[HN Gopher] XP Paint - A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
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XP Paint - A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
Author : chowderman
Score : 73 points
Date : 2020-07-09 03:09 UTC (19 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (chowderman.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (chowderman.github.io)
| mkup wrote:
| For some reason, I can't zoom via main menu (View/Zoom). Level 3
| menu just diappears. (My browser is Firefox if this matters.)
| Keyboard accelerators don't work either (e.g. Alt+V,Z,L). Only
| level 1 menu works via keyboard accelerator (Alt+V).
| nicoburns wrote:
| Is you like MS Paint art then you should check out Jim'll Paint
| It (https://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/ - also on facebook).
|
| He takes requests.
| chowderman wrote:
| Here is the repo as well: https://github.com/chowderman/xp-paint.
|
| Note: this is in no way affiliated with Microsoft, its merely a
| fan project based on my love of Windows XP
| rexreed wrote:
| This is awesome! I Still use Paint.Net in my VMWare emulator.
| There's some things in Paint.Net I really like including Crop
| to selection and things involving layers. If you ever plan to
| expand to include that, I'd be all ears!
| maxmcd wrote:
| How easy do you think it would be to create share links with
| the canvas state? Would be cool to share links to these things.
| bevenky wrote:
| Selecting using the box tool and delete should delete the
| selection :)
|
| Good work.
| captbaritone wrote:
| Looks like this is a fork of https://jspaint.app/
| bevenky wrote:
| This looks like Win98 paint :)
| joeraut wrote:
| They disclose this in the (beautifully done) about page.
| cpach wrote:
| What is the difference between those two?
| 2038AD wrote:
| This is a very good recreation. Pleased to see it even replicates
| the hidden zoom (below 8x). I also spot a good inaccuracy: the
| undo doesn't appear limited to 3 :-)
| moolcool wrote:
| The square brush tool is broken https://imgur.com/a/2CqIdhx
| jayd16 wrote:
| Same for me as well.
| somehnguy wrote:
| This version of MS Paint is like the peak example of covering 99%
| of basic use cases while being incredibly simple to use. Whenever
| I need to make an arbitrary image real quick I miss this version
| of Paint. Nothing else I can find in 2020 even comes close to its
| intuitive interface.
| smhenderson wrote:
| Isn't mspaint in Windows 10 basically the same thing but with a
| ribbon instead of a toolbar?
|
| I don't much care for the ribbon but I'm used to it now.
| Hitting WinKey-R, mspaint, [Enter] is still my goto for simple
| picture editing, even just recording a screenshot despite the
| existence of the snipping tool...
|
| Other than the minor annoyance of getting used to the ribbon I
| felt as if I was still using the same old paint when I did
| this.
| somehnguy wrote:
| It's similar but in my opinion with every release Microsoft
| makes their products slightly more unintuitive. This version
| of Paint is far simpler to view and instantly know what to
| click to get what you want.
| ChrisKnott wrote:
| Two things I dislike about the new Paint are;
|
| 1. Can't select secondary colour with right click
|
| 2. Needs way more clicks to get a filled Rectangle
| vbezhenar wrote:
| 1. Use shift+click.
| mumbisChungo wrote:
| Number 2 took me from using paint constantly to just using
| photoshop instead.
| m-p-3 wrote:
| If you need just a bit more functionality, I find Paint.NET to
| be quite good while not too complex.
| umvi wrote:
| > I miss this version of Paint
|
| Well you are in luck: https://archive.org/details/MSPaintWinXP
|
| I use this all the time on my Windows 10 box.
|
| Just download, rename to "mspaintxp.exe" and put it in
| C:\Windows\System32. Optionally update Paint shortcut to point
| to that one so when you type "Paint" in start menu that's the
| new default.
| microcolonel wrote:
| If you're looking to run it with Wine, you'll also want a
| copy of the IA32 version of mfc42u.dll.
|
| added: totally necessary proof
| https://qui.suis.je/drop/peakfun.png
| grapeli23 wrote:
| It also works in the browser under JSLinux in Wine
| (requires mfc42u.dll). https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?
| url=alpine-x86-xwin.cfg&...
| notJim wrote:
| In fact, you don't need to go to all this trouble if you
| don't want to. Someone has made a web-based version of paint
| you can use right from your browser, even if you don't have
| Windows installed. Link: https://chowderman.github.io/xp-
| paint.html
| MayeulC wrote:
| Kolourpain is better. It does transparency, fill with a
| configurable distance, and supports more file formats. Other
| than these, it's quite similar :)
|
| https://kde.org/applications/graphics/org.kde.kolourpaint
|
| http://www.kolourpaint.org/screenshots.html (that website could
| use an update...)
| Supermancho wrote:
| Photoshop is better, or should I say
| https://www.photopea.com/
|
| Is Kolourpaint available as a website I can visit right now?
| Lots of editors are "better" from a feature standpoint.
| That's not the feature that is relevant to the discussion.
| _nickwhite wrote:
| In 1993 I was 12 years old and spent many, many hours drawing a
| pixel-perfect replica of the Mortal Kombat dragon logo in MS
| Paintbrush (the name of MS Paint at the time). I believe it was a
| 640x480 BMP. I so wish I had saved a copy of this and all of the
| other stuff I downloaded off bulletin boards! Stuff like this got
| me started in web graphics, HTML, and eventually sysadmin.
|
| To this day I still take screenshots (PrtScn) and save them using
| pbrush (WinKey+R pbrush).
| ape4 wrote:
| Is anyone else having trouble going View > Zoom > Normal
| c9fc42ad wrote:
| These always miss my favorite hidden feature of mspaint: Control
| + Scrolling should be able to increase/decrease the size of the
| brush to sizes much larger than you can normally select. Instead,
| this just zooms the browser but maybe it could be changed to alt
| + scroll or something.
| user1234568 wrote:
| There is also https://jspaint.app/
| lajawfe wrote:
| So is this just a fork of https://jspaint.app/ with styling
| changes?
| [deleted]
| ry4nolson wrote:
| yep says so in the Help > About modal
|
| "XP Paint is a fork of the web-based remake of MS Paint called
| JS Paint."
| n-gauge wrote:
| Nice job! (Would like to see Ctrl + e focus into the first value
| box)
| consultutah wrote:
| The best version of paint. ;)
| chowderman wrote:
| you know it! It had a sleek and modern look for the time, while
| still having the simplicity and user-friendliness of MS Paint
| from Win 95/98. really wish this version of paint was still
| supported in Win 10
| crumpled wrote:
| A sleek and modern look for the time? The basic UI was
| already over a decade old! (paintbrush)
|
| It's cool that you like it, but that's a surprising way to
| describe it. As I recall (as a user of windows 3.1, 95, ME
| and XP), the consensus was that Paint was a retro holdover,
| like Minesweeper and Solitaire. People appreciated it in a
| kitschy retro way.
|
| We still have Notepad.
| smhenderson wrote:
| And Ubuntu still ships with ed. Some people like their
| "retro" tools that have shipped with the OS since early
| versions.
| matjazdrolc wrote:
| Surely it can be packed as an Electron app?
| pantaloony wrote:
| I wouldn't be surprised if a stripped-to-the-bone
| installation of WinXP in a VM, running only Paint, is
| lighter on system resources than Electron running this.
| CyberDildonics wrote:
| Why would you do that? If it runs in a web page, it could
| be condensed to a single .html file.
| glerk wrote:
| Small bug: on Brave browser, the "fill" tool is not covering 100%
| of the pixels https://i.imgur.com/Ej6owmI.png
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