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Re: Unlimited canvas painting program

Date 2013-10-24 16:46 -0500
From Tim Chase <tim@thechases.com>
Subject Re: Unlimited canvas painting program
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On 2013-10-24 12:16, markotaht@gmail.com wrote:
> How to create a program similar to paint, but the difference would
> be that the cursor would be always in the middle and the canvas
> moves or the camera is always fixed on the cursor as it moves
> around the canvas. And the canvas should be infinite. What would be
> reasonable to use? 

To hold an (effectively) infinite *bitmap* canvas, you'd (effectively)
need an (effectively) infinite amount of memory.  However, it could be
done with an (effectively) infinite *vector* canvas.  That way you
could limit the on-screen rendering to just the clipped subset of the
vector collection.

You'd still want to make it easy to toggle between "draw" and "stop
drawing", but you could make a mouse-click.

To implement, just pick a GUI library tkinter, wx, or whatver.

-tkc

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Unlimited canvas painting program markotaht@gmail.com - 2013-10-24 12:16 -0700
  Re: Unlimited canvas painting program Thomas Murphy <thomasmurphymusic@gmail.com> - 2013-10-24 15:22 -0400
    Re: Unlimited canvas painting program markotaht@gmail.com - 2013-10-24 12:32 -0700
      Re: Unlimited canvas painting program MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-10-24 21:02 +0100
        Re: Unlimited canvas painting program albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-11-07 11:30 +0000
          Re: Unlimited canvas painting program Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-08 00:04 +1100
  Re: Unlimited canvas painting program Tim Chase <tim@thechases.com> - 2013-10-24 16:46 -0500
    Re: Unlimited canvas painting program Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-10-24 21:51 +0000
      Re: Unlimited canvas painting program Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-10-24 17:04 -0500

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