I've been interested in music all my life. At my peak I was composing about one tune per week; but not so many in recent years.

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I ain't pushing no moon buttons.

I play guitar, but my efforts at the keyboard (computer and piano) are dismal.

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10 PRINT "Bad Monkey ";
20 GOTO 10

If you're interested, we're doing one hour compos every saturday 10pm cet on irc.esper.net/modulez, samplepack is given, you have to compose in it/xm. I tried to get burnzez into it aswell

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Long pork is people!

wzl's burrow

Learn piano is my dream! But I never had the chance.

The closest I got was using Fruity Loops. But it is hard to learn music theory using a software.


Download link for executable at the current version of the project :

[4SHARED DOWNLOAD]

EDIT:
- To select part of the image, you click the right mouse button, hold it and move.
- Clicking in the button properties, you can change the size of the selecting tool.

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"Life finds a way." - Ian Malcolm
My WebBlog: PixelDeveloper
English is not my native language, so excuse me for any writing mistakes.

Here I am. Now, I implemented the "Zoom Tool" and the "Pencil Tool". And realised that some palette's operations were incorrect(damned Windows API ), but I fixed it too.

I'm not making implementations for PNG, for now. I will finish everything about BMP, then I will convert the code to work properly with PNG.

Take a look: [DOWNLOAD LINK]

Please, tell me if it is working properly on your computer.

HOW TO USE:
- Open an 256 colors bitmap image;
- To select part of the image, you click the right mouse button, hold it and move. The part of the image will be show in the left side frame.
- You can use the tools in the image you took part.
- To apply the changes, click with the left mouse button in the original image(in the right frame), then the image of the left frame will be copied.
- Clicking in the button properties, you can change the size of the selecting tool.

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"Life finds a way." - Ian Malcolm
My WebBlog: PixelDeveloper
English is not my native language, so excuse me for any writing mistakes.

News: Now it is possible to use the zoom, pencil and the line tool.

I will describe a problem I was dealing with, and how I solved it. When the user select part of the image it wants to edit, the program execute two operations: create the profile image and create a paint control(a windows handle);



Previously, the program was setting the size of the Paint control to the same size of the Profile image, what give us this result:

This process create 3 images: the Original image, in the right frame(in the first picture); the Profile image; and the Paint control with a visible area and a non-visible area(in the second picture).

Well, it works fine... if you have a advanced computer. Yes. because if you are dealing with a large image, like 3000x3000, the program may crash on "lowtech"(like mine ). And, if you select a large image, then you will have a 3000x3000 image, and a largexlarge Profile image and Paint control(because the paint control is setted to the same size).

How I solved:
Instead of set the paint control to the same size, the program draws in the paint control only part of the image we will need, using BitBlt function(WinAPI function). Now the computer don't spend memory with that non-visible area, just the visible one.
Done!

It is a simple process to use with games(In my case, it was a hardcore programming experience, because... a lot of variables... the zoom tool, the mouse position, where the pixels would be put when clicked).

I will make it so good, I will see people here using this program! Challenge Accepted!

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"Life finds a way." - Ian Malcolm
My WebBlog: PixelDeveloper
English is not my native language, so excuse me for any writing mistakes.

Sorry for this long time in the dark. My life is currently very troubled.

I'm stuck. I can not find any function which could replace CopyRect() for PNG. I have found AlphaBlend() but it is not working, OR I'm not using it correctly.
Apart from that, all functions for BMP are working fine.

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"Life finds a way." - Ian Malcolm
My WebBlog: PixelDeveloper
English is not my native language, so excuse me for any writing mistakes.

I have upload the program in the SkyDrive server.
The current avaliable tools are: Pencil, Line and Rectangle for Bitmaps(8bit).
Some features, which are not found in the Character Maker 1999, are being implemented(transparent images are avaliable, magic selection tool, scales).

The tools are not avaliable for PNG files or for non 8bit Bitmaps. But I have solved the problem with PNG files, instead of use the function CopyRect with the PNG handle, I'm converting the PNG to Bitmap, and then using the function.

[Download - Win32bit]

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"Life finds a way." - Ian Malcolm
My WebBlog: PixelDeveloper
English is not my native language, so excuse me for any writing mistakes.

HELLOWW GUYS!!! Long time no see, I was without internet access for a entire month... it was like a psychological detoxification, but here I'm again. Very happy to have my internet back.

So... I have spent this time programming, some progress with the game engine, and with the paint editor were made.

In the current version of the paint editor I'm implementing the selection tool(which will work like the gimp selection tool, with many possibilities of selection), the Shape tool(to make rectangles and circles). I had a new idea to work with PNG files: the program convert the PNG to a BMP when it is loaded, and convert it again to PNG to save the file... easier than work with PNG directly.

Oh yeah, and the program has a frame which shows the historic(Ctrl+Z/Ctrl+Y)... very useful.

This is it... I will put a download link later =)

Happy to be back

EDIT: The build is bigger than it was supposed to be. It is about 8MB... Character Maker 1999 is only about 400KB.

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"Life finds a way." - Ian Malcolm
My WebBlog: PixelDeveloper
English is not my native language, so excuse me for any writing mistakes.

Funny how not having internet for a long time can focus the mind. No youtube = high productivity!

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Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve

Detoxification was exactly the right word.
No youtube, no twitter, no forums, no irc, no anything.
It's not like i got a whole lot more done, but it's funny how priorities changed

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Long pork is people!

wzl's burrow

So true, and kindof funny cuz I'm actually working on Tankz right now while listening to KoRn on YouTube lol

Yeah I groove while i program. That's just how I do it.

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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
"Hope is the first step on the road to dissapointment." -Jonah Orion
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