New graphic editor

We (Brain Wave) are very interested in people's opinion - should we now create a new graphic editor? I, of course, believe that there are already 4 of them being written,
but I have only seen 1.5 ;-) The first one (from Kuzma Feskov) - I didn’t like it
(may the author forgive me), and not only me, but also our artist. I
have a question for the author - why does the cursor disappear in the top lines? It seems like they made cursors and more than 1x1 and everything worked perfectly, the beam
didn’t overtake us.
The second one (unfortunately I don’t remember the author, and I’m lazy to post a description, but I remember
that it flew almost simultaneously with the first) - didn’t start at all (at least neither on my Skorpa, nor on the Shalaevsky emulator).
I still can’t wait for the demo version of Art Works, which Sergey Novikov has long been threatening
to abandon. But for some reason he is in no hurry with this matter, but in vain...
And I also remember Flash wanted to make their own editor, but at that time they only had it in the project. If anyone knows how they are doing with it, write or post a demo version (if there is one).

We have a full-screen (!) graphic editor in our project. That is,
when drawing you are not disturbed by any menus and you see the entire screen.
Control is carried out with 6 keys (or a 2-button mouse). There are much more possibilities
planned than in Art Studio, and judging byAccording to the documentation of the demo versions we have seen, our editor will greatly surpass them. Work on the editor has already begun a little, but it can still be stopped (but I don’t want to - the editor should be too powerful). By the way, it is planned to later expand the editor into a powerful package for working with graphics. Moreover, programs will be able
to exchange information (!) and on machines with a memory of more than 128 kilobytes
it will be possible to immediately load frequently used (of your choice) programs
into memory (!).

Well, that’s all, I hope for your reaction.

With respect, Roman aka Megus of Brain Wave corp.

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RP> make a new graphic editor?

I would even say - definitely. I really don’t need it, but
people who have nothing but specs - very much so...

Yes, various goodies of PPaint would not be bad. Preferably with
animation capabilities. Although, this will already be a sprite studio :)

Nevertheless - different matrix filters, cutting out pieces of the picture
arbitrarily, using these pieces in the form of a brush, rotating
the brush along all axes, backfill transparency, necessarily several scratch
buffers... Gradient fills like dithering, as well as using the F-S
method... the ability to fill an arbitrary contour with the contents of
brushes with deformation, support for external proportional
bitmap fonts...

If most of these things don’t exist, then your editor will be
another wingless point editor.

p.s. Of course, all the features of the art studio should be there.

Good Luck...

... IBM's are nothing more than big calculators

RP> We (Brain Wave) are very interested in people's opinion - should we now
RP> make
RP> a new graphic editor? Of course, I believe that there are already 4 of them

Of course it should! There cannot be too much software, there is always little.

With respect, Alex from FFC COMPUTERS.

RP> make a new graphic editor?

Imho, it’s not worth it. Bye. Let's see if the people have enough AW.

RP> I, of course, believe that there are already 4 of them being written, but I have only seen
RP> 1.5 ;-) The first one (from Kuzma Feskov) - I didn’t like it (may the author forgive
RP> me), and not only me, but also our artist.

I don’t know, I don’t looked.

RP> I have a question for the author - why does the cursor disappear in
RP> the top lines? It seems they did cursors and more than 1x1 and everything
RP> worked perfectly, the beam did not overtake us.

RP> The second one (unfortunately I don’t remember the author, and it’s lazy to upload a description,
RP> but I remember that it flew almost simultaneously with the first) - did not
RP> start at all (by at least not on my Scorp, nor on the Shalaevsky
RP> emulator).

Ulyanovsky? I went either under X128 or under Shalaev. The interface there is bad -
it’s inconvenient to work with, and there are a lot of possibilities that were invented, although not implemented.

RP> I can’t wait for the demo version of Art Works, which Sergey Novikov has been threatening to drop for a long time
RP>.

I didn’t promise to drop it in the echo;) It will be in Scenergy#0.

RP> But it’s something So far there is no hurry with this matter, but in vain...

So there is not long to wait for SNG.

