Added; arc, chord, and pie shapes. Improved rectangle to allow corners to be rounded. Rectangle based shapes can now be restricted to be square/circle instead of rectangle/ellipse. I got a little lost (for about a day) with implementing the new shapes. A few variables involved; origin changes (top left, bottom left, center), polar vs cartesian,…
These are the three views of an image. The main view is heavily zoomed – which turns on the pixel grid. It does not make sense to have a pixel grid in the main view otherwise. The main view has an area selected for the ‘Pixels’ window. The big difference between the two is that…
Added a Panner dock to the app. This will help folks when editing larger images. Web graphics, icons, logos and pixel art (target audience for the app) are usually on the smaller size. However; a screen background, a scrolling game background, etc can be large. The following image shows my favourite screen background being edited….
Added a Magnifier. This can also be called a ‘Fat Pixel Editor’. This allows for detailed pixel editing. The mouse wheel can be used to set the size of the pixels (16 to 48). The idea is that editing at this scale is different than editing at a larger scale (this is, potentially, much more…
Put together a release for v1.0.1. This is just for Linux for this release (the development environment). Includes an RPM (should work on RedHat/Fedora and SuSE among others) and a binary tar-ball (should work on debian/Ubuntu among others). Qt5 must be installed. The downloads are on the Euphemia page.
Getting; Preset, Linear, Radial, and Conical gradients working has been the main focus. This has been achieved. There is some room to improve but its pretty good for an Alpha release. Made a video explaining the logic behind the manipulation of the gradients. This took some time to sort out so probably worth sharing with…
Work continues on Euphemia with one feature left before a first release – gradient fill. Meanwhile; added the ability to add/remove points from polyline/polygon shapes. The line segments now have a small handle (with a + character) called NewPoint. To create a new point one just drags a NewPoint handle. To remove a point one…
Looked at the options for zoom. The best option seemed to be QGraphicsView so switched to using it. It took very little time to simply add the existing canvas widget to a scene. Now switching canvas and draw tools to QGraphicsObject. Loads of other changes such as saving ‘context’ via a preferences dialog so that…
It was fun fulling committing to plugins of everything but this became much less useful once the decision was made to open source the project. It also had the project heading towards a full featured paint program and that was not the goal. So plugins were removed. Most basic features are now implemented but a…
The brushs are now from static and dynamic plugins. The plugins are a factory producing brushs derived from an abstract base class – providing the interface for the brush. Part of the brush interface is to get a; tool bar widget, config dialog, and swatch. I will do the same for pens, shapes, effects, and…