fazzaz31 Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 fine program you have here, gentlemen, my hat is off to you. my problem is this: having manipulated a file, it seems that i can only "save" or "save as", then "exit" the program; so, is there a way to close the file, thus clearing the image space, without having to restart the program each and every time? rephrasing: is it just me, or is there no way to close a file without having to restart Paint.NET? "no art here; would you like to talk to charlie?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Born2killx Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 Save and hit Open or New. I built my first computer at age 11! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 No, this is not possible. Paint.NET is currently a single document interface (SDI) application. Compare it to Notepad: you can't have "zero" text files open in Notepad. If you want to work on another text file you either open another copy of Notepad, or you use File->Open to switch Notepad into working on another file. The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Born2killx Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 Oh I get it now, Paint.NET can't have a blank page with no pictures open, like how Microsoft Word, if you close the sub-window, it's like a gray screen with nothing open, right? Edit: Well, not in the Microsoft Office 2007 Beta... 2003, yeah. I built my first computer at age 11! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fazzaz31 Posted May 31, 2006 Author Share Posted May 31, 2006 sdi ... oh, ok, sure. what is "gray screen"? i no longer use word. i hate ms. hate hate. i use abiword. of course, i do use notepad. i'm thinking gates had nothing to do with it's creation. thank you. "no art here; would you like to talk to charlie?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Born2killx Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 ... What. I built my first computer at age 11! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 I'm not quite sure how this turned into a anti-Word/Microsoft thread. The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fazzaz31 Posted June 1, 2006 Author Share Posted June 1, 2006 i don't hate word. word is a program, not a person. i hate certain persons, silly to waste your time with my knee-jerk reaction. however, previous poster compared a word behavior to the sdi charactistics of Paint.NET. word behavior is not germaine to subject in hand, is obfuscatory, and certainly not even a little bit helpful for me, or for that matter, the next guy that comes along, hoping for instruction on Paint.NET behavior. my response was inappropriate (seeing as you live in redland, and all). sorry, won't happen again. "no art here; would you like to talk to charlie?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 I work for Microsoft. Anyway there's a place for discussions of Word and Microsoft, but that's not in this forum. This is a Paint.NET forum. So let's just keep the discussion on topic. Paint.NET v3.0, which is still in quite early development, will have MDI. This seems to be what you're looking for. Just don't hold your breath, this is a pretty ambitious release and will take a fair amount of time. The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fazzaz31 Posted June 1, 2006 Author Share Posted June 1, 2006 is there a place that you could direct me to that might give me a bit of the theory/mechanics underlying the difference between mdi and sdi? "no art here; would you like to talk to charlie?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 MDI is just an acronym for Multiple Document Interface, SDI is Single Document Interface. Different applications can have their own design and implementation of this. For example, while both Photoshop and Paint.NET v3.0 are MDI, they do not (or will not, rather) have the same UI for managing the multiple documents that are open. There is also TDI, or "Tabbed Document Interface," which is really in my opinion a form of MDI. (In both, you have multiple documents open.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_document_interface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_d ... _interface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabbed_document_interface The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fazzaz31 Posted June 1, 2006 Author Share Posted June 1, 2006 super. i got the part about the "sdi behavior" of paint.net, still don't see why it couldn't clear the work space, but whatever ... it does what it does. ok, so i got pic a up, i open pic b; pic a disappears. can i cascade the windows, or do i have to cut and paste beteen two iterations of the program? see my problem? anyhoo, thanks very much. "no art here; would you like to talk to charlie?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 SDI means that when you open "B", that "A" is implicitely closed. The program no longer has it open. You may find the File -> Open in New Window, and File-> New Window menu items useful. The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fazzaz31 Posted June 1, 2006 Author Share Posted June 1, 2006 ok ... got it. just cut pic a, open new window with pic b and paste. voila. see results here (i don't know how to post an image into this forum format): http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5648 ... xpress.png "no art here; would you like to talk to charlie?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Born2killx Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 I like the MDI and TDI, I won't have to open 30 windows of Paint.NET to do something. =) I built my first computer at age 11! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darknight Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 It's symple, as in mspaint just use file>new and it close the current document and open another [empty] one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good Old Dave Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 Brought here by the same issue. Rick Brewster's reply answered my question. So just MAKE SURE you do your "Save As" to wherever you want to put the file, then open a New file. It will ask you if you want to save the one you have open. Knowing you already did save it, you say "Nah." Then your new blank file opens up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 Yup although this thread is 14 years old, so ... no real reason to post here anymore The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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