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JS Paint Todo
Help
- Resizable panes
- Resizable window
- Link-esque things
- Popups (I'd probably make the text within the popups selectable)
- Related topics (I'd probably make this a heading with links instead of the weird context menu thing)
- Update topics
- "To use black and white instead of color" ("If you change back to color, only new work will be in color." only applies if converting to black and white when switching to black and white mode)
- "To use a picture as the desktop background": add a third step? It's not quite that easy (at least in the browser)
- "To create custom colors": way too OS-specific (unless I'm gonna emulate the color selection dialog)
- "To enlarge the size of the viewing area" (
paint_enlarge_area.htm
): jspaint currently allows you to draw while "Viewing the Bitmap" - "To zoom in or out of a picture", "To type and format text": "You can enter text into a picture only in Normal view." — jspaint handles this case (well, as well as it handles the Normal case)
- Add topics
- In "Tips and Tricks" (which is just a lame section)
- Transparency
- Multi-user / collaboration / "To share the document On-Line" or whatever
- Index
- Search
- Keyboard support
Visual
- Warning sign for "Save changes to X?" dialog
- Error symbol for error message dialogs
- 3D inset border for inputs - SVG
image-border
? - The window close button uses text; font rendering is not consistent
- The progress bar (Rendering GIF) is left native
- Menu separator spacing
- Minor color differences (0x808080 != 0x7b7b7b)
- I want to give most things a revisit later on for Pixel Perfection
- Dynamic cursors
- Inverty fill bucket and airbrush cursors
- Custom cursors in Edge; apparently they require
.cur
files? ugh - The canvas-area's border is different in Firefox and Edge from Chrome
Issues
- Resizing the canvas or selection is broken when magnified
- If you open an image it resets the zoom but if you're on the magnification tool it doesn't update the options
- The TextBox contents move down and right when rasterizing
- If you click on a menu item (up/down) and then move over to a menu item and click (up/down) it does nothing (and you can repeat this)
- Can't glide thru tool options in Firefox, mobile Chrome; might be a pointer events spec interpretation issue, and it could easily be that the more technically correct browsers are where it's not working (Note: not a thing allowed by MS Paint)
Menus
- Keyboard navigation of submenus
- Alt (by itself)?
Components / Windows
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Use the ghost when dragging on a component window's title bar
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Make the component ghost account for the window's title bar
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Handle windows going off the screen
Extended editing
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Transparency
- Color opacity slider
- Toggle between blend and copy (overwrite) modes
- Maybe equivalize any rgba(X, X, X, 0) in fill algorithm? There'd still be the possibility of 1/255th opacity pixels, but if you're creating colors from the combination of a color picker and an opacity slider, you might naturally introduce differing zero-opacity color values a lot.
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Images with multiple sub-images
- Component to switch between sub-images
- Deal with undo/redo for sub-images
- Animated GIFs
- Transparency (jnordberg/gif.js issue #5)
- Animated Transparent APNGs
- APNG Library (this kickstarter wanted $15,000 to make this; I was able to compile their C++ implementation to JS with emscripten though; I'll publish that at some point)
- Multi-size Icons
- Windows ICO (jBinary can read and presumably write ICO files)
- Mac ICNS
- Layered images?
- Photoshop PSD (via psd.js)
- OpenRaster ORA (via ora.js)
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Online (multi-user) and local (single-user) sessions
- See sessions.js
- Deal with undo/redo for sessions
- Particularly it might be helpful to undo to your last change, not just to right before it (by undoing it); this could automatically be the behavior of undo if there have been changes since your last change
- Issues
- You get interrupted if you try to make a selection when there's a selection
- You get interrupted if you try to draw at the same time as another person (you basically have to take turns - lame!)
- Cursors from other users that go outside the parent can cause the page to be scrollable
Device support
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Multi-touch devices
- Two-finger drag to pan (the second touch cancels the default action just like normal)
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Single-touch devices
- Pan tool
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Enlarge GUI elements on touch devices
- Menus
- Resize handles (at least functionally; in Win7 Paint, the hitbox size is much larger than the visible size, like maybe 32px)
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You can't use the Eraser/Color Eraser tool as a "Color Eraser" without a secondary mouse button
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Make sure anything that uses hovering is paralleled on mobile (tooltips,
:hover
effects) -
Access to functionality that would normally require a keyboard (with a numpad!)
- Numpad +/-: Increase/Decrease brush size, Double/Half selection size, ...
