[HN Gopher] MS Paint IDE ___________________________________________________________________ MS Paint IDE Author : scoopertrooper Score : 160 points Date : 2021-06-12 05:14 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (ms-paint-i.de) (TXT) w3m dump (ms-paint-i.de) | tpmx wrote: | _Superiority: It 's not Eclipse._ | | Sold. | develatio wrote: | I bet the author had a lot of fun, but still, I must ask: "why, | oh why!!?? Just why!!?" | bronzeage wrote: | I want to see this working in python - good luck reading | whitespace in OCR... | neogodless wrote: | My curiosity is piqued, but I also found it hard to navigate this | web site. How do I see screenshots? When I clicked "Info" on the | Theming section I was taken back to the top of the home page | | (Firefox, Android.) | pininja wrote: | Skimming through the demo video on the homepage is rewarding. | zksmk wrote: | I'm also on Firefox (Focus) on Android. I found the GitHub link | at the bottom of the page: | https://github.com/MSPaintIDE/MSPaintIDE . It has screenshots | and a video of usage. | nmstoker wrote: | Is this meant to be some sort of amusing tool in the spirit of | "because we can" or is there a genuine practical purpose to it? | grawprog wrote: | >Can read, parse, and highlight code from purely image files | | >Finding and replacing of text from image files | | These two features actually seem pretty useful. There's been | more than one time i've found code as an image or something it | would have been nice to be able to copy. | | To be honest, it's come up enough that i've wanted to be able | to copy text directly from an image I've wondered if such a | tool existed. Never enough to actually go look for one, I'm | sure many exist, but enough that i've thought about it at | least. | artificial wrote: | There's an app called Memos on iOS that has that capability. | It's great for searching images for text, for example I use | it to take photos of my receipts, menus, screenshots, and | entirely it's on device and nearly instant (with 40k images). | I'm sure other apps exist for various platforms and in the | same niche. Looks like iOS 15 is adding text selection to | their photos tool so if there's a phone number visible it's | selectable and interactive. | mathhulk wrote: | No general purpose. I know the guy who made this and the hype | actually started on a Minecraft forum for developers where | there were a lot of Eclipse vs. IntelliJ arguments. It was a | hilarious addition to any "What is the best IDE?" threads! He | became quite interested in OCR and thought this would be a fun | project and thus MS Paint IDE was born! | bob1029 wrote: | mspaint is still one of those things I instantly reach for when | I've got a framebuffer on my clipboard and I quickly need to make | edits for pasting into email/issue/etc. | | Almost everyone else on my team uses some other fancy bullshit | that is probably better in every way, but I have found deep | comfort in the simplicity & speed of this ancient application. | | My preference for mspaint is probably out of habit from working | for a megacorp that disallowed installing of _any_ third party | applications on work computers. It was the most accessible option | on any computer in the org. | tyingq wrote: | Paint.net is free and gives you photoshop-ish functionality | with a more mspaint type of UI. You would probably like it. | https://getpaint.net | canadianfella wrote: | You call screenshots framebuffers? | NikolaNovak wrote: | It's the most accessible on any corporate computer, but also | fast to start and fast to use. | | I use Greenshot to capture images, but its image editor cannot | move rasterized bitmap around... so I still need to go to MS | Paint or equivalent. | | Interestingly, the Paint 3D that now ships with Windows, is a | strangely unfocused app. | hudo wrote: | Jesus what a colossal waste of time | davidscolgan wrote: | It feels like there is a kernel of something realllly cool here | but I can't quite tell what it is. | Gene_Parmesan wrote: | I think the whole idea is cool! It doesn't have to be useful to | be cool, in fact some of the coolest projects are eminently | unuseful. | | I think this is an awesome resume project. They've built an IDE | (which is impressive by itself), and then they've got this | whole parsing code from OCR thing on top that's not necessarily | useful but man is it cool. The fact that it shows a good sense | of humor is just icing on the cake. | | Like, search and replace on pictures of code contained in PNG | files... Just