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@toe_head2001Works fine for me with your parameters. If you just provide defaults for x and y then the default range is -1 to 1. Not sure what's going wrong. Are you referencing OBL 0.7.9? Maybe give StaticBitmapUnderlay = this.EnvironmentParameters.SourceSurface.CreateAliasedBitmap() a try. Just to see if it works with the current image.

This is not really an issue. Maybe @null54 pointed to the right direction. Have to observe it. Is there a reason for this exception?

Did you just change the extension of the filename and do not select the filetype .png from the 'Save as type' popup? In this case you will save the file in pdn format and not as .png. But paint.net just looks for the extention and will try to load it as png which will fail because its an pdn file. You may install the ''What's It?' Tools Effect Plugin and check if the content of the file matches the extension. BTW: I should really extend this plugin to allow the user to fix the extension... It's just a mess that I do not have access to the sources (because it's just from the time I loose access to ComSquare).

@NSDYeah, there seems also the issue that if you are not logged in everything is delayed. But I thought this was to give the logged in people a little advantage. But I also recognized that the counter in the topics panel is incremented but then there are no new emails (I'm using Firefox)

I'm wondering a bit that if people are adding new topics they do not appear immediately in the topics panels. Is this by design of the forum sw or does it depend on a setting? In the moment I can read several comments which indicate that they are up to an hour old but they do not appear in the Topics panel.

I'm wondering a bit why there should be a difference. As far as I know paint.net just looks for the extension of the filename (in all cases you try to open a file). Could you copy the complete filepath (including spaces) or attach a file showing this problem?

I always supported this idea because there are cases where different colors would really help. Maybe it would be enough to extend the 'Primary' / 'Secondary' combo by the items 'Primary Grid' / 'Secondary Grid'. Which would disable alpha and just allow to select the colors. I'm not sure if there would be an effect on rendering speed.

If I remember right @BoltBaitonce thought about to support OptionBasedLibrary in CodeLab. Maybe he will resume to think about if we reach a stable version and put it on gitlab. But this will take some time (including reviews and documentation). A big advantage of OBL is that you can derive your own option controls. So if you really need something special you can add it.

@BoltBaitI guess I tasted it once when I spent some time working for Hughes Network System in LaJolla. From Mexico if I remember right. High percentage. That's the point.

Parallel Lines is the plugin I'm currently working. I'm missing the latest source version but I guess I can add the missing stuff. 'Adapt value to scale factor' has a conceptual issue. You can change the Reference Scale and the rendering in the background works but apply then finally sets the values of other option controls and may try to set there values which are not in the range of these option controls. So the best way to fix is to adapt MinValue and MaxValue of the 'Reference Scale' if one of these other option control changes. This will block to select a value for the 'Reference Scale' which would raise an exception on Apply. I'm fighting a bit with the theme support for comboboxes showing images. Like in the 'Shape' option control. Maybe I will also extend the plugin later to produce parallel circles.

BTW: Theme support was possible because of this topic. Thanks @toe_head2001. I have no idea which other new features I missed in the last 5 years...

@BoltBaitsupported me to recover the midora account. Still there is no solution for the MO one. This means I'm not able to fix some of the plugin topics. I.e. I collected the missing images in the Parallel Lines and Patterns plugin. If an admin has some spare time 😉 then it would be nice to remove the image links to comsquare and paste in a copy of the image in the attached archive. Removed attachment parallellines.images.zip

I'm with you. I just proposed to return always false in IsGlassEffectivelyEnabled if OS is Win10 (no experience with Win8).

Made some progress in recovery of OBL and was able to support the theme setting in PDN. As an example a screenshot of the 'Color Harmonies' plugin using the OBL in development.

I would propose to stop glass support in Win 10. IMHO it doesn't make sense in this flat UI. All plugins using ObjectBasedLibrary show this thick border at the button and place the OK and cancel button (looks a little bit ugly). OBL sets IsGlassDesired=true and then checks IsGlassEffectivelyEnabled. If (IsGlassEffectivelyEnabled==false) then a separator line and the buttons are placed in the client area. So I would propose that IsGlassEffectivelyEnabled always returns false in Win 10.

