Img4Dat

[Rolf Osterthun]

Hello Gerald,

the torso looks really good. I am happy to see that you are experimenting with the tool. From my point of view the postproduction is not good enough yet. For chaotic patters it is good, but for well-arranged curves and lines it is not.

Rolf, after using it and playing around more I do have some more requests/suggestions:

• Switch to block the Right Mouse Button to select colours in Left Window
  I am used to navigate around, respectively move something while pressing the RMB. (e.g. LDView) That had me select colors I did not want...
  
• Remove a colour from the Right Window by (right) Clicking on the Palette
  I can remove a color from the Right Window only if I right click in an area of this color. That can be difficult. It would be easier to remove it by right clicking on the color icon within the palette. (e.g. if a color is accidently selected)
  

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Even when it is not usefull from my point of view, I added a checkbox where you can set the colors as fixed. When the colors are not fixed a right click on a color button should also remove the color from the quantization now.

• Right Window resets when the Colour is changed or Tool is changed
  When I switch colours to fill areas or switch from "fill" to "draw" the right window resets to "top left", one needs to find the rgiht location again :-)
  
• Save Bitmap does not use the specified Path
  It always saves into the Img4Dat directory
  

These should be fixed.

• Draw Tool should also work when LMB is pressed
  Right now I can only set individual dots. It would be great if the tool could keep painting dots when I move the mouse, or even better draw a simple line when selecting two areas in the left window. That makes prepping the picture easier.
  

For small pictures it is working, but for larger pictures it is to slow. Maybe I will find a way to speed this up in a later version. Currently my workflow looks like this: Use img4dat for quantization. Save the bitmap. Use Paint for color corrections. Reopen in img4dat and search the paths...

• A one Step Undo
  :-)
  

Yeah - that would be nice. Later...

In the new version there are also minor additions:

• Circles and circle segments can now be replaced.
  
• When you select two points and use the s-key, the tool tries to select the shortest path between these two points. Then you can use merge (m), delete (d) or createCircleSegment ©.
  
• It should be possible now to define hard edges in the template by using line type 2 in the template file (the hard edge needs to be on an edge of a triangle)
  

A lot of refactoring was done - I hope it still works.

Rolf