On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 07:02:31PM +1030, ManInWhite wrote: > <snip>
Hey Philip. Unfortunately, I can't answer your other questions. I'll let John handle it. ;^) (Thanks a ton, John!) However... <snip> > > thirdly, > I am interested in adding some more stamps, ie: Australian Coins (notes? > maybe) and maybe even some stamps that the kids at school make -- what is > the procedure in submitting these ? Feel free to send them to my via private e-mail. If you want to go through ALL of the work, they should be in PNG format with alpha transparency. If you just want to send me the originals and have me cut them down to size, 'cookie cutter' them out (add alpha), and convert them to PNG, that's fine, too! Obviously, my integration of the latter will take longer. ;^) > fourthly, > We are using MS terminal services at work (RDP 5.0), and that has a > restriction on colors (256 of em to be specific), but tuxpaint renders > itself in a nasty 16 color mode. Now i think thats an SDL thing (maybe? Ive > done a little bit of SDL stuff in the past) , which i will investigate if i > can get this to link :P, but i would like to experiment with low color > modes. Admittedly, I have only tested Tux Paint in 16bpp mode. I'm guessing it would work _reasonably_ well in 8bpp (256 color) mode. 16 color might be asking for a bit much. :^) It might be sensible to reduce the colors of the interface images (pushbuttons, etc.), but I assume the ability to alpha-blend so much, that it might be hard. Also, the stamps would be a completely different (and likely, unsolvable) issue. As a 16-color-mode replacement for "MS Paintbrush", though, it might just work. Are there really people out there stuck with 16 color systems still? (I'm not being rude... I honestly don't know. :^) ) > finally, > I am also interested in adding some stamp functionality, maybe some features > of the old Broderbund 'Kid Pix', special eraser tools, crazy brushy type > things, etc (even do a survey of the teachers at work -- find out what they > want to do with a tool like this). Is that cool? That's fine! I've never used 'Kid Pix.' I think I had heard of it once a few years ago (my wife's parents had it on their Mac II and I may had seen it back in 1995 or so). I only heard of it again recently, since making Tux Paint. The big difference, from what Stephen Helms tells me, is that Kid Pix has animated objects that can be placed on the screen. Tux Paint was designed to be more like 'The Gimp' - a raster editor... so if I were to do 'animated stamps/shapes', I'd probably just make a brand new "Tux-XYZ" program. ;^) Can you tell me more about these other features of Kid Pix you were thinking of adding? -bill! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hire me! http://newbreedsoftware.com/bill/ http://newbreedsoftware.com/bill/resume/ _______________________________________________ Tuxpaint-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev
