also, we have no plans for supporting read or write of Adobe file formats, simply because of their sheer complexity.

I don't follow your description ... can you post a screenshot?

IE6 does not support transparent PNG's. IE7 will (the beta I tried certainly does). If you made a fully transparent PNG and it's "not showing up" in FF ... then isn't that exactly what you intended?