amazing. | londons_explore wrote: | While this is satire, it does raise the question:... | | Is it time to consider what benefits more advanced file formats | for source code could offer? | | Like in this case for example, the image format could allow | doodles, notes, and diagrams to be in the margins of the code... | rvnx wrote: | https://youtu.be/mBgIBF9Y6PE?t=485 | | "We have graphics in the source-code" | twoknee wrote: | Rest in peace Terry. | underwater wrote: | I've not seen his livestreams before, but this lived up to | expectations. Within two minutes he's gone from demoing some | innovative tech to calling people the n-word and spouting | conspiracies about the CIA. | jorl17 wrote: | I loved how TempleOS embedded 3D sprites right into the source | code! | aunetx wrote: | This man was really smart... | pininja wrote: | I can finally put MS Paint back on my resume under "technical" | skills! | | Amazing dedication, made my day! | alberto-m wrote: | Related: | | 93 % of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs | (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576425) | sfgweilr4f wrote: | This has a vaguely steam punk sensibility of a rethink of those | old punch cards using only technology / techniques from the | current era. Instead of the cards you've got image files. | | Maybe I missed it, but it would be good if it also created image | outputs from the program stdout. | amelius wrote: | Making images executable sounds like a bad idea. | ak39 wrote: | DIWHY | | (Incredible talent shown though) | arthurcolle wrote: | Is this more of a... | | "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they | could, they didn't stop to think if they should." | | or a | | "We choose to go to the Moon not because it is easy but because | it is hard." | | situation? | edoceo wrote: | Yes. | raghuveerdotnet wrote: | Lol. Looks more like the first option to me, but I also feel | that there is something very very special about these kind of | efforts and people who don't mind spending their time and | energy on things like this, precisely because of the fact that | the world is filled with the 'useful-or-not' types. In fact, I | feel we need a lot more of these 'do-I-find-it-personally- | interesting-or-not' types, so that the rest of us can keep | riding the 'whether-or-not' bandwagon and when that one off | 'interesting-or-not' turns out to be useful, in ways we didn't | foresee, we can ask them to join us. | matsemann wrote: | The video where he does search&replace on the images using OCR | shows how much effort went into this. Just wild, haha. | nxpnsv wrote: | Looks like its finally time for me to switch to windows... | dang wrote: | Some past threads: | | _MS Paint IDE_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24290834 - | Aug 2020 (9 comments) | | _MS Paint IDE_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17958021 - | Sept 2018 (34 comments) | | _Coding in MS Paint_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6589881 - Oct 2013 (4 | comments) | snarfy wrote: | Makes me want to take screenshots and paste them as comments in | the code, with circles and arrows and stuff. | dmz73 wrote: | I know MS Paint is seen as a joke but what is the Linux program | with equivalent functionality that actually works? Recently I | wanted to copy image from Firefox and paste it into a program to | crop and add some text. Ubuntu did not have a program installed | that would let me do that. I tried few different programs | available in the repository and none of them worked well enough | to perform this task. Even GIMP was not usable because the icons | and text would not scale up enough to be visible by human eye on | 4k 15" laptop screen. In the end I had to reboot into Windows and | use MS Paint which had this done in a flash. So, what is the | Linux Paint that actually works like MS Paint? | primaryobjects wrote: | A great web-based version is https://www.photopea.com | quickthrower2 wrote: | That's a web based version of photoshop! | olivierestsage wrote: | Your point is well made, but for anyone wondering about this, | I've found Krita[1] to be better than the GIMP for everyday use | like this. | | [1] https://krita.org/en/ | UbrtrbNchDneRle wrote: | ImageMagick. Even has a command line interface! | | On a serious note, I don't have any problems with GIMP, 2.10 is | supposed to have hiDPI support. Have you tried Krita and | MyPaint? | fuball63 wrote: | The one I always use is Kolourpaint. Installable via apt. | quickthrower2 wrote: | I use mspaint