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#121535 - 17/10/2002 10:40 Suggestions for Logoedit
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31600
Loc: Seattle, WA
I haven't updated the Empeg Logo Editor in almost two years.

There seems to be a bug in the upload.c code, and when I fix that (assuming I even can fix it), I'll release a new build of the logo editor program to go with it. Anyone have any suggestions on additional MINOR improvements I could make to logo editor? Things that would only take a minute to do?

Examples of things I will do, and the types of suggestions I'm looking for:

- Fix bug in upload.c that causes "failed to get echoback on lock" error.
- Improve the text on the main menu so that erasing a logo and switching between the Rio/Empeg personality is more obvious.

Examples of things that are too big and I won't be doing so don't suggest them:

- Create a rubber-band tool for the drawing window.
- Multi-level undo.
- Animation editor.
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#121536 - 17/10/2002 10:54 Re: Suggestions for Logoedit [Re: tfabris]
ricin
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Registered: 19/06/2000
Posts: 1495
Loc: US: CA
How about the ability to pull the logo (and animation) back off the player, if hijack is installed? Since it's just a simple ftp transfer...
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#121537 - 17/10/2002 10:56 Re: Suggestions for Logoedit [Re: ricin]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31600
Loc: Seattle, WA
Nice idea, but I'd have to write a whole new module for that since I'm not doing any FTP at all yet. Too big for what I want to do.
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#121538 - 17/10/2002 11:02 Re: Suggestions for Logoedit [Re: tfabris]
ricin
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Damn, but you're using VB right? There are tons of FTP client libraries already written.
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#121539 - 17/10/2002 11:07 Re: Suggestions for Logoedit [Re: ricin]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31600
Loc: Seattle, WA
Hmm. Maybe if it's easy, I'll try it.
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#121540 - 17/10/2002 11:48 Re: Suggestions for Logoedit [Re: tfabris]
tonyc
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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But does it run on Linux?

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#121541 - 17/10/2002 11:49 Re: Suggestions for Logoedit [Re: tonyc]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31600
Loc: Seattle, WA
<smartass>

No.

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#121542 - 17/10/2002 14:33 Re: Suggestions for Logoedit [Re: tfabris]
papinist
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Registered: 30/12/2001
Posts: 119
Loc: Italy
I don't know how much complicated is this, so feel free to ignore it:

- the ability to upload the AnnaVU, TuxTooMuch and similar images (I don't remember if these want the compressed format or not); obviously not the ImagePan one
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#121543 - 17/10/2002 14:39 Re: Suggestions for Logoedit [Re: papinist]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31600
Loc: Seattle, WA
Hmm. Maybe. I'll look at it.
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#121544 - 17/10/2002 14:49 Re: Suggestions for Logoedit [Re: tfabris]
loren
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Registered: 23/08/2000
Posts: 3826
Loc: SLC, UT, USA
yeah! that's a great idea... it'd be cool to have the image upload type stuff all in one place.
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#121545 - 17/10/2002 14:52 Re: Suggestions for Logoedit [Re: loren]
Laura
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Registered: 16/06/2000
Posts: 1682
Loc: Greenhills, Ohio
That would be a great feature and I hope that would include the image pan.
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#121546 - 17/10/2002 14:59 Re: Suggestions for Logoedit [Re: Laura]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31600
Loc: Seattle, WA
Well, see, the trick is that the software was hard-coded to edit a pair of 128x32 images. To add an ImagePan editor, I'd have to rework a bunch of the low-level bits of the way the window and screen are drawn. Also, I would have to incorporate the RLE compression algorithm into my code to compress the image pan image. All of that is more work than I wanted to go to right now.

BUT... The TuxMuch and AnnaVu images are already the right size. And they don't have to be RLE-compressed. And if I'm adding FTP code to grab images from the player, then it's not a big deal to have it throw those images back TO the player.

So there's more of a chance that you'd get AnnaVu/TuxMuch in there than Image Pan.
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#121547 - 17/10/2002 15:48 Re: Suggestions for Logoedit [Re: tfabris]
jets
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Registered: 08/07/2002
Posts: 237
Loc: Toronto, Canada
I'd like to be able to select what 2 colors I can have associated with each of the mouse buttons at any given time. Right now, right click is always black.
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#121548 - 17/10/2002 15:49 Re: Suggestions for Logoedit [Re: tfabris]
Laura
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Registered: 16/06/2000
Posts: 1682
Loc: Greenhills, Ohio
I'll put it on my Christmas wish list then
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#121549 - 17/10/2002 16:10 Re: Suggestions for Logoedit [Re: jets]
tfabris
carpal tunnel

Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31600
Loc: Seattle, WA
I'd like to be able to select what 2 colors I can have associated with each of the mouse buttons at any given time. Right now, right click is always black.

Hmm. I've got other editors which do that, so I understand your need for the feature. However that's more than I wanted to bite off at this time (it would take some user interface changes).

I kinda liked the way it worked so that right button was always erase, but to each his own.
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#121550 - 17/10/2002 16:25 Re: Suggestions for Logoedit [Re: tfabris]
JBjorgen
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Registered: 19/01/2002
Posts: 3584
Loc: Columbus, OH
AOL on the Anna VU and TuxTooMuch updates....much needed.
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#121551 - 17/10/2002 16:33 Re: Suggestions for Logoedit [Re: tfabris]
jets
enthusiast

Registered: 08/07/2002
Posts: 237
Loc: Toronto, Canada
I kinda liked the way it worked so that right button was always erase, but to each his own.

this is true...hmm. well, it's no biggie but if ya ever get around to it that would be a neat addition.
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#121552 - 18/10/2002 05:04 Re: Suggestions for Logoedit [Re: tfabris]
frog51
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Registered: 09/08/2000
Posts: 2091
Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland
I reckon it does literally everything I need it to. Nice and straightforward/easy. It is still my favourite method for uploading new hijack versions.

I guess my only wishlist item is also probably a difficult one - intelligent antialiasing so I don't need to manually make my curves smooth.
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#121553 - 20/10/2002 10:33 Re: Suggestions for Logoedit [Re: tonyc]
mschrag
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Registered: 09/09/2000
Posts: 2303
Loc: Richmond, VA
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