Paint

[desertfish]

Here's the release of the bitmap PAINT program. It loads and saves files in the BMX file format. It supports editing and saving of 320x240 256 color bitmap images, and loading of arbitrary sized 2, 4, 16 or 256 color BMX images.

Source code (prog8) is here.

The program is quite usable although an UNDO feature, and a Zoom feature, should really be added in some future update.

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Try It Now!

test images included are called: robospider, bmxrider, desertfish

[desertfish]

removed, the example files are inside the main zip file

[desertfish]

I've updated the paint program with a small bugfix in the save routine (it forgot to set the color depth correctly, making the resulting bmx file unable to load again).

Also the example images are now inside the zip file with the paint.prg itself, so you can try to load them in the "try it now" in the web emulator as well! Their names are: (type in lowercase):

robospider
bmxrider
desertfish

[mortarm]

Based on my experience with the online emulator, I have a few suggestions for currently established features:

• Don't use transparency within the Palette and Cord. boxes.
• When "Claer"ing an image, reset the default palette and pointer color.
• A less chunky pointer will improve pixel placement accuracy. Crosshairs ae good.
• Remove the "Zoom" command until it's implemented to avoid confusion.
• A way to change pointer color so it doesn't get lost in the image.

[desertfish]

Updated the zip file in the first post:
* fixed an error in one of the included demo images
* paint now uses a crosshair cursor for drawing instead of the hand.

[desertfish]

Updated the zip file in the first post:

- much faster flood fill routine implemented.

[desertfish]

Paint can now load 2, 4, 16 color images as well. (1,2,4 bpp).

Editing and saving is still always in 256 colors.