On 18 Mar 2003, at 23:14, Simon Budig wrote: > Branko Collin (collin@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > [CinePaint] > > The Windows version also comes with a nice mouse pointer the size of > > the current brush. Doesn't quite seem to work yet, but very handy. > > Since this pops up again and again, I thought I'd share my thoughts on > how this might be implemented. > > We could generate an outline of the current brush in the same way as > we create an outline for the selection. The result would be a > black/white image that roughly shows the size/shape of an brush. (For > brush pipes we could simply use the first brush in the pipe or combine > the black/white for the various brushes. Since the latter would be a > pretty black image for huge brush pipes a better idea would probably > be a bounding box or something like that.) > > Changing the X11 Mousepointer itself is most probably not an option, > since some platforms have a size limit on that pointer (32x32 or so - > pretty small). Also moving an additional shaped window synchronously > with the mouse pointer sounds like a bad idea to me, since complex > shaped windows have a big performance impact on the X Server. > > So we could simply XOR the image on the image view window. I take it the infamous XOR patent is not longer valid? (<http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph- Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/search- adv.htm&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=ptxt&S1=4,197,590.WKU.&OS=pn/4,197,590&RS=P N/4,197,590>, applied for in 1980.) > I won't implement this - the Path tool is more urgent (Hi Jimmac! :-) Yea path tool! Go Nomis, go Nomis, go Nomis! :-) -- branko collin collin@xxxxxxxxx