seriously for mock-ups. Because you can't do too | much you dont waste time on perfectionism you can just do | enough to communicate a design. It's a brain hack. Lack of | features (and vectors) is a feature! | b20000 wrote: | i thought this was going to generate code based on drawings you | made in ms paint. | pininja wrote: | If you can draw convincing enough text with a paint brush the | OCR should pick it up. | | But yeah next level would be drawing a square inside of a | rectangle to generate "class Square extends Rectangle" | smegma2 wrote: | > MS Paint IDE is a program that can read a normal image file | _saved with MS Paint_ | | I'm curious is it reading the image or using something about the | way MS paint stores its data? | RubbaBoy wrote: | It reads the actual image, it could be saved with any program | chews wrote: | This is the type of wild stuff I come to HN for... will I ever | use it? No. Is it amazing? Eff yes. | forgotmypw17 wrote: | If you already have a lot of Java stuff on your resume, why not | add it for a bit of humor? | | Of course, you'd have to at least get it working and play | around. | chirau wrote: | MS Paint's convenience and simplicity is underrated. I end up | subconsciously using it more often than I think I do. Screenshot | pastes, quick edits to blur out stuff before sharing etc. | jraph wrote: | > Screenshot pastes | | This is a failure of Windows's screenshot tool though, in my | opinion. I find this incredibly clunky. On Plasma/KDE, pressing | "print screen" takes a screenshot of the complete screen, and a | dialog opens and offers you to copy the screenshot into the | clipboard, to save it in a file or to open / edit it with the | tool of your choice. You can also take another screenshot of | the entire screen, or a window, or an area that you can draw | with the mouse, with a delay or not. | | On other environments, the screenshot is automatically saved in | a file without interaction. I'm not a huge fan but this is what | you end up doing most of the time on Windows anyway, but by | manually pasting in Paint and saving. | pseudosavant wrote: | Pre Windows 10 I'd agree. Try Win+Shift+S on Windows 10. | jraph wrote: | Good to know, what does it do? | | Too bad it's not bound to the Print Screen key but I guess | it would break many people's workflow. | gregorkas wrote: | It allows you to select a region of the screen, then | copies it to your clipboard, so you can easily paste it | to other programs. It's the best workflow there is | because it requires no other running tools, and the | binding is even simpler than ctrl+cmd+shift+4 on MacOS. | whywhywhywhy wrote: | The is an option for this in Ease of Use > Keyboard > | Print Screen shortcut | tofflos wrote: | Try Windows-Shift-S if you have the Feature Update for | Windows 10 20H2. | sorenjan wrote: | Win+PrtScr saves the screenshot as a PNG file in | Pictures\Screenshots. | | Windows also ships with a tool called Snipping tool[0], but | that now says that it will be replaced by Snip & Sketch [1]. | | If you want to quickly take a cropped screenshot you can use | Win+Shift+S. It only saves to the clipboard, but a lot of | places, like imgur and Github, supports pasting images so I | often find it more convenient than to have a bunch of old | files cluttering the system. | | [0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-snipping- | too... | | [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/snip- | sketch/9mz95kl8mr0l?a... | Gene_Parmesan wrote: | Snip and sketch allows you to save a copy of your snip. For | me, that's the tool that comes up when I do the Win+Shift+S | shortcut. Really handy tool and shortcut. | vecplane wrote: | Alternatively, Paint.NET is the go-to for all of my image | needs. | mathhulk wrote: | For reference: | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24290834 | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17958021 | | I'm glad to see this continue blowing up! Love you RubbaBoy <3 | RubbaBoy wrote: | Thanks for the support as always <3 Glad people still find | enjoyment in this cursed project | jcelerier wrote: | finally we can get a fix for | https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5508110/why-is-this-prog... | tester756 wrote: | haha, that's really good thread | chungy wrote: | It's funny, but the OP probably overplayed their hand. No | newbie is going to figure out how to install three compilers. | ;) | warpech wrote: | But does it work with Wine? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-06-13 23:00 UTC)