My stupid email is broke... this is a bit late... but here was my reply :)
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Bill Kendrick wrote
| On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:03:28PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote:
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| 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.
|
| 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?
Wow... I like that... what would be even neater is if there was a
--paint-by-color option... to where areas would labeled a color, and
the user could only put that color in that area (I imagine this
would be exceedingly complex to do... but it would be oh so cool to
teach color words)
| 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.
how about clicking open brings up a simple 3 button dialog, a button
with a blank white square, a black and what outline of a happy face,
and a picture of a mountain backdrop, maybe something like this:
http://www.zqc.com/~jzeigler/tuxpaint/suggestion.png
Now here is where I get whacky :)
If saved files had /the possibility/ of an inf file, (maybe in
saved/.inf/) and the drawing area allowed for 3 layers (background,
canvas and foreground) you could keep the scene backgrounds and
coloring book outline's completely separate from the users actual
drawing. I am not sure how this would effect most users and exporting
the images... but maybe tuxpaint-config can help with that ;)
| > - 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.
Also stencils/ could be added to share/tuxpaint/ (don't know if
windows uses this). Scenes could have .dat files that lists stamps the
scenes creator would want to go with that scene (and maybe some other
options, like background music/sound :) (how cool would it be to have
Christmas music played while working on a Christmas scene, or ocean
sounds when doing an ocean scene?)).
| 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.
|
My household Looks forward to this :)
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Justin Zeigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
President, Open Source Education Foundation
"Science without religion is lame,
religion without science is blind."
-Albert Einstein
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