[Mypaint-discuss] [CREATE] Multiple viewports (for MyPaint, but Gimp/Krita/whoever too?)

[Ben O'Steen]

David,

Not to distract from this thread too much, but can you say more about
what you'd like about a self-contained palette? I've been working on
something like that for a few days:

http://www.vimeo.com/26586840 -- shows the more complex one showing
all the different file-saving methods.

At the moment, the version in my repo is a very simple persistent
palette that saves on exit, separately to the canvas.

There is a glitch however that I am trying to track down - undocking
and docking causes the canvas in the scratchpad to shift. It makes it
look like it's cleared the canvas, whereas it's only panned it in a
certain direction.

Andrew - do you know what might be causing this?

Ben

On 21 July 2011 13:12, David REVOY <davidrevoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> here my 2 cents about split-view discution:
>
> * For the split view for 'poor man's overview widget' ( ex : 'full image
> preview' + 'detail preview'  ) :
> I would prefer a floating windows in most of case for this usage, because a
> pure split consume more area on the screen ( a full column or a row ) , and
> a second floating windows can be reduced as a thumbsize, be moved on a
> second screen, etc...
> Ref :
> http://www.ctrlpaint.com/home/2011/3/24/painting-details-using-two-windows.html
>
> * For split view as a zoom 'palette in the corner'. Here I don't think this
> is a good practise. Building a palette in a corner or somewhere directly on
> the artwork is always obstrusive, or not respect the final file dimension (
> painting outside ). This lead often to problem for artist. Here, a split
> view would be more consuming IMO. The best solution I tested so far is the
> 'image docker' done by Silvio Heinrich on Krita : a resizable docker where
> you can load a picture with the default behavior of color picking while
> cursor/pointer is over.
> A panel like this can be used to load reference, a screenshot of Gpick, a
> color palette from another not compatible app, a self-painted palette,
> etc... As a user ; I would prefer to see the *.ora file containing special
> layer to contain this kind of ref files and palette...
>
> So, in absolute I'm not really for this split view in Mypaint; because the
> need of 2D artist is not as the splitted 3D viewport of Blender. That's why
> I'm asking if the effort to port a feature like this to a standard in *.ora
> worth it...
>
>  But I'm also exited about split view feature on Mypaint , because for the
> moment having a full preview or a palette area is impossible and furstrating
> for Mypaint users.  So , as I know this feature can poorly answer to some of
> user needs and is a low hanging fruit to grab because already in a branch ;
> I prefer to say 'better than nothing'  ; yey , we want it  !
>
> Ref : I tested month ago the branch made by Andrew Chadwick with a single
> split. Btw, splitview with independant mirror view was awesome to fake a
> mirror feature ; that suited my need to detail symetric characters ( even if
> I have to copy paste the half in Gimp after saving in Mypaint )
> My test screenshot :
> http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/6956/mypaintsplitscreen.jpg
> http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/6369/mypaintmirrorwithsplitv.jpg
>
>
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