paint.net 4.0.10 beta build 6022

[Rick Brewster]

Here's a new feature that's been at the top of the list for a long time. And a big handful of other, important fixes I'm releasing this here in the Preview Center for now, and am hoping to release a final/public build in about 2 weeks.

• New: The canvas may now be scrolled past the edge of the image (aka "overscroll")
• New: When holding the spacebar, you may scroll using the keyboard arrow keys (in addition to click-and-drag panning). Holding Ctrl will scroll at 10x the rate.
• Improved: The rate of auto-scrolling, which triggers when the mouse is at the canvas edge and a mouse button is being held down, has been improved and is based on time instead of frames
• Improved: Fixed Size selection drawing now defaults to 400x300 pixels instead of 4x3 inches
• Improved: Tooltips for Custom Shapes now include their file system location
• Improved: Edit->Invert Selection should perform much faster when used with unmodified selections from the Magic Wand tool
• Improved: When running within VMWare, "Hardware accelerated rendering" is disabled by default (Microsoft's WARP is faster than VMWare's D3D emulation)
• Fixed: Erratic brush/pencil drawing when running within VMWare (this is caused by a bug in Win32's GetMouseMovePointsEx API, and is not actually limited to VMWare)
• Fixed: Color Picker tool could crash if used at the bottom of the image, as reported at http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/109248-paintnet-crashes-when-color-picker-off-screen-update/
• Fixed: There was a glitch in the Gradient tool's rendering when dx was equal to dy, as reported at http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/107380-gradient-bugs-in-direction-and-length/
• Fixed: The Layers window would sometimes auto-scroll the active layer to the bottom when performing certain operations, as reported at http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/32527-layers-auto-scrolling-when-adding-or-duplicating/
• Fixed some mouse cursor glitches when using panning using the spacebar
• Fixed many glitches and a few crashes in the image size dialogs (File->New, Image->Resize, Image->Canvas Size)
• Fixed a problem with inconsinstently skipped input when using the arrow keys to move tool handles, as reported at http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/108932-selected-area-moving-with-direction-keys-bug/
• Fixed: Custom Shapes did not always have the correct bounding box, and would have weird behavior as a result
• Fixed: Line/Curve handles were unusable for up to 500ms after adjusting properties in the toolbar
• Fixed some crashes and soft hangs in the Save Configuration dialog
• Fixed a blemish at the top of the main window when Windows is set to 200% DPI
• Fixed: There were some precision bugs with IndirectUI sliders that would cause them to get "stuck" at certain values (mostly affects effect plugins)
• Improved: IndirectUI's Angle Chooser control now supports the DecimalPlaces property (for plugins)
• Improved: IndirectUI's Slider controls now support all-negative ranges (e.g. [-200, -20])

 

NOTE: This is not available via the built-in updater. You must download this ZIP and double-click the installer EXE inside. The installer is digitally signed and Windows' UAC dialog will display the publisher as dotPDN LLC.

 

Download: Go here instead for the newer one: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/109763-paintnet-4010-beta-build-6023/

[Pixey]

Many thanks for the update - downloading now .

 

Edit:  Just noticed that, doing it this way, one will lose previously saved Effects. Great way to clean them out . 

Edited June 27, 2016 by Pixey

[BoltBait]

Edit:  Just noticed that, doing it this way, one will lose previously saved Effects. Great way to clean them out .

This install shouldn't affect your installed effects.

When I installed it, I thought the same thing. But, I went into the Effects folder and right clicked on the missing effect's DLL files and "unblocked" the individual files, everything showed up fine.

[Pixey]

This install shouldn't affect your installed effects.

When I installed it, I thought the same thing. But, I went into the Effects folder and right clicked on the missing effect's DLL files and "unblocked" the individual files, everything showed up fine.

 

I guess you must have done the 'unblocked' prior to install?  I didn't and it installed sans all of my previous effects.

 

Edit:  I went back and unblocked the missing DLL files and they are now showing up - Many thanks @BoltBait for that tip .

Edited June 27, 2016 by Pixey

[lynxster4]

Love, love, love the 'overscroll'!!            

 

I don't know how many times over the years I've wished I could scroll "just...a...little...bit.....further....." when working on a project.

 

This is a great new feature.  Thank you, Rick!            Need to play with it some more...but after work.  

[Eli]

Why are the dlls blocked? They were never blocked with previous updates. 

[BoltBait]

Why are the dlls blocked? They were never blocked with previous updates.

