You know, Gribouillis2 (aka GB2) on the road.
It works nicely globally, so it's entering in its "BugFix" stage now.

I don't want to introduce more features, mainly because current code design can't support it without big refactoring.

So, for me it's time to branch the code and start to think about GB3.

For that I need you help in various domains, as I've just started it's a good opportunity for you to propose ideas and concepts.

For sure I'll kept most of great aspects from GB2: multi-documents, layers, dynamic canvas size, ...

I'm going to introduce new one (this one need a big code refactoring in the "view"): independent ViewPort (VP).
A VP is linked to a document or to a surface, it handles the rendering of them into a classical pixels buffer, suitable to be blit by the system on the screen.
In this way I can propose multiple view of the same document (navigator, CMS, mirrored views, ...).
And VP for surfaces can be used to represent layers independently in the layer list.

Now you see also that *Gribouillis* is not longer a suitable name!
GB3 can be a nice **killer** application on your system, so having a good name is mandatory now.

I'm listening to you for this new name... and your features and concepts.

Guillaume

[ Edited by Yomgui on 2011/2/28 13:54 ]

A little teaser to up the post and motivate you

http://www.yomgui.fr/yiki/lib/exe/fetch.php/en:dev:gribouillis2:gb3_teaser1.jpg

[ Edited by Yomgui on 2011/3/6 17:09 ]

Nice screen grab! It is interesting that the enlarged view port (if that is what you call the enlarged area) is rotated from the original.

I have not kept up on exactly what gribouillis2 is, but it looks like some kind of DPaint re-implementation perhaps. I'll have to read up on all of its capabilities, but it sure would be great to have a DPaint clone on MorphOS.

> it looks like some kind of DPaint re-implementation perhaps.

I don't think that does justice to the program's features (layers etc.).

http://yellowblue.free.fr/yiki/doku.php/en:dev:gribouillis2:start#introduction

> it sure would be great to have a DPaint clone on MorphOS.

There is: http://code.google.com/p/grafx2/

Or more to the original (but very much work in progress):

http://thecommodoreamiga.com/wp-content/uploads/dpaint/dpaint.html

this DPaint has an input lags! horrible.


No, GB is not DP (hey! that's a good name!).
It's not designed to manipulate buffer at pixel level.

Some progress on new event handlers classes and tools, very fun to design tools now (like the selection...)

http://www.yomgui.fr/projects/gb3_teaser.mpeg

[ Edited by Yomgui on 2011/3/8 14:49 ]

@ Yomgui

Nice work on GB2 so far. Had rather a quick look only though and cannot say what I like for GB3 yet. But wanted to give at least a little feedback to acknowledge that your work is not overseen (well this thread is not very populated), but highly appreciated instead.

@ Yomgui

it' really great to see how this project advances, it's growing and growing to become more and more a real design and drawing program with a natural way/approach to draw if one uses a pressure sensitive grafics tablet.

This is for ARTISTS

BTW, please do not give your program the name DP; this would confuse and IMO we need something more subtile for it...