Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
For the longest time, any unhandled exception in Paint.NET caused a generic "Oops sorry, go check the crash log on your desktop" error dialog. It's not really that helpful, and it always points the blame in my direction even when it's a plugin's fault.
So, for v3.20 there is a real ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
Over the last several weeks I've been receiving a barrage of very small donations from a single person. They range in size from $0.01 USD to $0.05 USD, and the PayPal transaction fee results in a net of $0.00 for me. It's obviously very suspicious, and my bet is that ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
You asked for it, and now you're going to get it. This is currently the most passionately requested feature for Paint.NET, and I've just finished writing it for the v3.20 release.
This will make it easy, for instance, to select a 4 inch X 6 inch area. Or to do 16x9 ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
This post is completely unrelated to Paint.NET. Well, sort of.
Back in college I spent a lot of time working on a graphics library in C++, which I used to write a visualization plugin for Winamp. It was known by the name "Quasar" until I released it publicly and renamed it ...
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
I have some more ramblings about the property system, as well as three bits of news for the v3.20 release.
The more I keep using this new property system and UI generation code, the more I like it. I've been able to add a few features to some of the effects, ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
I've finally settled on the framework code for this new property system and automatic UI generator, at least with respect to Effect configuration dialogs. The beauty of this new system is that it literally only takes me about 5 minutes to convert an effect from the old system to this ...
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
Overall usage is up only 3.8% for September, which isn't too surprising nor is it bad. Vista share grew only a very small amount, and 64-bit is basically at the same level it was in August – it's still disappointingly low. Overall there isn't really much to say this month ...
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
In a previous blog posting I rambled on about how plugins need to be easier, both for users and developers. I haven't had a lot of time lately to work on Paint.NET, but I have managed to get started on a new system for developing effect plugins that provide configuration ...
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