[Help with the creation of "border fading" plugin]

What stops you clicking File -> User Interface Designer to implement the interface and File -> Save As DLL to build the DLL?

Maybe because I don't have Visual Studio ?

I just wrote the code in notepad then copy-pasted it in the Code Lab Plug In (directly into Paint.NET). Nothing more involved.

Be sure I really don't want to bother anybody, just trying to get help to transform a raw prototype into something polished / finished so everybody can use it.

I have the feeling the learning curve of understanding / working with VS, installing templates, understanding wich part of the files to change, edit, add, how all the blocks should work together seems to me as it will take a long time... (time I've problem to find...)

Anyway, having some help on the GUI / DLL compilation is not a condition required to publish the code, I'll publish it anyway.

Another question: could such a plugin be of any interest ? Maybe another (better) one already exists ?

Regards,

Emmanuel

[Help with the creation of "border fading" plugin]

Hi all,

I've just made my very own "Hello World" code for Paint.NET .

It's a program I developed using Code Lab 1.2.

Mainly, calling the code transform a selection like this:

into this:

Zoomed detail:

Features:

- Can "fade" pixel's alpha channel and/or color to a given target alpha value and/or target color;

- Selectable "fade length" (i.e. border width);

- Selectable rounded corner radius (may be 0);

- "fading" is not necessarily linear (can range from sinus-like -> linear -> cosinus-like)

So, what is my call ?

I'd like to share the code I wrote in order to find somebody who's willing to implement the Effect GUI and compile the DLL for us all :-)

Anybody interested ?

Regards,

Emmanuel "Manette" Jacobs