Suggestions for Logoedit

I haven't updated the Empeg Logo Editor in almost two years.

There seems to be a bug in the upload.c code, and when I fix that (assuming I even can fix it), I'll release a new build of the logo editor program to go with it. Anyone have any suggestions on additional MINOR improvements I could make to logo editor? Things that would only take a minute to do?

Examples of things I will do, and the types of suggestions I'm looking for:

- Fix bug in upload.c that causes "failed to get echoback on lock" error.
- Improve the text on the main menu so that erasing a logo and switching between the Rio/Empeg personality is more obvious.

Examples of things that are too big and I won't be doing so don't suggest them:

- Create a rubber-band tool for the drawing window.
- Multi-level undo.
- Animation editor.

How about the ability to pull the logo (and animation) back off the player, if hijack is installed? Since it's just a simple ftp transfer...

Nice idea, but I'd have to write a whole new module for that since I'm not doing any FTP at all yet. Too big for what I want to do.

Damn, but you're using VB right? There are tons of FTP client libraries already written.

Hmm. Maybe if it's easy, I'll try it.

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But does it run on Linux?

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No.

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I don't know how much complicated is this, so feel free to ignore it:

- the ability to upload the AnnaVU, TuxTooMuch and similar images (I don't remember if these want the compressed format or not); obviously not the ImagePan one

Hmm. Maybe. I'll look at it.

yeah! that's a great idea... it'd be cool to have the image upload type stuff all in one place.

That would be a great feature and I hope that would include the image pan.

Well, see, the trick is that the software was hard-coded to edit a pair of 128x32 images. To add an ImagePan editor, I'd have to rework a bunch of the low-level bits of the way the window and screen are drawn. Also, I would have to incorporate the RLE compression algorithm into my code to compress the image pan image. All of that is more work than I wanted to go to right now.

BUT... The TuxMuch and AnnaVu images are already the right size. And they don't have to be RLE-compressed. And if I'm adding FTP code to grab images from the player, then it's not a big deal to have it throw those images back TO the player.

So there's more of a chance that you'd get AnnaVu/TuxMuch in there than Image Pan.

I'd like to be able to select what 2 colors I can have associated with each of the mouse buttons at any given time. Right now, right click is always black.

I'll put it on my Christmas wish list then

I'd like to be able to select what 2 colors I can have associated with each of the mouse buttons at any given time. Right now, right click is always black.

Hmm. I've got other editors which do that, so I understand your need for the feature. However that's more than I wanted to bite off at this time (it would take some user interface changes).

I kinda liked the way it worked so that right button was always erase, but to each his own.

AOL on the Anna VU and TuxTooMuch updates....much needed.

I kinda liked the way it worked so that right button was always erase, but to each his own.

this is true...hmm. well, it's no biggie but if ya ever get around to it that would be a neat addition.

I reckon it does literally everything I need it to. Nice and straightforward/easy. It is still my favourite method for uploading new hijack versions.

I guess my only wishlist item is also probably a difficult one - intelligent antialiasing so I don't need to manually make my curves smooth.

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