On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:03:28PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote: > A simple extension currently enjoyed by users of "Sticker Book" is support > for backdrops. > > Backdrops are used for making "scenes", and give younger artists a bit of a > framework to work within. It's not a hard thing to do in a very ad hoc sort > of way: just add the backdrop images to each user's .tuxpaint/saved
I hadn't thought of this, specifically. I had the idea of having a "Coloring book" mode, where there'd be a black outline drawing on the screen that couldn't be erased. E.g., if you had this: ..... .###. .#.#. .###. ..... And painted a red brush across it, you'd get: ..... .###R R#R#R R###. ..... Kind of as if you had a layer of cellophane with an outline between your hand/crayons, and the paper you were drawing on. Hrm... Make sense? > There are a couple of problems with this approach: > > - backdrops can be accidentally destroyed by the user by overwriting What I'm thinking is maybe having them appear in the "Open" dialog, but somehow show that they are immutable. Give them a golden button or other special kind of frame-shape. And, of course, disable the Delete (Trash icon) button. And, of course, when they go to save, have it not overwrite the existing image, but save a new one. I might be able to hack this in an upcoming version. I'd like to get 0.9.13 out the door soon, though! Before the next major holidays (Hanukkah and Christmas) come up, so that I can get an updated set of stamps out. Not sure if I'll have time to add the zoom/shrink functions to Stamps tool by then, tho. :^( > - backdrops are copied onto everyone's account, whereas only one set of > distributed backdrops really needs to exist (perhaps supplemented by > site-specific backdrops added by the admin) I think they could just live in a /usr/local/share/tuxpaint/scenes/ directory, where everyone would see them. They could be a separate (set of?) package(s?) (like Stamps are now), even. -bill! _______________________________________________ Tuxpaint-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev
