PixelPaint

[Jaberwoky]

PixelPaint is a program I threw together in an afternoon using RubyGame.
It's a very simple paint program where you can paint a 32x32 image using 16 colors:

The main purpose of the program is that you can export these images as special text files.
You can then play these text files into an IRC channel, and assuming you don't get kicked for flooding, it'll show up as your picture:

And that's why it's limited to 32x32 and 16 colors.

It's very simple to use. You click (or right click) on a color in the palette to select your colors just like in mspaint. Then you just click (or right click) on a square in the grid to color it. You can also use the arrow keys to shift the entire drawing around. The textbox on the bottom is the filename it will load/save/export to. There is no overwrite confirmation because I am lazy. The clear button will blank out the grid. There is no confirmation because I am lazy. The save button will just dump the grid data into a file. You can use it to share your designs with other people who have PixelPaint. Load will load these files up. The export button will convert your drawing into an IRC-ready text file. It will automatically crop the image from the top/bottom/right, so there won't be any unnecessary blank areas in your text file.

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[Glitchfinder]

Change it to 32x32 and CapnHoohah will have a blast respriting Pokémon to post in IRC. Anyway, nice work.

 

[Jaberwoky]

Done.
Also fixed the various problems that would occur when loading drawings made in different grid dimensions.

 

[friend]

hm, do you execute this with "ruby pixelpaint.rbw"?

I've tried it and I get some sdl errors or something.

 

[game_guy]

For people who dont have ruby or rubygame you can compile it into an exe.
Try this
http://ocra.rubyforge.org/

Also, works very well thanks ;3

 

[Jaberwoky]

hm, do you execute this with "ruby pixelpaint.rbw"?

I've tried it and I get some sdl errors or something.

You should be able to just double-click it.

For people who dont have ruby or rubygame you can compile it into an exe.
Try this
http://ocra.rubyforge.org/

I tried that at first and couldn't get it to work. Messed around with it and figured it out, though. Apparently I needed to paste the entire code into a new folder in the same directory named "src", then run ocra on the original one... for some reason. I don't know.
Anyways, there is now a compiled .exe version with a couple of errors fixed:
http://www.mediafire.com/?fn26dw7ah88745c

 

[game_guy]

Weird. I cant seem to run either the .exe or .rbw and I do have rubygame installed I think. I installed the gem. But it wont run for me =\

 

[Jaberwoky]

Dir.chdir File.dirname(__FILE__)
Forgot that one line, so it'd only run in C:\pixelpaint ._.

Here's the fixed version (I hope?):
http://www.mediafire.com/?ut6h3a303x6f90a

 

[friend]

Running the .exe dosen't do anything, and yes my directory is exactly C:\pixelpaint

 

[Jaberwoky]

I dunno what's up with it, then. It runs fine for me :/
Maybe I have some dependency installed that I don't know about, or something.

Here's the updated source, at any rate: http://www.mediafire.com/?1n2l04yrbd8mx8o
I give up for now ._.

 

[bashful crobat]

you are aware that hbgames is about to become even less peaceful than before, right?

 

[Ellie]

Wow, that's cool. I might download in a sec and have a play around with it.

 

[Jaberwoky]

I came back to this and gave it another shot. I think I've got it figured out now. Probably.
Anyone mind trying it out for me?

http://www.mediafire.com/?8cy5q6zbn7lnojy

It should only need ruby installed to work.
...probably.