A new version of “Tux Paint” has been released!
Changes include:
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Disable the “Save over the older version…?” prompt you get when
saving a picture.You can either choose to always save over ("–saveover"),
or always create a new file when saving ("–saveovernew") -
You can grab the keyboard and mouse using the new “–grab” option.
This can keep kids from moving the mouse out of the window
(although I suggest simply using “–fullscreen”), or from switching
tasks by with [Alt]-[Tab] or getting out with Windows’ [Ctrl]-[Escape]. -
Cleaned up some memory leaks with the new “–uppercase” option.
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Mouse buttons 2 and 3 are supported again.
(“Buttons” 4, 5… (wheel) are still disabled to stop ‘hyper-clicking.’)Partly because kids may get confused when only one button works,
and partly to get around an apparent “left-handed” mouse bug in libSDL
(under Windows in fullscreen mode). -
My favorite new feature - Context-sensitive mouse pointer shapes!
The cursor shapes are also all very large and easy to see! :^)
You can get Tux Paint here:
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/
For those not keeping up, changes that came out in yesterday’s release include:
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Fixed a bug where the tool tip would revert to English when it shouldn’t.
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A few translation updates and fixes.
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The aforementioned “–upppercase” option, which renders all text
(button labels, prompts, text tips, etc.) in uppercase.
This is for kids who can read, but aren’t comfortable with lowercase yet. -
Created an “FAQ” document, in case anyone needs it. :^)
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Aforementioned disabling of certain mouse buttons.
(The main purpose is to keep the ‘wheel’ on wheely-mice from being
interpreted as very fast multi-clicking; some kids aren’t comfortable
with using mice, and might accidentally roll the wheel!)
And before that, September 12th included:
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Font chooser.
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Text tool (still very alpha stage!)
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New locale supported: Swedish! (Svenska)
Enjoy!
-bill!