When you download DLL files from the Internet using IE, they are blocked by default. You need to unblock the DLL files for paint.net to use them.

[Pixey]

Why are the dlls blocked? They were never blocked with previous updates. 

 

I may be wrong, but I think that because this zip download is essentially a "test" version, that's why it didn't copy our effects over.  Perhaps, when it is launched, in two weeks time by the regular method, then it will save the effects from the older version.  But .............. this is just my guess .

[Eli]

When you download DLL files from the Internet using IE, they are blocked by default. You need to unblock the DLL files for paint.net to use them.

 

 

I never use IE. I have always used Chrome to navigate or  download the dlls. Could it be that the new update is doing something to block the dlls? As I said before, I never had this issue with previous updates.

Anyway, I guess I will have to unblock my 600+ dlls one by one. 

Edited June 27, 2016 by Eli

[xod]

Thanks BoltBait. Just wondering why CodeLab v2.12 does not appear in the list of plugins.

[BoltBait]

...CodeLab v2.12 does not appear in the list of plugins.

Time to update your CodeLab plugin!

[Ishi]

Some important plugins are still not showing up for me despite unblocking them. Curves+, Vibrance and Random Shape Fill are still not showing up and if I unblock them, their DLLs somehow need to be re-unblocked over and over as if unblocking them cannot be persistent. Any help with this? These are very important effects to me.

[BoltBait]

...if I unblock them, their DLLs somehow need to be re-unblocked over and over as if unblocking them cannot be persistent.

I have never seen this behavior before. Could it be an overzealous virus scanner?

[toe_head2001]

Some important plugins are still not showing up for me despite unblocking them. Curves+, Vibrance and Random Shape Fill are still not showing up and if I unblock them, their DLLs somehow need to be re-unblocked over and over as if unblocking them cannot be persistent. Any help with this? These are very important effects to me.

Make sure the both Effects folder and the dll file are not set to Read-only.

[Ishi]

Yes, they are on the Effects folder and its is not set to read only.

 

I guess I will have to find DLLs of those effects that are not blocked by default or try to unblock them using my other operating system cause I'm on a multiboot computer. I did manage to save Clouds Effects and Shape 3D using the unblock method though.

 

EDIT:

 

I think I have to find a way to "take ownership" of the DLLs. Some of them date back to 2012 because they were copied from my old computer.

Edited June 28, 2016 by Ishi

[Ego Eram Reputo]

On 27/06/2016 at 1:00 PM, Rick Brewster said:

• Improved: Fixed Size selection drawing now defaults to 400x300 pixels instead of 4x3 inches

 

 

I'd still like to see these two units linked. If I select inches in the status bar as my base unit I'd expect to see the same unit used for Rectangle Select > Fixed Size.

[Drydareelin]

• New: The canvas may now be scrolled past the edge of the image (aka "overscroll")

 

YES RICK.

Not the hero we need...

 

Also I luckily backed up all my effects and such first. I already did my clean out a few weeks ago

[Gilu]

• New: The canvas may now be scrolled past the edge of the image (aka "overscroll")

 

*SCREAMING LIKE A GIRL AT A BOY BAND CONCERT!!*

[Ishi]

UPDATE:

 

I had to download a take ownership.reg file so that "Take Ownership" appears on my context menu for files. I would use the Take Ownership function every time before unblocking the DLLs and that worked! They now appear with this Paint.NET beta version. I thought something was gonna hold me back from updating.

 

Again, thanks Boltbait.

[Red ochre]

I can report that after unblocking 'Psychocolour' the double slider up/down arrows now work as expected! - Excellent bug squashing, many thanks.

The unblocking issue for Effects and Filetype .dlls is a pain but the 'over-scrolling' feature is great.

[Rick Brewster]

Plugins weren't supposed to get "blocked" like that.

 

I have a fix for the next update. For now, you can modify PaintDotNet.exe.config to add the line <loadFromRemoteSources enabled="true"/> in the <runtime> section: 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
  <runtime>
    <gcAllowVeryLargeObjects enabled="true"/>
    <generatePublisherEvidence enabled="false"/>
    <legacyCorruptedStateExceptionsPolicy enabled="true"/>
    <loadFromRemoteSources enabled="true"/>
  </runtime>
  <startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true">
    <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.6"/>
  </startup>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="EnableWindowsFormsHighDpiAutoResizing" value="true" />
  </appSettings>
</configuration>

[Rick Brewster]

Newer update, go here instead: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/109763-paintnet-4010-beta-build-6023/