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Paint .NET

Started by Brian Glass, 2006-04-25T17:39:08-05:00 (Tuesday)

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Brian Glass

Looking for a nice free piece of software to add to your arsenal.  Give Paint.NET a try.  It produces very nice images comparable to photoshop.  If you're looking for something to tinker around with download it here.  They have forums for the community too.  Check it all out.  I think it would be neat to see it installed on the CS computers.

Here's something that took like 5 minutes to produce.
[img align=left]http://www.gl-computers.com/Paint.NET/glassman324.png[/img]

R. Andrew Lamonica

I like this program too.  I use in on my home computer all the time.  The most interesting part of this program is that it was developed as a CS senior project at WSU.  MS was so impressed that they have apparently started funding its continued development.

Download Paint.NET

P.S. It is open-source.

Brian Glass

So is there any chance that it will be available on the CS computers?

R. Andrew Lamonica

That could be arranged.  It seems to work fine as a non-admin on my home computer so the labs are not unreasonable.  It will take a while to roll-out because this is not agood time of the semester to ghost labs.

Stiffler

Open Source?

Does this mean we can port it to Linux? Or has that already begun?
Retired webmaster of CAOS.

Bryan

porting a .net application to linux...I'm just not even sure where to begin on that.
Bryan Grubaugh
Quickly aging alumni with too much time on his hands
Business Systems Analyst, Scripps Networks.

Stiffler

You begin with Mono. :P And work your way from there.  :lol:
Retired webmaster of CAOS.

R. Andrew Lamonica

For many .NET applications no porting is necessary.  .NET compiles to a byte-code called "IL" (Intermediate language) that is a similar to Java Byle-Code in that it can be executed anywhere there is a framework.  Microsoft provides a free framework for most windows versions and the Mono Project provides support for most other platforms.  

Once Mono is installed you just type:

mono ./YourDotNetExecutable.exe in the directory with you .NET executable to run it.

P.S. Those of you who think this makes .NET a poor choice for fast applications should read about JIT Compilation.

P.P.S. Long time not see Stiffler.

Bryan

I think my sarcasm was lost on stiffler and that's a good bit of info Andrew
Bryan Grubaugh
Quickly aging alumni with too much time on his hands
Business Systems Analyst, Scripps Networks.

Stiffler

Been busy. :P Yeah. The sarcasm wasn't lost. :P But I guess my humor isn't too good. I need to work on that. :P Ah well.

Well, I was hoping that there would be a better way to run it instead of using the mono command to run it. Like in Windows you can just douple click on it and it will start. I am just not familiar with .NET on Linux, though, I have set up Apache on Linus to run ASP.Net stuff. That was actually a pain to do.

Cheers
Retired webmaster of CAOS.