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Posted: Fri 30 Nov 2012, 23:28
by RSH
HI.

I have watched this from time to time and also downloaded. So, I must say: I like this. :D

Last version I've tested was 1.4 - it could not set/paint a single dot.

Suggestion:

Make it able to draw a single dot and insert a function to zoom single dots to (let's say) 8 pixels (for the use of small images).

It could be then a very nice and really useful Icon Editor. :idea: :D :lol:
SFR @ Icon Finder wrote:
RSH wrote:I like this that much, so i have made an icon for it.

Hope you like this.
Sure I do like! Me personally can't draw a straight line, so I always appreciate such a help.
Your icon has been included.
PLEASE!

Posted: Fri 30 Nov 2012, 23:59
by SFR
RSH wrote:Last version I've tested was 1.4 - it could not set/paint a single dot.

Suggestion:

Make it able to draw a single dot and insert a function to zoom single dots to (let's say) 8 pixels (for the use of small images).

It could be then a very nice and really useful Icon Editor. :idea: :D :lol:
Sure you can, just choose "Line", increase stroke-width a bit, and...start making dots.

Just kidding, I know what you mean. :wink:

You can do it this way: choose some bigger drawing area size to get control on details, eg. 480x480, make an icon and then save it as .png with 48x48 resolution.

Zoom option has crossed my mind, but it doesn't make sense really, since it's vector graphic, so even if some part of the picture would be zoomed, you couldn't see its "pixels" anyway.
SFR @ Icon Finder wrote:
RSH wrote:I like this that much, so i have made an icon for it.

Hope you like this.
Sure I do like! Me personally can't draw a straight line, so I always appreciate such a help.
Your icon has been included.
PLEASE!
I'm really hopeless in drawings, isn't that ironic..? :lol:

Thanks & Greetings!

Posted: Mon 03 Dec 2012, 12:33
by SFR
I couldn't stop myself: Version 1.6 uploaded.

Only one purpose: performance optimization in critical functions.
Result: ~15% less resource hungry.

Actually it's efficient enough to add (rough) preview for "Freehand" mode, what I did.
"Arc" preview has been improved too - now all stages of creation are shown.

First post updated.

Greetings!

How do I use this?

Posted: Tue 29 Jan 2013, 15:21
by Dromeno
BDraw looks promising but I have no idea how to use it in Lucid Pup 528005 (icewm as window manager)?

bdraw-1.61 reports "something is missing or doesn't work right" and "Double check requirements"

it is not an installable program so I do not know how to check for dependencies

bdraw-1.51 does work but it does not open existing png files, after I click on open picture the program returns to the Welcome to Bdraw dialog

Posted: Tue 29 Jan 2013, 16:04
by SFR
Hey Dromeno
bdraw-1.51 does work but it does not open existing png files, after I click on open picture the program returns to the Welcome to Bdraw dialog
BDraw won't load directly any other image type than .bdr (which is .svg really, but has "one-shape per one-line" layout).
If you'd like to include a .png image in your drawings, just choose "New" and then "Import Clipart" from Toolbox.
bdraw-1.61 reports "something is missing or doesn't work right" and "Double check requirements"

it is not an installable program so I do not know how to check for dependencies
Ok, just launch the app from command line and post the results...

Deps are listed in the first post, but I don't recall including anything new between 1.5.1 -> 1.6.

And since you're running Lupu always choose '<button>' as drawing area in initial window, unless you have upgraded Gtkdialog to >= 0.8.1

There were some problems with IceWM + specific theme(s?) reported earlier and it's been fixed in 1.5.1, but apparently I broke it again in 1.6.

Greetings!

Posted: Wed 30 Jan 2013, 10:29
by Dromeno
The console doesn't show much when I execute bdraw-1.6.sh (see screenshot)

But I am not sure yet if this is the tool I am looking for. What I would like to have is a simple screenshot annotation tool, something which does what shutter for ubuntu can or awesomscreenshot for chrome does
http://awesomescreenshot.com/
take a screenshot, add text / ellipses / arrows, perhaps a text bubble.
I know it can all be done with GIMP but it involves a lot of steps
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/create-spe ... hots-gimp/

Likely it can be done in mtPaint as well but I have not found a good tutorial yet

Posted: Wed 30 Jan 2013, 11:55
by SFR
What really matters - what's the terminal output when you click 'New', adjust resolution (or not) and click 'Ok'?
Also, what's the name of your current theme? I'll try to recreate the issue.

