[HN Gopher] MS Paint IDE
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MS Paint IDE
Author : scoopertrooper
Score : 160 points
Date : 2021-06-12 05:14 UTC (1 days ago)
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| tpmx wrote:
| _Superiority: It 's not Eclipse._
|
| Sold.
| develatio wrote:
| I bet the author had a lot of fun, but still, I must ask: "why,
| oh why!!?? Just why!!?"
| bronzeage wrote:
| I want to see this working in python - good luck reading
| whitespace in OCR...
| neogodless wrote:
| My curiosity is piqued, but I also found it hard to navigate this
| web site. How do I see screenshots? When I clicked "Info" on the
| Theming section I was taken back to the top of the home page
|
| (Firefox, Android.)
| pininja wrote:
| Skimming through the demo video on the homepage is rewarding.
| zksmk wrote:
| I'm also on Firefox (Focus) on Android. I found the GitHub link
| at the bottom of the page:
| https://github.com/MSPaintIDE/MSPaintIDE . It has screenshots
| and a video of usage.
| nmstoker wrote:
| Is this meant to be some sort of amusing tool in the spirit of
| "because we can" or is there a genuine practical purpose to it?
| grawprog wrote:
| >Can read, parse, and highlight code from purely image files
|
| >Finding and replacing of text from image files
|
| These two features actually seem pretty useful. There's been
| more than one time i've found code as an image or something it
| would have been nice to be able to copy.
|
| To be honest, it's come up enough that i've wanted to be able
| to copy text directly from an image I've wondered if such a
| tool existed. Never enough to actually go look for one, I'm
| sure many exist, but enough that i've thought about it at
| least.
| artificial wrote:
| There's an app called Memos on iOS that has that capability.
| It's great for searching images for text, for example I use
| it to take photos of my receipts, menus, screenshots, and
| entirely it's on device and nearly instant (with 40k images).
| I'm sure other apps exist for various platforms and in the
| same niche. Looks like iOS 15 is adding text selection to
| their photos tool so if there's a phone number visible it's
| selectable and interactive.
| mathhulk wrote:
| No general purpose. I know the guy who made this and the hype
| actually started on a Minecraft forum for developers where
| there were a lot of Eclipse vs. IntelliJ arguments. It was a
| hilarious addition to any "What is the best IDE?" threads! He
| became quite interested in OCR and thought this would be a fun
| project and thus MS Paint IDE was born!
| bob1029 wrote:
| mspaint is still one of those things I instantly reach for when
| I've got a framebuffer on my clipboard and I quickly need to make
| edits for pasting into email/issue/etc.
|
| Almost everyone else on my team uses some other fancy bullshit
| that is probably better in every way, but I have found deep
| comfort in the simplicity & speed of this ancient application.
|
| My preference for mspaint is probably out of habit from working
| for a megacorp that disallowed installing of _any_ third party
| applications on work computers. It was the most accessible option
| on any computer in the org.
| tyingq wrote:
| Paint.net is free and gives you photoshop-ish functionality
| with a more mspaint type of UI. You would probably like it.
| https://getpaint.net
| canadianfella wrote:
| You call screenshots framebuffers?
| NikolaNovak wrote:
| It's the most accessible on any corporate computer, but also
| fast to start and fast to use.
|
| I use Greenshot to capture images, but its image editor cannot
| move rasterized bitmap around... so I still need to go to MS
| Paint or equivalent.
|
| Interestingly, the Paint 3D that now ships with Windows, is a
| strangely unfocused app.
| hudo wrote:
| Jesus what a colossal waste of time
| davidscolgan wrote:
| It feels like there is a kernel of something realllly cool here
| but I can't quite tell what it is.
| Gene_Parmesan wrote:
| I think the whole idea is cool! It doesn't have to be useful to
| be cool, in fact some of the coolest projects are eminently
| unuseful.
|
| I think this is an awesome resume project. They've built an IDE
| (which is impressive by itself), and then they've got this
| whole parsing code from OCR thing on top that's not necessarily
| useful but man is it cool. The fact that it shows a good sense
| of humor is just icing on the cake.
|
| Like, search and replace on pictures of code contained in PNG
| files... Just amazing.
