Drawing

[Flip]

I am trying to make a Paint-like progam where the user can draw, and i would be able to do this except i need to restrict to mouse to large pixels (like being zoomed in a whole lot). In other words, do you know how to draw on a large grid?

[110359]

Are you saying that you want to have a large shape drawn or have the mouse look like a large shape???

110359

[Flip]

What i am saying is instead of a very small grid where you fill in pixels, i have a very large grid where you fill in big squares. I think it would be easiest with ScaleWidth and Scale Height, but the squares dont seem to come out right.

[Liquid Pennies]

so you basically want to do paint's zoom. well, i would just stretchblt the picture to say, 800% and then where ever you paint an indidual pixel, it calculates which grid block it's in (since its 800%, every 8 zoomed in pixels would form 1 when zoomed to 100%) and fill in the rest of the 63 pixels in that same block.

hmm...i cant really think of an easy alternative solution that a lot of math.

hey, the more work you put into it, the more likely your going to actually use it later :-D

[110359]

Sounds like a good idea.

[ChuckB]

Hi,
To add to Liquid Pennies' idea could you increase the drawwidth property x8 to fill in all of those extra pixels for you?

Regards,
ChuckB

[Liquid Pennies]

that would work real well

[Flip]

Yeah, that would work with some tweaking but im also haveing another problem. If i keep a pixle moving around under the mouse (and its not drawing), does anyone have a really good way i can snap it to the grid?

[Liquid Pennies]

well, assumming you have a transparency:

calculate how many pixels your furthest pixel is to the edge of your canvas. if its <=10 then automatically set it to the edge.

that will take quite a few if-then statements, but hey, it will be worth it.

sounds like your making a disabled photoshop. hope it goes far.