As for annotation tool, the purpose of BDraw is just to doodle (i.e. there's no arrows and stuff), but as a last resort, why not..? :wink: (see screenshot)

Greetings!

Terminal output after clicking click 'New

Posted: Thu 31 Jan 2013, 09:19
by Dromeno
Hi SFR

Using icewm theme ElbergBlue-anim

(but I do not think that is important since the same thing happens in JWM)

This is the terminal output after clicking click 'New':

sh-4.1# testbdraw

(gtkdialog5:23535): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_spin_button_new_with_range: assertion `step != 0.0' failed

(gtkdialog5:23535): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_spin_button_set_value: assertion `GTK_IS_SPIN_BUTTON (spin_button)' failed
**
ERROR:variables.c:166:variables_new_with_widget: assertion failed: (widget != NULL)
/usr/local/bin/bdraw-1.6.sh: line 1079: 23535 Aborted $GTKDIALOG -c -p MAIN
sh-4.1#

Posted: Thu 31 Jan 2013, 11:10
by SFR
Ok, I see that <spinbutton> has something to do with this, but I still cannot recreate the issue under Lupu...
Could you post the exact version of Gtkdialog(s) you have installed?

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gtkdialog --version
gtkdialog4 --version
gtkdialog5 --version
Also, it's worth to see how v1.6 works with pfix=ram and (it's a wild guess) with different GTK theme.

Meanwhile I attached version 1.6.1 - I replaced spinbuttons with comboboxtexts, as it was in v1.5.1, so hopefully will work ok for you now.

Greetings!

Posted: Thu 31 Jan 2013, 18:36
by rhadon
Hi SFR,

tested 1.6.1 with Slacko 5.4 today, and it's great :D . Really good work. Haven't tested everything, but what I did by now, worked.

Not so with 1.6. Program allways stops quite after choosing picture resolution.

Error message:

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# ./bdraw-1.6.sh

(gtkdialog4:26977): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_spin_button_new_with_range: assertion `step != 0.0' failed

(gtkdialog4:26977): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_spin_button_set_value: assertion `GTK_IS_SPIN_BUTTON (spin_button)' failed
**
ERROR:variables.c:189:variables_new_with_widget: assertion failed: (widget != NULL)
./bdraw-1.6.sh: line 1079: 26977 Aborted                 $GTKDIALOG -c -p MAIN
#
No matter I used my save file or pfix=ram, original gtkdialog 0.8.2 or new installed gtkdialog version 0.8.4 r503M. As you mentioned in your last post, there seemed to be a problem with the spinbuttons.

No problem for me, because 1.6.1 works fine :wink: .

Cheers and thanks again :D ,

Rolf

Posted: Thu 31 Jan 2013, 19:39
by SFR
Hey, thanks a lot for confirmation, Rolf. :D

But it still bugs me I can't recreate this. :?
Anyway, before I replace v1.6 with v1.6.1 in the first post officially, I'd like to test one more thing.

Rolf, if you have a couple of minutes to spare - could you check out this piece of code?
First dialog (taken from v1.6) should produce the above error...but how about subsequent ones..?
Also, there's official spinbutton example script which also works fine for me.

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#!/bin/bash

# This one should invoke GTK error
export MAIN_1='
<window>
  <vbox>
    <text><label>FIRST DIALOG</label></text>
    <hbox>
      <spinbutton range-max="100" range-step="1">
        <variable>SW</variable>
        <default>1</default>
      </spinbutton>        

      <spinbutton range-max="1.0" range-step="0.01">
         <variable>OPAC</variable>
         <default>1.0</default>
      </spinbutton>
    </hbox>
  
    <button><label>Next one please</label></button>
  </vbox>
</window>'

# How about this one?
export MAIN_2='
<window>
  <vbox>
    <text><label>SECOND DIALOG</label></text>
    <hbox>
      <spinbutton range-max="100" range-step="1">
        <variable>SW</variable>
        <default>1</default>
      </spinbutton>        

      <spinbutton range-max="1.00" range-step="0.01">
         <variable>OPAC</variable>
         <default>1.00</default>
      </spinbutton>
    </hbox>
  
    <button><label>Next one please</label></button>
  </vbox>
</window>'

# And finally how about that one...
export MAIN_3='
<window>
  <vbox>
    <text><label>THIRD DIALOG</label></text>
    <hbox>
      <spinbutton range-value="1" range-min="0" range-max="100" range-step="1">
        <variable>SW</variable>
      </spinbutton>        

      <spinbutton range-value="1.00" range-min="0.00" range-max="1.00" range-step="0.01">
         <variable>OPAC</variable>
      </spinbutton>
    </hbox>
    <button ok></button>
  </vbox>
</window>'

gtkdialog -p MAIN_1
gtkdialog -p MAIN_2
gtkdialog -p MAIN_3
Thanks again & Greetings!

