Paint Editor
This editor isn’t finished yet but is being worked on.
The first alpha is just the beginning and right now you can only draw in green.
Next versions:
Different Colours/Colors
Fill
Shapes
Menu
Saving
Just by looking at the screenshot, I’m going to take a guess:
You’re grabbing the mouse position every update and storing it in a list.
You then loop through the list and draw a dot at the positions.
Am I correct? If I am, you should draw a line connecting each point so that you don’t have a bunch of dots.
Here is a demo:
http://www.java-gaming.org/user-generated-content/members/251719/painteditoralpha1-0.jar
As I said before you can only draw in green more updates will be coming.
Controls:
Mouse Click and Drag to draw (You can use both left click and right click for better drawing)
You didn’t say if I was correct or not, so I took the liberty of reverse-engineering your jar file to see the sauce.
private Point[] points = new Point[10000];
This isn’t a good way of making a paint program. What happens when I fill up all the points? The array doesn’t even correlate to any pixel on the screen. When/if you expand this program, you’ll see what I mean.
Keep working at it. Look at how Paint.JAVA is done.
Oh wow, no a fixed array is not a good idea. By default, you should have a paintbrush as the default tool, not a point tool. Take the advice of vBrain and create lines, and then you can expand it to support brush sizes by drawing more lines next to the first.
If I were doing it, I would create an array of pixels equivalent to the size of the canvas.
Thank You for the advice.