tome10 Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Any way to make a Button that appears to be a magnifying glass rounded rectangle thingamabob? Any way to make the button dynamically magnify the background? I can't say I've ever seen that. Water droplet affect is what I'm looking for in making command buttons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NinthDesertDude Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Hello tome10 and welcome to the paint.net forum. It sounds like you're asking for a button in paint.net that you could click to create a magnifying glass circle that follows the mouse and displays whatever is underneath it in a zoomed-in view. However, you can already zoom in and out easily by holding Control and either scrolling the mouse wheel or pressing the plus or minus buttons. Rick Brewster is the only developer for Paint.net and the work required to implement this feature outweighs the benefits. He has a lot on his plate and it's fair to say this will never happen, unfortunately. But we love ideas, so if you have any other ideas that would bring a lot of missing functionality to Paint.net (and hopefully aren't too hard to do), then we'd love to hear them. Tell me if I misinterpreted anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tome10 Posted November 20, 2017 Author Share Posted November 20, 2017 (edited) No, I would like to make a button to use for my HSTouch (Homeseer) Client Interface. I need buttons that say Garage, Living Room, Bedroom etc. I was thinking have the button transparent but try to magnify the background/wallpaper dynamically. I don't think that's possible but I could be wrong. Or, more feasible would be to have the button names appear as if the button itself is a magnifying glass. Edited November 20, 2017 by tome10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LionsDragon Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Ummm...there are a couple of ways to make glass buttons in PDN, but I'm not sure about the magnifying (it's a great idea, btw). Making them static would be easy enough of course; maybe one of the plugin coders has an idea for making the magnification dynamic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJW Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 I think you need to describe it in terms of what kind of image you want to produce, not what you want a button to do. Paint.Net can't make your buttons do anything, it can only help you produce images. If you can provide examples of the sort images you want, that would be helpful. I'll mention a Water Drop Tutorial, which might or might not be related to your magnifying glass idea. A comment I made containing an image of a glass heart in front of an image on cloth may also be related (or not). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tome10 Posted November 20, 2017 Author Share Posted November 20, 2017 Well, it would be a way to add properties to a transparent image. A transparent distortion layer. Like I said, I don’t think that is possible. However, making a button that distorts the text “GARAGE” is possible I think. I’m looking into the water droplet tutorial. Thanks.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NinthDesertDude Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Use javascript. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJW Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 4 hours ago, tome10 said: However, making a button that distorts the text “GARAGE” is possible Making an image of the word "GARAGE" distorted by a transparent button is possible with PDN, for instance, by using the technique I used with the transparent heart. Turning that into a button in a program is outside the realm of PDN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IRON67 Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 9 hours ago, MJW said: is outside the realm of PDN ... and any other image editor. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tome10 Posted November 22, 2017 Author Share Posted November 22, 2017 Yea, for the record, I use Homeseer HSTouch to do the 'Controlling'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tome10 Posted December 31, 2017 Author Share Posted December 31, 2017 I went through the water droplet tutorial, and I don't seem to have the rotate/zoom plugin you were using. thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IRON67 Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 (edited) Rotate / Zoom is Part of Paint.Net and not a external plugin. You find it in the program-menu under Layers or Ctrl+Shift+Z. Edited December 31, 2017 by IRON67 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tome10 Posted December 31, 2017 Author Share Posted December 31, 2017 found it! thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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