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SCI Development Tools / Re: Picture Editor written in Java

« on: December 13, 2010, 01:43:45 AM »

I might give it a go then. I'll add it to the list of features for version 1.3. I already have a fairly long list of features I've put together myself.

I should point out that an import/export capability isn't going to be perfect for what should be obvious reasons. What I'm imaging is that you'd export the picture to SCI0 and then (assuming PICEDIT didn't have SCI0 editing capabilities at the time) you would load it into a SCI0 editor and fix it up.

Of course if PICEDIT supported full editing of the SCI0 picture then it wouldn't need to be exported.

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SCI Development Tools / Picture Editor written in Java

« on: December 13, 2010, 12:55:06 AM »

Hi all,

You may or may not be aware that I recently released a Java version of my PICEDIT AGI picture editing tool. I posted about it in the AGI tools forum:

http://sciprogramming.com/community/index.php/topic,365.0.html

The reason I have raised the topic again here is that as I was writing the tool, I thought to myself that it wouldn't take much to make it support SCI0 pictures as well. Would that be something that people in the SCI community would be interested in?

I guess support for SCI0 could range anywhere from an import/export from/to SCI0 pictures...   all the way up to supporting full editing of SCI0 pictures.

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AGI Development Tools / New Java version of PICEDIT (AGI Picture Editor)

« on: December 13, 2010, 12:30:57 AM »

Hi all,

I've been away from the AGI community for about a decade but recently my interest was renewed again. For some reason I felt like revisiting my AGI picture editor tool PICEDIT. I've been a Java developer for the past 13 years and have no desire to write C code anymore, so I decided as a starting point to extending PICEDIT I would rewrite the tool in Java. I have now completed this conversion to Java and the first beta release is available on my new web site below:

www.agifans.com

I'd be very keen for as many AGI/SCI fanmade game fans as possible to download PICEDIT 1.2.1 and let me know what you think. You'll need to download and install Java 6 first but after that all you'll need to do is double click on the downloaded PICEDIT 1.2.1 JAR file. The good thing about it being written in Java is that it is instantly available for all platforms... so you'll be able to run it on Windows (XP/Vista/7), Linux, Mac, etc.

It is very likely that there are still bugs in it so I apologise in advance for this. What I'm really looking for is testers though. I'll fix bugs as soon as they are reported.

From this point I'm hoping to add a lot more features. At the moment it is almost the same as the original PICEDIT 1.2 that I released back in 1997. Over the next month or so I'll be adding many more features. It would be good to get some suggestions from the AGI and SCI community about the features that should be added.

I look forward to hearing all of your feedback.


Lance