Posted: Fri 01 Feb 2013, 09:21
by rhadon
Hi SFR,

it seems to be a general problem. spinbutton_advanced also doesn't work for me. Error code:

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# ./spinbutton_advanced

(gtkdialog:15952): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_spin_button_new_with_range: assertion `step != 0.0' failed

(gtkdialog:15952): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_spin_button_set_value: assertion `GTK_IS_SPIN_BUTTON (spin_button)' failed
**
ERROR:variables.c:189:variables_new_with_widget: assertion failed: (widget != NULL)
./spinbutton_advanced: line 89: 15952 Aborted                 $GTKDIALOG --program=MAIN_DIALOG
#
Error code from your snippet:

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# ./tst-bdraw

(gtkdialog:1920): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_spin_button_new_with_range: assertion `step != 0.0' failed

(gtkdialog:1920): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_spin_button_set_value: assertion `GTK_IS_SPIN_BUTTON (spin_button)' failed
**
ERROR:variables.c:189:variables_new_with_widget: assertion failed: (widget != NULL)
./tst-bdraw: line 63:  1920 Aborted                 gtkdialog -p MAIN_1

(gtkdialog:1929): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_spin_button_new_with_range: assertion `step != 0.0' failed

(gtkdialog:1929): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_spin_button_set_value: assertion `GTK_IS_SPIN_BUTTON (spin_button)' failed
**
ERROR:variables.c:189:variables_new_with_widget: assertion failed: (widget != NULL)
./tst-bdraw: line 64:  1929 Aborted                 gtkdialog -p MAIN_2

(gtkdialog:1950): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_spin_button_new_with_range: assertion `step != 0.0' failed

(gtkdialog:1950): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_spin_button_set_value: assertion `GTK_IS_SPIN_BUTTON (spin_button)' failed
**
ERROR:variables.c:189:variables_new_with_widget: assertion failed: (widget != NULL)
./tst-bdraw: line 65:  1950 Aborted                 gtkdialog -p MAIN_3
#
Hope this helps,

Rolf

Posted: Fri 01 Feb 2013, 10:08
by SFR
Thank you Rolf!

Looks like there's nothing I can do about it at the moment...

Ok, I have attached v1.6.1 in the first post.

Greetings!

gtkdialog output

Posted: Fri 01 Feb 2013, 10:33
by Dromeno
Here they are:

sh-4.1# gtkdialog --version
gtkdialog version 0.8.2 release (C) 2003-2007 Laszlo Pere, 2011-2012 Thunor
Built with additional support for: Glade.
sh-4.1# gtkdialog4 --version
gtkdialog version 0.8.0 (C) 2003-2007 Laszlo Pere, 2011 Thunor
sh-4.1# gtkdialog5 --version
gtkdialog version 0.8.2 release (C) 2003-2007 Laszlo Pere, 2011-2012 Thunor
Built with additional support for: Glade.
sh-4.1#

Posted: Fri 01 Feb 2013, 10:46
by SFR
Thanks for the info Dromeno

Looks ok...I have no idea why doesn't it work for you and Rolf, even with pfix=ram...
Hope v1.6.1 runs ok for you as well.

Greetings!

Posted: Fri 28 Jun 2013, 15:29
by SFR
Since v1.6.1 I've been dabbling in it from time to time, improving this and that, so here's version 1.7:
- removed 'preview' icon - preview is now always enabled;
- automatically detects Gtkdialog version and sets <button> or <pixmap> as drawing area;
- due to massive internal improvements and therefore much better performance, refresh interval has been lowered from 1000ms to 333ms;
Actually, on quite decent HW, it's okay even with 200-250ms (for example: my low-end Acer with AMD-C60 @ 1GHz is not such a hardware, but Toshiba with Intel i3 M330 @ 2.13GHz is).

This app is really a great training ground for learning how to optimize the code, lol.

First post updated!

Greetings!
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