- Shift (toggle): Proportional, Smear / Trail Selection, "Snap to 8 directions" / "Octosnap"?
- Ctrl+Select: Crop tool or "Crop to selection" option
Tools
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Free-Form Select
- Passive: create no undoables until you do something
- You should be able to make a selection, then change the secondary color, then drag the selection cutting it out with the color you selected
- See On-Canvas Objects for Selection
- Passive: create no undoables until you do something
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Select
- Passive: create no undoables until you do something
- You should be able to make a selection, then change the secondary color, then drag the selection cutting it out with the color you selected
- See On-Canvas Objects for Selection
- Passive: create no undoables until you do something
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Text
- Underline
- Expand box to make room for new lines
- Minimum size of 3em x 1em
- Store position of FontBox
- Keep an old OnCanvasTextBox while drawing a new one
- Save text and record transformations so the image can be saved as SVG (or HTML?) with invisible selectable transformed text elements?
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Polygon
- Issue with extra undoables
- Close and finalize the polygon when switching to a different tool
- Don't start making the polygon until you click and drag more than the auto-finalization distance
- Cancel the polygon if you end up within the auto-finalization distance on the first gesture
- Preview invertily (like Free-Form Select) when fill-only is selected for the shape style option
- Investigate bug: jumping to 0, 0 (only saw it happen once so far; could it have had to do with the dialog box?)
- Investigate bug: unclosed polygon (last segment of stroke) (only saw it happen once so far)
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Options
- In MS Paint, visual area =/= selection highlight area =/= clickable area
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Shape Styles and Strokes
- Shapes: respond to Ctrl (It's complicated)
- Handle patterns (black and white mode)
- Still needed for brush and fill and right click with the eraser tool (i.e. replace color)
- Check to make sure patterns are aligned properly for all the tools
- There's supposed to be a mapping between color values and pattern fills, used by the text tool and for the palette when switching between modes (colors should be kept between going to black and white mode and back)
On-Canvas Objects
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OnCanvasSelection
- Proportionally resize selection while holding Shift (or maybe by default? I feel like it should be the default, tbh.)
- Don't cut until you drag or do something else (In MS Paint, you can make a selection, change the background color and drag it, leaving the new background color behind.)
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OnCanvasTextBox
- See Text tool
Desktop App (Electron)
Electron boilerplate stuff:
- Set up Content-Security-Policy
- Remember window position/state
- Add icon to built executable
- Set up autoupdating
- Keep window hidden until loaded (
show: false
,ready-to-show
) - Ideally name the executable
jspaint.exe
instead ofJS Paint.exe
Functionality:
- A dialog when closing
- Subwindows as separate windows
- Document recovery without having to know about File > Manage Storage - pop up contextually with a dialog when you need it
- Show link URLs when you hover over them, in the status bar (because we have a status bar! haha) (there's this API: event: update-target-url, which gave me the idea, or it could be implemented with mouse events)
- Recent files (could also be implemented for 98.js.org in the future)
- Create a landing page / home page for the desktop app (similar to https://desktop.webamp.org/ or https://desktop.github.com/) - (perhaps https://desktop.jspaint.app/) - and/or for JS Paint in general (perhaps https://jspaint.app/about/)
- Remove usage of
prompt
(and ideallyalert
/confirm
too! shouldn't be using these anyways!) - macOS:
open-file
event,setRepresentedFilename
,setDocumentEdited
etc. - Windows: maybe handle
session-end
event and ask to save? - Detect if file changes on disk, ask if you want to reload it?
Also
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Anything marked
@TODO
or@FIXME
in the source code -
See Issues on GitHub
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Improve README
- More images! Animated GIFs perhaps? :)
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CSS
- DRY, especially button styles - SVG
border-image
? - Comment stuff?
- Use a CSS preprocessor
- DRY
- Clearer
z-index
handling? - Color-swap themes (maybe even load Windows theme files)
- Stuff should go in an OS GUI library with themes for Windows 98 and other OSes
- DRY, especially button styles - SVG
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JS
- Everything is in random files! "
functions.js
", REALLY? $Window
has a$Button
facility;$FormWindow
overrides it with essentially a better one- Image inversion code is duplicated in
ChooserCanvas
from tool-options.js but should go in image-manipulation.js - Make code clearer / improve code quality: https://codeclimate.com/github/1j01/jspaint
- Everything is in random files! "
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Images
- Use a shared sprite sheet per theme (and optimize it I guess)