On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 21:09 +0000, ste b wrote: > hi and congratulations on a great program, > one thing that i know children have to be able to do in school is to make a > repeating pattern
First of all, I heartily agree. This is something xpaint has that Tux Paint still lacks, and so my children still occasionally use xpaint in spite of its major limitations in other areas just so they can use the pattern editor. > it would be great to draw a pattern on a portion of the > screen, draw a bow around it, and then hold down a key say 'ctrl' and the > area you captured in the box becomes a temporary stamp, this is an important > feature that would be nice to be included. Bill will probably have more to say about this than me. In general, we try to avoid requiring kids to know "magic" keys, preferring to use buttons instead. Also, selection is tricky. Note that Tux Paint lacks a selection tool. This is deliberate because it's hard to do in a child-friendly way. I think a simple "fat bits" stamp maker mode would be better. The stamp would fill the entire display enlarged while it is being worked on, and the finished stamp would appear on the left toolbar as it is being drawn. I believe this is an idea that has been discussed before in the past in one form or another. It would be nice to see the idea developed a bit more and finally implemented. > good luck with the 800*600 resolution i'm afraid it didn't work on my nvidia > geforce 2mx card What happened when you tried it? It should at least work with the --windowed switch. Ben _______________________________________________ Tuxpaint-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev
