I tested your branch 'scratchpad' to watch the actual behavior , using
various pictures.
( http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/4934/20110721screenshot001.jpg )
_here is my first feedback :_
First : Scratchpad creation = very cool ; and simple.
For the 'save' and 'open' button , I like the focus on the
~/.mypaint/scratchpads/ by default
revert = ok,
new = don't work as expected , it's more a 'erase all' than a 'new'.
Because on exiting, it's autosave, and overwrite the last saved palette
even if I specified I create a new one. I guess it's at this moment I
would prefer an autosave into a ~/.mypaint/scratchpads/last.ora instead
of overwrite the last palette I created before pressing 'new button'.
Abusing of the scratchpad as palette
=http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/7209/20110721screenshot003.jpg works
after editing the ora in Gimp ; that's cool!
Little glitch ; color picking with 'Ctrl' seams to not work with the
scratchpad ; 'r' key color-picker works and 'w' too. Also, 'spacebar'
doesn't work over it to pan ( mouse-middle-click-button , yes ; but
here I don't have it on my stylus )
I could record the last scratchpad opened with a given file in the
settings and have that persist between sessions - would that do?
As the scratchpad directory is in the same directory as the
configuration, this might be a suitable way to share?
Yes , I really think the more simple and straigtforward solution (
skipping ora inclusion/path and all ) would be to have
~/.mypaint/scratchpads/new.ora
~/.mypaint/scratchpads/last.ora
I explain myself :
new.ora = would be a special one 'template' like when pressing 'new'
button. Artist like me can this way abuse of it to store default colors
/ tools / a grid of empty cell to fill , or even what they want... ( a
YGBVRO wheel ; a gammut mask ;
http://www.livepaintinglessons.com/gamutmask.php etc... ) . The default
: a empty white ora.
last.ora = the last one displayed before Mypaint close ( auto-saved ) ;
even if this one exist under another filename.
Tell me what you think about, and if this is not a coding nightmare and
make sens ; I'm just a user :)
-David
On 21/07/11 17:31, Ben O'Steen wrote:
I'm not sure how to accomodate this within the .ora file itself, not
without abusing it!
The most up to date version of what I am working on is now here:
https://github.com/benosteen/mypaint/tree/feature%2Fscratchpad
(I'll update the URLs on the videos in due course)
It's now (IMHO) getting to the point of being pretty useable and I'll
do a demo vid to show how it currently works.
Canvas<--> pad
-----------------------
As for linking a canvas with a pad - it would have to be external to
.ora for the time being and what you are asking for is to keep a pad
associated with a
work, not a particular file (eg linked to a 'painting', rather than
just '/path/foo/painting_v23.ora') This makes a lot of sense to me :)
Unfortunately, the code I have already done for this links a file to a
scratchpad, in a 1 to 1 fashion (a scratchpad was owned by a single
file, not multiple files.)
I could record the last scratchpad opened with a given file in the
settings and have that persist between sessions - would that do?
As the scratchpad directory is in the same directory as the
configuration, this might be a suitable way to share?
Ben
On 21 July 2011 15:53, David REVOY<[email protected]> wrote:
On 21/07/11 16:46, Eric Honaker wrote:
What if the scratchpad were assumed to be in the same directory, with the
same file name for auto open purposes? Them nothing is added to .it's.
Picture.ora accompanied by Picture.spd? .
With my incremental saving file process (I manage a lot of *.ora files on
folders ) , this would create a lot of little 'parasite' files on my system.
I would prefer them to be stored inside the ~/.mypaint user pref folder ; or
in the *.ora.
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