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mtPaint Painting Program coming!



[From the homepage] mtPaint is a painting program which Mark Tyler developed from scratch so he could easily create pixel art and manipulate digital photos.

It uses the GTK+ toolkit (version 1 or 2) and runs on PC's via the GNU/Linux or Windows operating systems. Due to its efficient design it can run on older PC hardware (e.g. a 200MHz CPU and 32MB of RAM)

This makes it an excellent candidate for sketching and image manipulation on the Nokia 770/800 internet tablet. The program builds without modification and runs as a single tiny (!) 602 kB executable.

Raw testing build optimized for 770 and usage notes available here.

http://pupnik.de/mtpaint.html

If anyone is interested in testing, please post detailed notes of your issues here, i'll summarize on the notes page. Particularly of interest are any crashes and performance issues working with larger images.

Unique311 is working on hildonization and packaging. Mtpaint developers may be able to respond to optimization and feature issues that you can bring up.

This looks like a real winner. Thanks to unique311 for the heads-up on this!

ooo! That makes more sense for me than Gimp. I'll test!

works fine on my 770.

Hildonization: right now, the full-screen button toggles a toolbar. When the full hildonization is in, I'd suggest keeping something like that - have it rotate between three modes: normal windowed mode with toolbars, fullscreen with toolbars and fullscreen drawing mode with no window dressing at all.

Wow! Thanks for working on this. This is exactly what I was hoping for.

I tried my hands at hildonizing te src..I can't get it....
the src file is available on sourceforge
but you can also pick it up at
http://maemo.divshare.com
http://n800.divshare.com

Hi Arnim, I tried your compiled binaries of mtpaint on my 770. They are neat. Are you or anyone else working on hildonizing it?

I started working on it with something similar in mind, I am first trying to autotool'ize the mtpaint package, so that I can recompile it easily for maemo. Only today I came across your post and tried your test binaries. Did you just recompiled the source in your maemo toolchain and created that testing binary?

Let me know.

Thanks.

arnim and myself are on #maemo on the freenode network.
check it out.
can discuss mtpaint on #maemo.

Is this still coming? Any updates?

Haven't had time to hunt for the crashes. The build was just a straight compile iirc - i think my notes page describes any tweaks i did. I'm a stickler for alpha-blended brushes and different drawing algorithms (simple addition, hue/intensity etc) and mtpaint author hasn't implemented them yet.

Maybe we could chip in to donate so original author can buy a 770 and do the port himself? If we can get 10 people to offer $10, he might be persuaded.

(need more developers!)

Any chance you could post the source? I would like to add full screen support.

thanks,
Frank