Can't belive that someone skilled go that hard route called "make a normal paint app for os4". Brave ones deserve good donations and i will do soon more for sure.

Andy, if you will not give up on it, i am sure it will small replacement of photoshop in his early days :)

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Quick feedback as I just downloaded it to try it out.

1) It asks for the device Sketchblock: on loading so I just assigned it to the drawer I downloaded. Read the documentation afterwards that told me this, however an Installer would be useful to do trivial stuff.

2) The Sketch Tools and Layers sub-windows are set to Always on Top which is kinda annoying if you have other stuff open.

3) Finally, these same two windows can never be set to 'Active' when clicking on GUI elements of the window; however this is more of an observation than a genuine problem - I assumes its a way to ensure focus always remain on the artwork window. Just seems odd the first time you observe it.

Anyway... looks good so far and as kas1e says... a bold challenge.

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1) It asks for the device Sketchblock: on loading so I just assigned it to the drawer I downloaded. Read the documentation afterwards that told me this, however an Installer would be useful to do trivial stuff.

I'll write an installer later on when the design is more stabilised, other wise it'll just be amoving target.

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2) The Sketch Tools and Layers sub-windows are set to Always on Top which is kinda annoying if you have other stuff open.

Yes but press tab an the go away, press again to reopen. Probably make it an option at some point.

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3) Finally, these same two windows can never be set to 'Active' when clicking on GUI elements of the window; however this is more of an observation than a genuine problem - I assumes its a way to ensure focus always remain on the artwork window. Just seems odd the first time you observe it.

They use the new ToolBox attribute, it ,as you say, allows to to modify tools settings without changing the focus from th sketch window. It was afeature request Might make it an option

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Ah, TAB key... nice touch, just like with PS... didn't think to press it. :)

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Thanks Andy i like it a lot

Just found a quick crash on my system, i had a layer selected (i just draw a simple and casual image) then when i click on the red button (the remove layer one) i got an immediate DSI crash

Here it is:

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Crash log for task "SketchBlock" Generated by GrimReaper 53.2 Crash occured in module SketchBlock at address 0x6E616654 Type of crash: DSI (Data Storage Interrupt) exception Register dump: GPR (General Purpose Registers): 0: 6E6139D4 532DB900 00000000 00000000 56EF336C 00001000 0196AB64 532DB708 8: 00000056 00000000 5FFB8420 021BD7F6 40442022 56F33A28 00000000 00000000 16: 56F27680 56F30000 56F30000 00000280 000001E0 00000087 57BBCA40 50426018 24: 00000A00 56EF30B0 00000001 80000007 80000002 80000001 00000077 00000000 FPR (Floating Point Registers, NaN = Not a Number): 0: nan nan 1.39065e-309 0 4: 0 23.8 23.8 0 8: 0 2.78132e-309 23.8 0 12: 0 0 0 -5.05923e-321 16: 0 1.39067e-309 0 0 20: 0 0 0 1.61895e-319 24: 4.94066e-324 0 1.08753e-311 -4.07294e-35 28: 0 1.35808e-312 2.06029e-289 1.04169e+21 FPSCR (Floating Point Status and Control Register): 0xA6302100 SPRs (Special Purpose Registers): Machine State (msr) : 0x0002F030 Condition (cr) : 0x20442048 Instruction Pointer (ip) : 0x6E616654 Xtended Exception (xer) : 0x00000008 Count (ctr) : 0x01816208 Link (lr) : 0x6E6139D4 DSI Status (dsisr) : 0x00000000 Data Address (dar) : 0x00000010 680x0 emulated registers: DATA: 53C7E168 00000082 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ADDR: 00000000 56EFE3A4 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 532DB710 FPU0: 0 0 0 0 FPU4: 0 0 0 0 Symbol info: Instruction pointer 0x6E616654 belongs to module "SketchBlock" (PowerPC) Symbol: DrawLayerBoundingBox + 0x18 in section 1 offset 0x00008634 Stack trace: DrawLayerBoundingBox()+0x18 (section 1 @ 0x8634) DisplayProject()+0x3F4 (section 1 @ 0x59b4) arxRemoveLayer()+0x5C (section 1 @ 0x2ad00) module CLASSES:arexx.class at 0x6F9E7E64 (section 5 @ 0xE44) native kernel module intuition.library.kmod+0x00018178 native kernel module intuition.library.kmod+0x0001839c native kernel module intuition.library.kmod+0x00008424 native kernel module intuition.library.kmod+0x00008064 Handlearexx()+0x38 (section 1 @ 0x12378) main()+0x224 (section 1 @ 0x40c) native kernel module newlib.library.kmod+0x00002054 native kernel module newlib.library.kmod+0x00002ca0 native kernel module newlib.library.kmod+0x00002e64 _start()+0x170 (section 1 @ 0x170) native kernel module dos.library.kmod+0x00022a0c native kernel module kernel+0x0003af48 native kernel module kernel+0x0003afc8 PPC disassembly: 6e61664c: 7c7f1b78 mr r31,r3 6e616650: 93c10058 stw r30,88(r1) *6e616654: 80630010 lwz r3,16(r3) 6e616658: 9361004c stw r27,76(r1) 6e61665c: 83c3002c lwz r30,44(r3) System information: CPU Model: AMCC PPC440EP V1.3 CPU speed: 799 MHz FSB speed: 133 MHz Extensions:

