Post AwaaLYlDWG9w2buBpg by saper@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AwaPMRAa827bIAz9NI by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-28T08:17:56Z
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Huh. Why does Microsoft Paintbrush use three RGB sliders rather than the standard color selector dialog? (It definitely existed as of Windows 3.1!)
(DIR) Post #AwaPdZgBk6QSbjwO5A by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-28T08:21:04Z
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See? over in the Control Panel, you can see there's already this select-a-color dialog.
(DIR) Post #AwaPjysIyn0aUHfAaO by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-28T08:22:12Z
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two theories: 1. this dialog is the one that WILL BE standard, but it's not standard yet. possible! I don't know when the color picker was added to the API. maybe it wasn't yet, or it wasn't when paintbrush was finalized. 2. it's because of the pre-windows/pre-microsoft history of paintbrush
(DIR) Post #AwaPo8BKJpveVhXUPo by eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-07-28T08:22:55Z
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@foone i love the dither on this
(DIR) Post #AwaQ0d2xOCj1iAaFSy by efi@chitter.xyz
2025-07-28T08:25:10Z
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@foone click the About menu and see who made itmaybe they still use the same email!
(DIR) Post #AwaQ3Q9fmDtIb63YS8 by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-28T08:25:21Z
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ZSoft PC Paintbrush Plus 1.12 for Windows (which predates windows 3.1) has the identical dialog.
(DIR) Post #AwaQ6pjR8gs4n7PazY by pointingdevice@social.restless.systems
2025-07-28T08:25:52Z
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@foone Windows 3.x Paintbrush evolved from PC Paintbrush (Plus) for Windows, which started as a native Windows 1.x/2.x app.
(DIR) Post #AwaQ9PdyafZYkW5Uh6 by kawa@mas.to
2025-07-28T08:26:10Z
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@foone If I had to guess, they forgot about it when updating from Windows 3.0, only switching out the file dialogs.Because Windows 3.0 didn't have Common Dialogs at all
(DIR) Post #AwaSvdF1XQIGjIXLHM by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-28T08:57:54Z
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@kawa I like how that window is very clearly a "windowized" version of the ALREADY RUNNING IN WINDOWS PC Paintbrush 1.5 for Windows dialog
(DIR) Post #AwaSzE2fAduPjXT7TM by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-28T08:58:08Z
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@kawa but yeah. that makes sense
(DIR) Post #AwaT2PBgBlAvAYCbNQ by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-28T08:58:46Z
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FUCK I just realized I have a reason to fix this.I was hoping to finish today without having to reverse engineer MSPaint
(DIR) Post #AwaaLYlDWG9w2buBpg by saper@mastodon.social
2025-07-28T10:20:57Z
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@foone There is some standard stuff around herehttps://github.com/JackTrapper/Windows-3.1-SDK/blob/ab31733fbc99bdb32f25239d2e249c60f0f40514/SAMPLES/COMMDLG/COLOR.DLGhttps://github.com/JackTrapper/Windows-3.1-SDK/blob/ab31733fbc99bdb32f25239d2e249c60f0f40514/SAMPLES/COMMDLG/COLOR.DLG > Beginning with Windows 3.1, a solution to this problem became available. This is an enhancement called the "common dialog box library." This library consists of several functions that invoke standard dialog boxes for opening and saving files, searching and replacing, choosing colors, choosing fonts (...)Source: https://flylib.com/books/en/4.267.1.59/1/
(DIR) Post #AwatNNeLhLWNI2H5Fo by 0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
2025-07-28T13:54:13Z
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@foone my guess is it would have been one of the first apps they got working and they didn’t systematically standardize it before shipping
(DIR) Post #AwbYWCYwNykfd94OBc by wndxlori@ruby.social
2025-07-28T21:35:08Z
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@foone Windows 1.0/2.0 remains