Philip

Lol yeah that's actually exactly as I described it to start with (hmm, perhaps I didn't explain that part clearly enough): Yeah I meant open any two windows and then close the last one that you just opened. Anyway your steps are less ambiguous than mine.

I just tried it that way and it reproduces for me as well (started with all tool windows open, then pressed F5, F6, F7, F8 ). Seems that there are a number of different combinations that will reproduce it, but when it does happen it's always at the moment when a tool window is supposed to close. If I read between the lines here correctly, I think you were implying that having other programs open was causing a lack of memory (please correct me if I am wrong). The reason I asked you to open other programs is because you can only observe this loss/change of focus if there is another running program that can receive the focus. Even if you just have Paint.NET and Notepad open, it can be reproduced. I was able to find at least some pattern to reproduce this, but if that doesn't work you could just try pressing the buttons F5 through F8 randomly until something happens! (And then try and remember what order you pressed them!)

No worries! Thanks for taking the time to implement this at all, and thanks for the update. :wink:

Note: Having searched the forum, I found that this is identical to a bug reported by Shadow.NET, but in that post the bug was dismissed as non-existent and the thread is now too old to revive: http://paintdotnet.12.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=3470 Description: Toggling the floating tool windows using the keyboard when there are no documents open causes Paint.NET to lose focus. Focus is passed to the next open application in Windows. Furthermore, Paint.NET also disappears from the Alt+Tab Task Switcher and does not reappear until the Paint.NET window recovers focus. Severity: Minor Reproducible: Always Steps to reproduce: 1. Open Paint.NET and have at least another one program running (suggest you have another two programs running, so that the task list is well populated). 2. Close all images so that Paint.NET has no open images. 3. Using the keyboard, toggle the floating tool windows in an order such that when two floating windows are closed, open the first one then second one and then close the second one. For example, when the Layers and Colors windows are closed, press F7 to open the Layers window, then F8 to open the Colors window, then F8 again to close the Colors window. (ie, F7, F8, F8 ). Expected behaviour: The floating tool window closes. Actual behaviour: The floating tool window closes, but also the Paint.NET application loses focus and the focus is passed to the next application in the task list. Paint.NET also disappears from the Alt-Tab Task Switcher until it receives focus again. This bug can also be reproduced by using the keyboard only to toggle the floating tools windows via the options in the Window menu, but it does not occur if the mouse is used. Tested: Paint.NET v3.08 and v3.10 beta, Windows XP.

Hmm... interesting alright. Although I think the simple answer to your question is no, there is no such "independent module" from Paint.NET for that purpose. You really got me thinking though... At first I would have thought that it would only be possible to do that kind of graphic manipulation in a browser if you used an applet like Shockwave/Flash or Java. But actually, what if you took some Paint.NET source code and used it in an ASP.NET web application to process images on the server side? That question might be better aimed at the programming section of this forum, but I guess since you say that you are not a programmer, that's not really going help. But I hope you find a solution anyway, ma'am.

The second issue I can understand... but I can't seem to recreate the first issue? I can draw lines close to each other just fine, the only issue is when the next line I want to draw starts on one of the nubs/handles of the previous line, in which case I just press Enter first to finish the current line.

Indeed I think we have covered all the requirements so far, but perhaps this concept still requires some elaboration. As I mentioned, your friend’s image is an animated GIF. An animated GIF file is a special type of GIF file which essentially contains a series of regular GIF images (still images). When it is viewed, the images are played one after the other to give an animation effect. Each of those still images are called “framesâ€

It's actually an animated GIF image. Unfortunately Paint.NET doesn't support the creation of animated GIFs, but this tutorial might be a good start: Make an Animated .GIF with Paint.NET http://paintdotnet.12.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=2492

Thanks Rick, I'm glad that you agree. While we’re on the topic, I don’t know if this behaviour also is used when acquiring an image from a scanner or camera. I guessing that it probably already does set the resolution of the new image correctly, but I only have a TWAIN compliant scanner so I’ve never been able to try any acquisitions in Paint.NET myself. Perhaps you already know if this is the case or someone else out there can confirm it.

When using the “Paste in to New Imageâ€

Have you tried any of the following? Window > Colors ( F8 ) Window > Reset Window Locations

Edit > Deselect (Ctrl +D) There is also an equivalent toolbar button.