GertrudisGraphics Blog
August 2, 2010
The last year and a half has been very interesting and intense. I learned a lot of new things(*). And here is the result: GMX-PhotoPainter for Mac!.
This is by no means the end, this is just the beginning. There will be a lot of enhancements. Furthermore, because the kernel of GMX-PhotoPainter was rewritten from scratch in C++, I have a portable code which will let me start publishing beta versions for PC very soon based on the new Kernel. In fact I have versions running on PC, but they are not ready to be used even as a beta.
I would like to give special thanks to the following people (in no particular order):
- Martin Düerr: He has been helping me just from the beggining of Gertrudis Project.
- Jean-Jacques Boutaud: He gave me a lot of wise comments and tips to make GMX-PhotoPainter better.
- Anthony Bouttell: He has been helping me with GMX-PhotoPainter for several years now. Both for PC and Mac.
Also I’d like to thank to the people in the cppba group for sharing their expertise. They share their knowledge for nothing in return.
(*) What I’ve learned?:
- Enhanced my C++
- Cocoa Framework
- Objective C
- Mac OS X
- QT from Trolltech
- Wordpress
July 26, 2010
Hi! there,
Beta 6 of GMX-PhotoPainter is available for download.
Download the new beta from:
http://www.gertrudisgraphics.com/download (Select Mac Version!)
It fixes the following bugs:
- The Shortcut to Show/Hide Tools pane doesn’t work. The label of this menu item remains the same if the pane is hidden or displayed but should be “Hide” to hide pane or “Show” to show pane.
- In large monitors (20″ or larger) Each time PhotoPainter is launched, the main document window is located somewhere near the bottom and right sides of the screen with the Tools pane over it.
So, each time, the first thing to do was to move the document window (near the left and top sides of the screen) and slightly move the Tools pane to the right.
- There behavior of the tool window was incorrect when it was resized
- The “Preferences” item is greyed out. If there are no preferences whatsoever, it just shouldn’t be there.
- The “Show / hide tools” item in the “Windows” menu always has a checkmark, whether the tools are shown or not.
- If you try to quit and have unsaved changes, the dialog should read “Do you want to save the changes you made in the document “Name”?” with a subcaption reading “Your changes will be lost if you don’t save them” and the default buttons should be “Save…” “Cancel” and “Don’t Save”. Slightly different wording is OK, but different buttons will confuse the user.
July 12, 2010
It corrects the following bugs:
- Sometimes GMX-PhotoPainter refused to start, indicating that it was running under the mounted image. Even though if it was running under the Applications folder.
- Slow Undo
- Freehand tool crashed the application with any brush if it is used rapidly
- Black vertical lines started to appear on the screen when using any style of any brush at zoom levels of 25% and 75%.
- The “Save as” function under “File” did not work
- The “Save” function did appears to act as “Save as”
Download the new beta from:
http://www.gertrudisgraphics.com/download (Select Mac Version!)
It corrects the following bugs:
- Sometimes GMX-PhotoPainter refused to start, indicating that it was running under the mounted image. Even though if it was running under the Applications folder.
- Slow Undo
- Freehand tool crashed the application with any brush if it is used rapidly
- Black vertical lines started to appear on the screen when using any style of any brush at zoom levels of 25% and 75%.
- The “Save as” function under “File” did not work
- The “Save” function did appears to act as “Save as”
Download the new beta from:
http://www.gertrudisgraphics.com/download (Select Mac Version!)
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