| londons_explore wrote:
| While this is satire, it does raise the question:...
|
| Is it time to consider what benefits more advanced file formats
| for source code could offer?
|
| Like in this case for example, the image format could allow
| doodles, notes, and diagrams to be in the margins of the code...
| rvnx wrote:
| https://youtu.be/mBgIBF9Y6PE?t=485
|
| "We have graphics in the source-code"
| twoknee wrote:
| Rest in peace Terry.
| underwater wrote:
| I've not seen his livestreams before, but this lived up to
| expectations. Within two minutes he's gone from demoing some
| innovative tech to calling people the n-word and spouting
| conspiracies about the CIA.
| jorl17 wrote:
| I loved how TempleOS embedded 3D sprites right into the source
| code!
| aunetx wrote:
| This man was really smart...
| pininja wrote:
| I can finally put MS Paint back on my resume under "technical"
| skills!
|
| Amazing dedication, made my day!
| alberto-m wrote:
| Related:
|
| 93 % of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
| (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576425)
| sfgweilr4f wrote:
| This has a vaguely steam punk sensibility of a rethink of those
| old punch cards using only technology / techniques from the
| current era. Instead of the cards you've got image files.
|
| Maybe I missed it, but it would be good if it also created image
| outputs from the program stdout.
| amelius wrote:
| Making images executable sounds like a bad idea.
| ak39 wrote:
| DIWHY
|
| (Incredible talent shown though)
| arthurcolle wrote:
| Is this more of a...
|
| "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they
| could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
|
| or a
|
| "We choose to go to the Moon not because it is easy but because
| it is hard."
|
| situation?
| edoceo wrote:
| Yes.
| raghuveerdotnet wrote:
| Lol. Looks more like the first option to me, but I also feel
| that there is something very very special about these kind of
| efforts and people who don't mind spending their time and
| energy on things like this, precisely because of the fact that
| the world is filled with the 'useful-or-not' types. In fact, I
| feel we need a lot more of these 'do-I-find-it-personally-
| interesting-or-not' types, so that the rest of us can keep
| riding the 'whether-or-not' bandwagon and when that one off
| 'interesting-or-not' turns out to be useful, in ways we didn't
| foresee, we can ask them to join us.
| matsemann wrote:
| The video where he does search&replace on the images using OCR
| shows how much effort went into this. Just wild, haha.
| nxpnsv wrote:
| Looks like its finally time for me to switch to windows...
| dang wrote:
| Some past threads:
|
| _MS Paint IDE_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24290834 -
| Aug 2020 (9 comments)
|
| _MS Paint IDE_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17958021 -
| Sept 2018 (34 comments)
|
| _Coding in MS Paint_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6589881 - Oct 2013 (4
| comments)
| snarfy wrote:
| Makes me want to take screenshots and paste them as comments in
| the code, with circles and arrows and stuff.
| dmz73 wrote:
| I know MS Paint is seen as a joke but what is the Linux program
| with equivalent functionality that actually works? Recently I
| wanted to copy image from Firefox and paste it into a program to
| crop and add some text. Ubuntu did not have a program installed
| that would let me do that. I tried few different programs
| available in the repository and none of them worked well enough
| to perform this task. Even GIMP was not usable because the icons
| and text would not scale up enough to be visible by human eye on
| 4k 15" laptop screen. In the end I had to reboot into Windows and
| use MS Paint which had this done in a flash. So, what is the
| Linux Paint that actually works like MS Paint?
| primaryobjects wrote:
| A great web-based version is https://www.photopea.com
| quickthrower2 wrote:
| That's a web based version of photoshop!
| olivierestsage wrote:
| Your point is well made, but for anyone wondering about this,
| I've found Krita[1] to be better than the GIMP for everyday use
| like this.
|
| [1] https://krita.org/en/
| UbrtrbNchDneRle wrote:
| ImageMagick. Even has a command line interface!
|
| On a serious note, I don't have any problems with GIMP, 2.10 is
| supposed to have hiDPI support. Have you tried Krita and
| MyPaint?
| fuball63 wrote:
| The one I always use is Kolourpaint. Installable via apt.