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Sketch Block really looks promising. Thanks Andy

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Just found a quick crash on my system, i had a layer selected (i just draw a simple and casual image) then when i click on the red button (the remove layer one) i got an immediate DSI crash

I presume that was the last layer you removed? If so found and fixed. Thatnks for the report.

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Thanks for this update!

Andy, the link in the news is broken and should be http://os4depot.net/share/graphics/edit/sketchblock_1_3_20120310.lha

Cordialy,
Petrol.

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Ah that's what gone wrong. Whoever updated the archive on os4depot.net forgot to rename the archive before publishing it.

How did you work that out?

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Is there a way to get the new Timberwolf to play your video?

I do not own anything but Amiga computers.

ggw

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I'd recomend using clipdown or similar to download the vid then play it mplayer.

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Great work! SketchBlock is fast, fluid and very stable here on my Sam-flex.

We need more native development like this!

Looking forward to future updates.

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@petrol

Thank you for pointing that out, wondered why I couldn't get file!

@broadblues

Thank you for this excellent program, will have a play when I finish my week of nights!

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100% true

@broadblues

Always active project window! ... thanks a lot. It feels much better now
I will do more tests later.

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@all
Thanks for the postive comments.

I'm quite pleased with the speed of it on my SAM, it's faster than GIMP on my linuxbox. On GIMP the largest image I can comfortably work on is about 1600 pixels square, on SketchBlock this afternoon I painted a 3000 x 2500 painting, with two layers. That's a result as far as I'm concerned.

My design goals will be to maintain that as I add features.

BTW in the Rexx drawer you find a benchbitmap.rexx script that give an idea of how fast it;s running on your system.

For example:

On my SAM Flex 733 I get.

9.Programing:Projects/SketchBlock/SketchBlock/distribution> rx Rexx/benchbitmap.rexx
Circles 4425.32268 Pixels/ sec

If I choose the 'Circles' brush and start the script.

Anything over 2000 is acceptable IMHO.

The value is a guide to the speed at which you can move the brush and have it keep up with you.

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I presume that was the last layer you removed? If so found and fixed. Thatnks for the report.

Yes it was ! thanks for the quick fix

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Excellent program, it feels great sketchin` and now I am considering a tablet (never thought about it, but this program really inspires!).
Which one would be compatible with OS4? Pressure/angle etc are supported in OS4?

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It was actually answered before.
What about the Wacom tablets? The features I mentioned above? Has anybody tried them?

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A strange output window message pops up
"Button Loading failed 5E16EB78 5EF11E18 5FFFF800"
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