IrfanPaint Support Thread

[matera]

Nice icon -- even if I never see it anywhere but here.

Ourman -- you may be disappointed that there is no smudging, but it has saved me a lot of extra opening-in.

[MItaly]

IrfanPaint 0.4.11.64 released

The new IrfanPaint stable release includes the following changes:

• changed icon;
• fixed a bug in the text tool (only in the previous version the ANSI richedit control was used, so it was impossible to insert non-ANSI characters in the images);
• now also the hatch color is adjusted to the palette of the image;
• removed string with ID 5101 ("This plug-in doesn't work on Windows 95, 98 and ME."), that now is hardcoded; this because my string-loading class (which includes the support for language files) works with unicode APIs, which do not work on Windows 9x/ME (and that string is displayed only on those OSes);
• other minor changes to the code.

This should be the version of IrfanPaint that will be shipped with IrfanView 4.2, that will be released soon.
BTW I also changed something in the site, see the new help page (based on the Bhikkhu Pesala's one).

BTW: Which toolbar ? If I run IV, I don't see any icon for IrfanPaint. (or option in the toolbar settings).

A button will be added in the next IV version.

[Sam_Zen]

I will keep up the upgrade, but for the moment, I'm not able to test anything any more,
because my main hardware collapsed completely, so I maintain net-connection now
with an old laptop running W98, so IV Paint is not available.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Looks fine here. The Unicode aware text control is essential for me.

[Sjef]

Lots of succes repairing your main system, Sam. Now your new avatar is appropriate on yourself... Hope you're with us soon from your desktop system.

[Sam_Zen]

Thanks for the support, Sjef.
Nothing to repair by the way. The thing went down electrically.
I still have to see if I can rescue the contents of the HD, with a lot of work on it.

And I learned from this that it is not handy to do all the work on one system.
If something goes wrong, everything stops.
Internet, the forums, and working professionally with audio/graphics.
I'm going to set up two dedicated systems for these disciplines.

[Sjef]

...Maybe a NAS-server in a network is an idea?

[Sam_Zen]

Such a choice is still miles away from the current situation. But this is getting off-topic.

[jimdoria]

A stupid question

Hi -

I'd seen IrfanPaint listed elsewhere and decided to give it a try.

This may be a stupid question - but how do I access the plugin? I don't see the toolbar. I don't see any menu options. I looked under effects...

I placed the DLL in my Plugins directory. Irfanview (4.10) lists it as installed when I do Help -> Installed Plugins...

How do I get started? (You might want to consider adding this to your help page.)

Thanks!

[jimdoria]

An even stupider answer...

Never mind. I found the "Show Paint Dialog" menu option udner the Edit menu. I'd swear it didn't appear there until I clicked the "Post" button on this forum. :-)

Still, it would be a good addition to the help page at http://www.mitalia.net/irfanpaint/index.php?page=help. Just a line or two about where to look for the menu option and the fact that you can use F12 to activate it.

Thanks again.

[Sjef]

Plugins

Try here for some examples of the plugins...

[MItaly]

IrfanPaint b0.4.12.65 released

The new IrfanPaint beta release includes the following changes:

• new measure tool;
• new INI section manager class for faster settings load and write;
• replaced some SendMessages with wrapper macros;
• fixed a bug in the ReplaceString function: if the replacement string was longer than the string to be replaced the characters after it were overwritten;
• minor changes to some window procedures;
• minor changes to the UIBaseTool class (to support per-tool settings saving/loading and show options dialog request);
• minor changes to the UIToolsContainer class (for the same reasons);
• minor changes all around to replace C-style strings with C++ strings (also because the new INI section manager class works with C++ strings);
• minor changes to the WindowMagnetizer class (now if the window is not magnetized the returned magnetization offset is 0).

BTW, with this version I reached and surpassed 10000 code lines.


If someone's intersted, here you can have a brief look in the internals of IrfanPaint.

[MItaly]

IrfanPaint b0.4.12.66 released

Just a fix for a very annoying bug (see the site).
Thanks to Leif for the quick bugreport.

[matera]

Ooo, me goes and grabs it NOW!

[impdf]

Measure tool

I like the new measure tool but because I'm just a user I like to get some enhancements ;-)

- The inch/mm values are not quite precise (at least not on my computers). I know the display drivers are not delivering accurate values (I expect you are using HORZSIZE). So it would be good to offer a possibility to calibrate the values (i.e. by entering a DPI or DPM value for the display). For sure in the moment you can add new units and calculate the right values, but ;-)

- To get the measuring results on the IP toolbar and not in a modal dialog would be fine

- A mode which respects the dpi of the bitmap plus the current zoom...

cu