Works as simple as you described. I guess there are several plugins to reduce a layer to the content of a single channel but they are more complex (like 'Color Matrix' Adjustment Plugin). I would call it 'Channel Editing' maybe Extraction or Reduction.

@NSDIn a second step we may do this. In the moment OBL still references PDN 3.5.11 dlls. But first I really like to recover as many of my plugins as possible using a single version of OBL (0.8?). Just to remember and figure out what I did there to get OBL to run. I have to setup git repositories for all the projects. This is not a one day job... 😉

I could reproduce and debug the issue using the same settings as in TextDistortion for a DoubleSlider in my ExamplePlugin. Seems the issue was exactly the same as Rick mentioned. A cast to int of the Slidercontrol after multiplying with the 10^DecimalPlaces. So this will be fixed in a futute version of OptionBasedLibrary.

OK thanks, I will check if I can reproduce it with a similar min/max and updown increment.

In the meantime I'm able to build OBL and my Example plugin. Takes some time (after 5 years) to setup the build environment. @NSDI tried to reproduce the issue with the DoubleSlider checking some of the OBL plugins published in the forum, but wasn't able to find an example where the issue happens. Could you point to a plugin and the option?

@ReptillianYou are right. You always have to use the time to train yourself. In addition I prepared a new web page to publish some of my deen tools for decoding and encoding of protocols with the focus on mobile communication. I will also set up a blog. Just to support people with 5G layer3 issues.

After some clean up there is in general no reason not to do it. In the moment I just have an idea what I did in OBL 😉 OK there is one reason I would like to discuss with you first.

OK, I will check if I can reproduce this. Thanks for the hint. PS: I stumbled over Reds Brexit comment in this topic 😉. I just like to say that the people in GB had no experience with grassroots democracy like in Switzerland. And the result is that you got a divided country splitted in winners and loosers. This is not democracy this is ochlocracy. Just my two cents. But this is not the right place to discuss.

This topic is about OptionBasedLibrary an paint.net extension which allows developers to create an extended user interface for effect and filetype plugins. The standard plugin development uses paint.nets PropertyBased methods to setup the user interface and the communication with the main application. OptionBasedLibrary must be installed in the same folder as the paint.net application (not in the effects or filetype folder. Here are some of the features of the OptionBasedLibrary: Tab pages (this helps to structure the ui options and can help to avoid tbfi There will be a description and examples of how to use the library in the future. If there are any questions or feature request then feel free to add them to this topic. Warnings Don't set PropertyBasedLook = true in an ConfigurationOfDialog instance. Worst case scenario: paint.net will crash.

@LadybugThanks for the support. I see you are active for a while now. Have fun. @toe_head2001Yeah PrintIt may have issues because of the direct access to printer drivers. I may check if some more try catch statements would help. @PixeyI'm still a little bit disappointed about my self that I disappeared without comment. But the issues with ComSquare and then the new job just got me. This should not happen again. @NSDOptionBasedLibrary is on the list to replace the set of old versions with a single new one. If you need some additional options we could talk about. Maybe we could create a separate OptionBasedLibrary topic. @Red ochre🙂 @Ego Eram ReputoAs always you are looking that people are getting the complete picture. Thanks. I added the list of plugins and their state to the first post (there are some small differences to EERs list). Seems everything newer then February 2015 is not accessible for me in the moment (and maybe forever). Let's see how this issue can be solved. Maybe a private comment. For sure there are reasons that I'm back just now. R&S in Switzerland reduced the number of employees in Switzerland by 5 percent because the profit was below 10%. That's easy in Switzerland because the standard is just 3 months of protection against dismissal. My latest project was the integration of the HiSilicon chipset (Huawei mobiles). This business case has been killed by the ban of Huawei. So now I have to look for a new job but this is not so easy during the Corona crisis. Let's see what happens. But for sure there is some spare time now 😉 Thanks to all for the warm welcome. Martin