Portable Tux Paint Changelog

What's new in Portable Tux Paint 0.9.21c

Dec 29, 2010

New Starters:
Silver Frame
Jigsaw 3x3 & 5x5
New Magic Tools:
Blur (entire image mode) - Blurs entire image
Color Shift - Modifies the colors in the image.
Sharpen - Sharpens entire image
Edges - Traces the edges of the image, over a white background.
Silhouette - Creates an outline of the image, over a black background.
Color and White - Turns image pure color & white (no grey or color).
Snow Ball - Places random snow balls over the image.
Snow Flake - Places random snow flakes over the image.
Noise - Adds random noise to the image.
Mosaic - Gives the image a mosaic effect.
Rain - Adds rain drops to the image.
Toothpaste - Squirts "toothpaste" on to the image.
Confetti - Paints random confetti bits on the canvas.
TV - Adds television (CRT) interlacing lines over the image.
Rosette - Paints at 3 points on the screen, in a rosette shape.
Picasso - Paints at 3 points, in a "Picasso" art style.
Wavelets - Waves that go up and down.
Rails - Draws train tracks / rails over the image.
Fisheye - Warps part of the picture, as though seen through a fisheye.
Fold - Folds the corners of the image up, like a piece of paper.
Real Rainbow - Draw an arc-shaped, photorealistic rainbow.
String Edges - Draw string-like patters around the picture.
String Corner - Draw aligned string-like patterns.
String 'V' - Draw free-form string-like patterns.
Tornado (based on Flowers) - Draws a tornado effect onto the picture.
Icons for some new Magic Tools:
Color and White, Fisheye, Mosaic, Picasso, Silhouette, TV and Wavelet
Magic Tool Improvements:
Added "_switchin()" and "_switchout()" functions to Magic tool API, to tell Magic tools when they are selected or deselected, or when their mode changes.
Added "_modes()" function to Magic tool API, so Magic tool plugins can tell Tux Paint what modes it accepts, 'paint' or 'fullscreen'.
"_click()" function is now given a 'mode' value, corresponding to the mode the current tool is in.
"_get_description()" function is now given a 'mode' value, and is called once for each mode a particular tool claims to support. e.g., "which=0,mode=MODE_PAINT", then "which=1,mode=MODE_PAINT", then "which=1,mode=MODE_FULLSCREEN")
"Paint" and "Fullscreen" control buttons added to Magic tool selector UI. Can be disabled with "--nomagiccontrols".
"Negative", "Tint", "Glass Tile", "Darken" and "Lighten" tools can all now affect the entire image.
System-Related Improvements:
'savedir' and 'datadir' paths given in configuration files (e.g., ~/.tuxpaintrc) now have any environment variables and tildes (e.g., "~" for $HOME, or "~username" for 'username's home directory) expanded.
Build System Improvements:
Adhering to Debian & FreeDesktop.org standards regarding .desktop file.
Documentation Improvements:
HTML documentation files for the various Magic tools are now generated using a PHP script. Tool details are stored in a PHP array (which is easier-to-edit than individual HTML files).
Other Improvements:
Starter images no longer need to be created with alpha transparency. Any solid white will be removed automatically by Tux Paint.
White always appears as the first color in the "New" dialog, regardless of its position (or even existence) in the color palette.
Text tool uses FriBidi to determine when right-to-left characters have been typed (e.g., Hebrew) so that they are drawn in the right direction. (Mixing RtoL and LtoR works (e.g., Hebrew with numerals))
Updated to the latest version (2.27) of DejaVu Sans Regular for UI font.
Only loads locale-specific fonts (e.g., Tibetan's "bo.ttf", which is unusable with any language _except_ Tibetan) when Tux Paint is running in that locale. (Use "--alllocalefonts" command-line option or "alllocalefonts=yes" config. file option, to load all of those fonts, regardless of locale setting -- the old behavior.)
Font scoring system improved, so that fonts that support the current locale (based on special translation strings -- many of which have been submitted or improved) 'bubble up' to the top of the Fonts list when using the Text tool.
New localizations:
Shuswap (Secwepemctín) translation
Songhay translation
Localization Updates:
Afrikaans translation
Arabic translation
Asturian
Basque translation
Brazilian Portuguese translation
Catalan translation
Chinese (Simplified) translation
Chinese (Traditional) translation
Danish translation
Dutch translation
Estonian translation
French translation
Georgian translation
Gujarati translation
Greek translation
Hebrew translation
Hungarian
Irish Gaelic
Italian translation
Kurdish translation
Portuguese translation
Romanian translation
Russian translation
Slovak translation
Slovenian translation
Spanish translation
Swedish translation
Tamil translation
Ukranian translation
Zapotec (Miahuatlan dialect) name and locale code correction
Bug Fixes:
Was inadvertently calling "magic_switchin()" on Quit. Fixed.
[Ctrl]+[P] keyboard shortcut for printing was not complying with option to disable printing capability (e.g., "--noprint")! Fixed.
Preventing Tux Paint from dropping out of Fullscreen mode when pressing either left or right [Windows] keys. Note: Works on Windows XP, 2000 and Vista only (If Tux Paint is deliberately switched to the background, e.g. using [Alt]+[Tab], the [Windows] keys function as normal until Tux Paint is the active application again.)
Directional brushes used to always begin with middle image; now this only happens if you click and release, with dragging.
Corrected bug in postscript printing: images scaled up onto a large canvas printed small, compared to when they're printed at the size they were drawn.
Corrected 'oval' brush shape so that colors came out right.
Improved support for localized Stamp sound effects (e.g., "en_GB" for British English now works; only "en" would have worked before).
Fixed minor bug that caused Tux Paint to crash when loading many fonts (i.e., with the 'sysfonts' option).
'tuxpaint-import' script didn't support files with spaces. Fixed.
Fixed display bugs and icon positioning in pop-up dialogs when using right-to-left languages (like Hebrew or Arabic).