RP> And I also remember Flash wanted to make their own editor, but they had it at
RP> at that moment it was only in the project. If anyone knows how they are doing with him
RP>the way things are - write or post a demo version (if there is one
RP>).

There is also SOTA - also at the stage of a demo version. But Art Works, IMHO, is better.

RP> We have a full-screen (!) graphic editor in our project. That is
RP> there is
RP> when drawing you are not disturbed by any menus and you see the entire
RP> screen.

So it is in AW

RP> Control is carried out with 6 keys (or a 2-button mouse).

Also

RP> There are much more possibilities planned than in Art Studio, and
RP> judging by the documentation of the demo versions we saw, our editor is pretty good
RP> will outdo them.

AW has everything we could come up with. So that's enough.

RP> Work on the editor has already begun a little, but it can still be stopped
RP> (but I don't want to - it should be a very powerful editor).

There is no point in doing the same thing. Wait for the AW demo. And writing a graphic
editor is not a job for a couple of months - by the time it
is finished, there will already be 20 editors.

With God's blessing, Sergei Novikov AKA Spirit/STEP

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My on-board systems detected that on Thursday January 08 1998 00:05, Max
Romanoff wrote Roman Petrov:

MR> Nevertheless - different matrix filters, cutting out pieces of the picture
MR> arbitrarily,

And I have almost already written this, but you Can you imagine what kind of mathematics this is?
I spent so much time with this. For one thing, comrades, maybe someone is cool in
geometry, otherwise I’m interfering here on a large scale and a lot of things may not be written what I had in mind, since in geometry I have 4 (in my mind 2-----).

MR> using these pieces in the form of a brush, rotating
MR> the brush along all axes, backfill transparency, necessarily several
MR> scratch buffers... Gradient fills both by dithering and by the
MR> F-S method... the ability to fill an arbitrary contour

F-S method, what is it?

MR> with the contents of a brush with deformation,

What did you mean?

MR> support for external
MR> proportional bitmap fonts...

It’s more complicated here, I’ve developed a small system for vector fonts, but
it turns out very cumbersome, although the font itself is not very large. Now, if only
someone would help with the quick drawing procedure...

MR> If most of these things don’t exist, then your editor will still be
MR> just another wingless point editor.

Today, in general, it’s not that normalno.

Sincerely, Pheskov Kuzma.

RP>> should we make a new graphic editor now? I, of course, believe that there are already 4 of them
RP>> AL> Of course it should! There can’t be too much software, it’s always not enough.
That’s it, we’ve convinced you - we’ll do it and finish it ;-) And not only the editor, but something else,
but this is still a secret (although some people already know what it will be - but let them
keep silent ;-)

PK> And I’ve almost already written this, but can you imagine what kind of mathematics it is
PK>? I spent so much time with this. For one thing, comrades,

I would even say that there is no mathematics there. Solid logic.

PK> F-S method, what is it?

Floyd_Steinberg

PK> What did you mean?

filling is not TILE=ng, but deforming the brush throughout the entire volume.

PK> It’s more complicated here, I’ve developed a small system for vector
PK> fonts, but I have a lot of It turns out to be cumbersome, although the font itself is not very big. Now, if only someone could help with the fast drawing procedure...

In any case, on all systems with vector fonts, before
using the program, the system converts them in memory into
bitmaps of the required size, for speed of work. On the Spectrum
this will not work.

PK> Today, in fact, there is no such thing as normal.

there is. ARTSTUDIO.

Good Luck...

... Windows: A virus with mouse support.

A good program should always be done!

Sincerely
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RP> screen. Control is carried out with 6 keys (or a 2-button mouse).
RP> There are much more possibilities planned than in Art Studio, and judging
RP> from the documentation of the demo versions we have seen, our editor will surpass them quite well.
RP> Work on the editor has already begun a little, but it can still be stopped (but
RP> I don’t want to - the editor should be too powerful). By the way
RP> it is planned to later expand the editor to a powerful package for working with graphics.

Now, if the soul is on fire, then, of course, you have to write. Then you will have something to be proud of.
;)

All the best to you!
Alexey.

... MEGABYTE - American name for kilobyte (c) jargon