LazPaint (alpha-blending, antialiasing, filters)

[circular]

I've fixed the bug on subversion by adding {$H+} directive, which means use ansistrings (long strings).

I see what you mean by pixelate. But what do you mean by outline effect ?

Take your time with the update checker. It's already very cool.

[lainz]

I leave it to you FabienWang...

I'll improve the update checker soon. (when i'll have more time).

You can do it High DPI for Windows?
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/High_DPI

[fabienwang]

Release version 4.2 :
- DPI Aware Update Checker
- preview for emboss, motion blur and twirl effects
- reorganized code with new classes

Sources :
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazpaint/files/src/

Binaries (GTK2 and Win32) and Windows Installer :
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazpaint/files/bin/

[lainz]

Tested. The preview it's really nice. And the updater looks fine in High DPI.

PD: the shortcut in desktop must be 'LazPaint' and not 'lazpaint'.

#define MyAppName "LazPaint"
#define MyAppOutputName "lazpaint"

OutputBaseFilename={#MyAppOutputName}{#MyAppVersion}{#MyInstallerSuffix}

[circular]

Thanks FW

lainz, do you want to have access to lazpaint subversion ?

[lainz]

Hi FabienWang, please see here:

Inno Tools Downloader (with delphi source code included)
http://www.sherlocksoftware.org/page.php?id=50

With this can be made an update checker / downloader for Windows, see the examples, specially the example 3 (\Sherlock Software\InnoTools\Downloader\examples).

"http://lazpaint.sourceforge.net/latest.txt"

current

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4.2
can be?..

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4.2,"http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazpaint/files/bin/lazpaint4.2_setup_win32.exe"
If you modify the 'latest.txt' I can create a kind of 'online installer' that always download the latest version of LazPaint, to distribute in download sites. (pd: i'm waiting opinion of circular)

[circular]

@lainz

I think it is a good idea to create a generic installer.

It can be possible to add some string after the version number but what you propose would be only windows friendly. It would be useful to know what programmers with lazarus on linux think about it.

It would be possible to determine the file to download by getting the web page :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazpaint/files/bin/
and find a link to an exe file. Maybe this list can be accessed another way, you know like doing "dir" in the online folder. Maybe there is a URL syntax for it.

Otherwise it would be necessary to parse the html file. For example the last setup is in the html element
<tr title="lazpaint4.2_setup_win32.exe" class="file">
It's rather easy to find, provided the html scheme does not change.


I've search the web for lazpaint and wow, LazPaint 4.2 is on many download sites !

They say that the author of the program is Fabien Wang... lol

[fabienwang]

@lainz and @circular.

In my opinion, i'd rather open a new project to create a generic and multiplatform update checker which would also get the binaries and restart the app.

Or i could just do this in lazpaint, easily:
1) get the latest version from portable zip (due to the naming convention
lazpaint + version number + '_' + win32 or gtk2, it would be easy to download the zip directly)
2) rename the current binaries with a prefix "old_"
3) extract the downloaded zip in the app directory
4) exit lazpaint if opened
5) delete old files and start new lazpaint

[circular]

In fact, FW and lainz you're talking about two different things. Both are possible and useful.

FW what you propose would make the update process faster.

What lainz propose would be a generic downloader, not an updater. This downloader could download any program. I think that it would be great to have such downloader, that go on sourceforge site to know what the last version is. With some configuration, it could work for any program, not only LazPaint.

[circular]

Lainz, you've made a po file for translation. How does it work?

[lainz]

Lainz, you've made a po file for translation. How does it work?

See here:

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Translations_/_i18n_/_localizations_for_programs

I used "IDE options for automatic updates of .po files"-

PD: also I added High DPI procedures in each form in LazPaint (see image attached).

[circular]

@lainz: i've deactivated scaledpi in main form and in toolbox.

i just noticed that tool windows do not have their title anymore. any idea why?

i checked DPI aware application in project option, now I get "error while compiling resources"

by the way, where is the setting or the call to use po files ?

[lainz]

@lainz: i've deactivated scaledpi in main form and in toolbox.

I fixed the TToolBox
(See image attached).

i just noticed that tool windows do not have their title anymore. any idea why?

I have no idea.

i checked DPI aware application in project option, now I get "error while compiling resources"

I solved the problem.

by the way, where is the setting or the call to use po files ?

I've now added. Now the translation is done with the .po files on initialization.

[circular]

Thanks Lainz.

[lainz]

Thanks Lainz.

Sorry if I have sent you a lot of messages =D