Rispettando la roadmap comunicata qualche tempo fa, da un paio di giorni è disponibile la Beta 1 della versione 3.0 di Paint.NET. Il Change Log è molto lungo:
- New effect: Clouds
- New menu command: Edit->Fill Selection (shortcut key: Backspace). This will fill any selected area with the primary color.
- New toolbar item / hotkey: The brush size may be manipulated with +/- buttons in the toolbar. Hotkeys for this are [ and ], and you may hold Ctrl to increment or decrement by 5.
- New translations: They are not complete yet, and in fact some have just been started. They are mostly in place right now in order to get the code correct: Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portugese, and Spanish. You will have the ability to choose one of these languages during installation, and from the Help->Language menu, but the text will still be either mostly or completely English. Complete translations will be finished by February.
- Added left-handed shortcut keys for Cut (Shift+Del), Copy (Ctrl+Ins), Paste (Shift+Ins)
- Upper-left coordinate of selection is now displayed in the status bar
- When moving text with the Text tool, the anchor point coordinate is now displayed in the status bar
- Fixed: In high-DPI mode (120dpi), the color swatch would translate the mouse location to the wrong color palette entry
- Fixed: Alpha-channel handling for bicubic and super-sampling image resampling methods
- Fixed: Very slow download speeds for updates in Vista
- Fixed: In Vista, the updater would relaunch Paint.NET with the same administrator privileges that the installer executed in. Now it will relaunch Paint.NET with the pre-elevation user and privilege level. Note that this fix will not be apparent until the next update to Paint.NET.
- Fixed some layout and rendering issues with the floating tool windows in Vista
- Fixed a rendering issue with the font selection dropdown list
- Fixed a performance issue with the font selection dropdown list in Vista
- Right-clicking on a color in the palette will now set the secondary color
- Palette files now allow comments to be placed after color values
- Fixed: If Edit->Paste in to New Image was pasting a bitmap with transparency (from Paint.NET), it would have a white background instead of a transparent background.
- Fixed: Right-clicking on a .PDN file in Explorer and then selecting "Print" would not work if Paint.NET was already open
- Fixed over 10 user-reported crash bugs
- Fixed several out-of-memory crashes
- Fixes for many other miscellaneous, mostly minor, bugs
Maggiori dettagli e il download sono disponibili sul solito sito.
“WPF/E” is the Microsoft solution for delivering rich, cross-platform, interactive experiences including animation, graphics, audio, and video for the Web and beyond. Utilizing a subset of XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language)-based Windows Presentation Foundation technology, “WPF/E” will enable the creation of content and applications that run within multiple browsers and operating systems (Windows and Macintosh) using Web standards for programmability. Consistent with Web architecture, the XAML markup is programmable using JavaScript and works well with ASP.NET AJAX. Broadly available for customers in the first half of 2007, “WPF/E” experiences will require a lightweight browser plug-in made freely available by Microsoft.
L'ho scoperto per caso, ma l'idea sembra interessante. In questo momento l'SDK di "WPF/E" è disponibile come CTP su questo sito, in cui sono contenuti anche numerosi esempi e documentazione tecnica.