| quickthrower2 wrote:
| I use mspaint seriously for mock-ups. Because you can't do too
| much you dont waste time on perfectionism you can just do
| enough to communicate a design. It's a brain hack. Lack of
| features (and vectors) is a feature!
| b20000 wrote:
| i thought this was going to generate code based on drawings you
| made in ms paint.
| pininja wrote:
| If you can draw convincing enough text with a paint brush the
| OCR should pick it up.
|
| But yeah next level would be drawing a square inside of a
| rectangle to generate "class Square extends Rectangle"
| smegma2 wrote:
| > MS Paint IDE is a program that can read a normal image file
| _saved with MS Paint_
|
| I'm curious is it reading the image or using something about the
| way MS paint stores its data?
| RubbaBoy wrote:
| It reads the actual image, it could be saved with any program
| chews wrote:
| This is the type of wild stuff I come to HN for... will I ever
| use it? No. Is it amazing? Eff yes.
| forgotmypw17 wrote:
| If you already have a lot of Java stuff on your resume, why not
| add it for a bit of humor?
|
| Of course, you'd have to at least get it working and play
| around.
| chirau wrote:
| MS Paint's convenience and simplicity is underrated. I end up
| subconsciously using it more often than I think I do. Screenshot
| pastes, quick edits to blur out stuff before sharing etc.
| jraph wrote:
| > Screenshot pastes
|
| This is a failure of Windows's screenshot tool though, in my
| opinion. I find this incredibly clunky. On Plasma/KDE, pressing
| "print screen" takes a screenshot of the complete screen, and a
| dialog opens and offers you to copy the screenshot into the
| clipboard, to save it in a file or to open / edit it with the
| tool of your choice. You can also take another screenshot of
| the entire screen, or a window, or an area that you can draw
| with the mouse, with a delay or not.
|
| On other environments, the screenshot is automatically saved in
| a file without interaction. I'm not a huge fan but this is what
| you end up doing most of the time on Windows anyway, but by
| manually pasting in Paint and saving.
| pseudosavant wrote:
| Pre Windows 10 I'd agree. Try Win+Shift+S on Windows 10.
| jraph wrote:
| Good to know, what does it do?
|
| Too bad it's not bound to the Print Screen key but I guess
| it would break many people's workflow.
| gregorkas wrote:
| It allows you to select a region of the screen, then
| copies it to your clipboard, so you can easily paste it
| to other programs. It's the best workflow there is
| because it requires no other running tools, and the
| binding is even simpler than ctrl+cmd+shift+4 on MacOS.
| whywhywhywhy wrote:
| The is an option for this in Ease of Use > Keyboard >
| Print Screen shortcut
| tofflos wrote:
| Try Windows-Shift-S if you have the Feature Update for
| Windows 10 20H2.
| sorenjan wrote:
| Win+PrtScr saves the screenshot as a PNG file in
| Pictures\Screenshots.
|
| Windows also ships with a tool called Snipping tool[0], but
| that now says that it will be replaced by Snip & Sketch [1].
|
| If you want to quickly take a cropped screenshot you can use
| Win+Shift+S. It only saves to the clipboard, but a lot of
| places, like imgur and Github, supports pasting images so I
| often find it more convenient than to have a bunch of old
| files cluttering the system.
|
| [0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-snipping-
| too...
|
| [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/snip-
| sketch/9mz95kl8mr0l?a...
| Gene_Parmesan wrote:
| Snip and sketch allows you to save a copy of your snip. For
| me, that's the tool that comes up when I do the Win+Shift+S
| shortcut. Really handy tool and shortcut.
| vecplane wrote:
| Alternatively, Paint.NET is the go-to for all of my image
| needs.
| mathhulk wrote:
| For reference:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24290834
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17958021
|
| I'm glad to see this continue blowing up! Love you RubbaBoy <3
| RubbaBoy wrote:
| Thanks for the support as always <3 Glad people still find
| enjoyment in this cursed project
| jcelerier wrote:
| finally we can get a fix for
| https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5508110/why-is-this-prog...
| tester756 wrote:
| haha, that's really good thread
| chungy wrote:
| It's funny, but the OP probably overplayed their hand. No
| newbie is going to figure out how to install three compilers.
| ;)
| warpech wrote:
| But does it work with Wine?
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