[Gambas-user] Solving the Gambas packaging problem psychologically (!)

[Fernando Martins]

On 01/07/2014 09:38 PM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> Le 07/01/2014 17:53, Rolf-Werner Eilert a écrit :
>> As for TerraGen: http://planetside.co.uk/products/terragen3
>>
>> But those guys have been programming it for years, so it would be hard
>> to come up with anything near to its perfection...
>>
>> The serial letter thing is (in a very simple form) the project I just
>> sent you.
>>
>> This image editor in the Gambas IDE, where is it? How can I access it?
>>
> Just put any image file (jpg, png, gif or xpm) in your project and
> double-click on it from the IDE.
>
I haven't checked it myself but your idea might not be so far fetched :) 
I have not seen the latest versions of bitmap editors in Linux, but all 
of those I have checked a couple of years ago, I always missed some 
critical feature when compared to good old MS Paint Brush!! That's how 
low my standard was. Amazing and very frustrating. My uses were actually 
quite simple: grab some screenshot with PrtScn (or Alt+PrtScn), paste 
into MS PB, do some basic image manipulation, but including pixel level 
manipulation with a zoom, add some text, and then use it in a 
presentation or the web. I remember the only feature I missed in PB was 
to set the transparency color and some file format.

Plenty of Linux bitmap editors would fail on the clipboard requirement. 
Others in the zoom, or the text, IIRC. The only one that worked decently 
was the very old x-paint (IIRC the name) a pure X app, ugly as it could 
be but solid and fairly deep stuff. (gimp was not for me)

Fernando