As well as normal blending layers can now be combined with modes such as "Multiply","Divide" etc. The list of modes supported is currently:
Normal Multiply Divide Add Subtract Difference Hue Saturation Color Value
Paint Tool Blend Modes All the modes above can be applied with the Paint Tool.
Extended Path Support Incuding Splines Paths introduce in 1.7 can now consist of PolySplines. The fill alogorthm has been improved (with antialiasing in the horizontal axis). The experimental text tool has been adapted to use the new splines and creates better quality text as a result.
ARexx port based input wedges (plugins) As an alternative to the existing input wedge scripst, scripts can now declare an ARexx port to receive input data. This makes maintaining state much easier and allows far more complex plugins with simpler code.
Two new plugins have been written
Curves: Uses a single open path to create and draw a wide range of curves. Filled Boxes: Another advance script using a cosed polyspline to draw filled boxes with rounded corners. Many paremeters are variable, resulting in a wide range of box styles.
Thanks for that, didn't get far with your tutorial, think I'm not doing something right, would really like to learn this package, has the potential to replace Photogenics me thinks
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Thanks again for your fabulous software, is there a Vignette option or one planned? I love this feature in Photogenics and would be nice to have it in SketchBlock too
I will make another donation to show my support
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If you mean create a soft border round a photo image etc. Then you could do that with the fill boxes script in the wedges menu.
Create a new layer.
Choose a soft brush and stroke the box but dont fill it. Then fill outside the borders with the paint tool. Apply the gaussian blur from the convolve menu a few times, if you need to soften further.
I assume sicky means the little colour picker which can change the current colour to that of any pixel on the existing picture. Its icon is one of those tube things with a bubble on the end, used for picking up small quantities of liquid and dispensing it elsewhere one drop at a time. I can't remember what they're called.
I really must update my Sketchblock, I haven't looked at any of the recent versions.
I assume sicky means the little colour picker which can change the current colour to that of any pixel on the existing picture. Its icon is one of those tube things with a bubble on the end, used for picking up small quantities of liquid and dispensing it elsewhere one drop at a time. I can't remember what they're called.
If he means that then that's dead easy, press ctrl whilst in the paint tool, the mouse will chnage to a 'pipette' aka knowns as 'one of those tube things with a bubble on the end, used for picking up small quantities of liquid and dispensing it elsewhere one drop at a time' and click anywhere in an image. Been a feature since 1.1
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I really must update my Sketchblock, I haven't looked at any of the recent versions.
It's now supported by AmiUpdate. If you have an old version instaled but haven't run it for long enough to keep it in the AppDir: cache then run it once and then scan for updates, if you've run it more recently then it should just appear.
It only downloads at the moment, no AutoInstall yet.
@Andy Cool stuff as usuall. You already pretty far with it, few more versions, few more plugins and then it can be kind of the best of all the painters on os4 :)
For now testing new features, and as i read in docs, FilledBox widges should spawn some kind of GUI window, where you can change the details, or its about that gui from Layers/Tools windowses ? Why i ask, its because even after i install latest PIL and latest ProAction (and run necessary icon from) and do reboot, and choice FilledBoxes, i still didn't have any new gui window spawned.
And next question: it is possible to add to sketchblock prefs something like "auto remove of widget once drawing (or final action) is done" ?
Cool stuff as usuall. You already pretty far with it, few more versions, few more plugins and then it can be kind of the best of all the painters on os4 :)
Cheers.
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For now testing new features, and as i read in docs, FilledBox widges should spawn some kind of GUI window, where you can change the details,
Hmm that's odd. Do you see any error reports printed to console?
Are you running SketchBlock on it's own screen or workbench?
Do any of the other tools open a window? For instance, Export As .... in the Project menu should open a window with a list of file types.
Is the Non GUI part of it still working? That is, do you see the framework surrounding the box on the project window, and can you drag it arround?
And next question: it is possible to add to sketchblock prefs something like "auto remove of widget once drawing (or final action) is done" ?
Scripts can be so varied that this is not a good idea.
Some do allready 'autoremove' eg MoveLayer only works once then you need to reselect it (which is annoying, I may change that)
I'm working towards a convention where pressing ESC quits the current script plugin, or if it has a GUI, both ESC or the Close button. (I'm going to drop the name 'wedges' as I borrowed it from ImageFX but my script plugins are starting to become quite different to ImageFX's wedges)
I.e. i press on widge, it spawn such a box, and i can resize it, move it, and use D for make actual drawing. I also can change color via main tool window gui, but i didnt have any additional gui spawned..
Quote: Are you running SketchBlock on it's own screen or workbench?
Wb one.
I found the issue.
I forgot to set WA_PubScreenFallBack, so if it couldn' open it's window on the named screen it just failed to open.
What's happing is that SketchBlock by default tries open on a screen named SketchBlock (defined in the pref.xml file) if it doesn't it falls back onto the workbench screen. Most of the scripts do too but this one I overlooked.
If you want to run on WorkBench by pupose rather than default then edit the line
<pubscreenname>SketchBlock</pubscreenname>
in the prefs.xml file
(Change SketchBlock to Workbench naturally )
Or define a screen SketchBlock then all will work okay. Or specify any other screen of your choise (must be 16bit ot deeper 32 recomended).
PS there arguably a bug in the scripting interface too, as SketchBlock is returning the Screen Name of the screen it *tried* to open on not the screen it actually opened on.
Also trying to play now with ctrl+z (for undo) heavy, and some actions can't be undo. I for example draw some #OOPS#, then convolve/full sobel, then few filled boxes, and then ctrl+z can only bring me at stage of "before sobel". But by logic it all should be undos till empty first page (but i assume you aware about all of this already:) ). I assume its something about sketch making a new layer when do sobel + jumping on it as default after, and ctrl+z fail to back that action.
If you mean create a soft border round a photo image etc. Then you could do that with the fill boxes script in the wedges menu.
Create a new layer.
Choose a soft brush and stroke the box but dont fill it. Then fill outside the borders with the paint tool. Apply the gaussian blur from the convolve menu a few times, if you need to soften further.
Yes that's the sort of thing I meant. For example image results in being oval shaped fading to white (or whatever background colour), it's quite often seen in old style photos if you get what I mean? It was so easy to do in Photogenics as you just selected the tool and set the area and size to apply, sorry if I'm not explaining this very well!
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I see the requirement for the user to manually add an assign is gone: SketchBlock creates the assign itself at startup (and removes it after you quit). Thank you, this is the right approach! Users don't care that your program's components need an assign to run correctly, so don't bother them with internal stuff.
Speaking of improving user experience: have you possibly thought of using tabbed palettes in a single toolbox window, instead of several floating windows? What I mean is that you could do with one toolbox window in which the Sketch Tools and Layers palettes would be accessible from tabs. This would reduce screen clutter.
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