Lol. Looks more like the first option to me, but I also feel that there is something very very special about these kind of efforts and people who don’t mind spending their time and energy on things like this, precisely because of the fact that the world is filled with the ‘useful-or-not’ types. In fact, I feel we need a lot more of these ‘do-I-find-it-personally-interesting-or-not’ types, so that the rest of us can keep riding the ‘whether-or-not’ bandwagon and when that one off ‘interesting-or-not’ turns out to be useful, in ways we didn’t foresee, we can ask them to join us.
I hear crypto is a good place for this attitude, these days. I actually got an email from a recruiter describing the product as React for smart contracts.
Demonstration of skills demonstrated with a fun example. I'm assuming there is image->Text translation, process automation + functional demo, and UI design.
Digging into the github page it appears a custom OCR solution was created. I wonder if anyone has forked/used this in cool places.
I've not seen his livestreams before, but this lived up to expectations. Within two minutes he's gone from demoing some innovative tech to calling people the n-word and spouting conspiracies about the CIA.
YouTube is asking me to provide my ID or credit card to view this -- apparently it's an EU thing ;( Even though I'm pretty sure I watched this video multiple times and have it saved.
They already have everything thru my GMail though. I'm more bothered by the fact that for the last 15 (?) years all I had to do was log in and now suddenly it's not enough -- for videos I've already viewed.
That is IDE's job because images can just be embedded in markdown comments... Version controlling non-text comments seems to be an unsolved problem though.
No general purpose. I know the guy who made this and the hype actually started on a Minecraft forum for developers where there were a lot of Eclipse vs. IntelliJ arguments. It was a hilarious addition to any “What is the best IDE?” threads! He became quite interested in OCR and thought this would be a fun project and thus MS Paint IDE was born!
>Can read, parse, and highlight code from purely image files
>Finding and replacing of text from image files
These two features actually seem pretty useful. There's been more than one time i've found code as an image or something it would have been nice to be able to copy.
To be honest, it's come up enough that i've wanted to be able to copy text directly from an image I've wondered if such a tool existed. Never enough to actually go look for one, I'm sure many exist, but enough that i've thought about it at least.
There’s an app called Memos on iOS that has that capability. It’s great for searching images for text, for example I use it to take photos of my receipts, menus, screenshots, and entirely it’s on device and nearly instant (with 40k images). I’m sure other apps exist for various platforms and in the same niche. Looks like iOS 15 is adding text selection to their photos tool so if there’s a phone number visible it’s selectable and interactive.
Not totally related, but enough that I’ll give a shout out to tabula. It can ocr tabular data from a pdf. I’m not affiliated but I really need to get my company to contribute $$$ to the project. For now I’ll namecheck them.
My curiosity is piqued, but I also found it hard to navigate this web site. How do I see screenshots? When I clicked "Info" on the Theming section I was taken back to the top of the home page
I'm also on Firefox (Focus) on Android. I found the GitHub link at the bottom of the page: https://github.com/MSPaintIDE/MSPaintIDE . It has screenshots and a video of usage.
I think the whole idea is cool! It doesn't have to be useful to be cool, in fact some of the coolest projects are eminently unuseful.
I think this is an awesome resume project. They've built an IDE (which is impressive by itself), and then they've got this whole parsing code from OCR thing on top that's not necessarily useful but man is it cool. The fact that it shows a good sense of humor is just icing on the cake.
Like, search and replace on pictures of code contained in PNG files... Just amazing.
That was essentially the goal with this in the end, I was able to talk to red hat developers about the actual IDE part, do a ton of research on the custom OCR, learn about the Google Assistant API, and a ton of more stuff.
I'm glad you enjoy the project, I dumped way more time than I probably should have in this silly thing, but it should pay off when I start looking for jobs in the field lol
Ah I am in no way trying to be dismissive - this is really cool by itself, and it feels like there may be applications of this that would be highly useful at the same time.
mspaint is still one of those things I instantly reach for when I've got a framebuffer on my clipboard and I quickly need to make edits for pasting into email/issue/etc.
Almost everyone else on my team uses some other fancy bullshit that is probably better in every way, but I have found deep comfort in the simplicity & speed of this ancient application.
My preference for mspaint is probably out of habit from working for a megacorp that disallowed installing of any third party applications on work computers. It was the most accessible option on any computer in the org.
MS Paint's convenience and simplicity is underrated. I end up subconsciously using it more often than I think I do. Screenshot pastes, quick edits to blur out stuff before sharing etc.
This is a failure of Windows's screenshot tool though, in my opinion. I find this incredibly clunky. On Plasma/KDE, pressing "print screen" takes a screenshot of the complete screen, and a dialog opens and offers you to copy the screenshot into the clipboard, to save it in a file or to open / edit it with the tool of your choice. You can also take another screenshot of the entire screen, or a window, or an area that you can draw with the mouse, with a delay or not.
On other environments, the screenshot is automatically saved in a file without interaction. I'm not a huge fan but this is what you end up doing most of the time on Windows anyway, but by manually pasting in Paint and saving.
Win+PrtScr saves the screenshot as a PNG file in Pictures\Screenshots.
Windows also ships with a tool called Snipping tool[0], but that now says that it will be replaced by Snip & Sketch [1].
If you want to quickly take a cropped screenshot you can use Win+Shift+S. It only saves to the clipboard, but a lot of places, like imgur and Github, supports pasting images so I often find it more convenient than to have a bunch of old files cluttering the system.
Snip and sketch allows you to save a copy of your snip. For me, that's the tool that comes up when I do the Win+Shift+S shortcut. Really handy tool and shortcut.
It allows you to select a region of the screen, then copies it to your clipboard, so you can easily paste it to other programs.
It’s the best workflow there is because it requires no other running tools, and the binding is even simpler than ctrl+cmd+shift+4 on MacOS.
I know MS Paint is seen as a joke but what is the Linux program with equivalent functionality that actually works? Recently I wanted to copy image from Firefox and paste it into a program to crop and add some text. Ubuntu did not have a program installed that would let me do that. I tried few different programs available in the repository and none of them worked well enough to perform this task. Even GIMP was not usable because the icons and text would not scale up enough to be visible by human eye on 4k 15" laptop screen. In the end I had to reboot into Windows and use MS Paint which had this done in a flash. So, what is the Linux Paint that actually works like MS Paint?
For a little more functionality (but still less complexity than GIMP or Krita), Pinta has a tabbed interface based on Paint.NET. It supports layers, but does not yet support HiDPI:
GIMP's current version (based on GTK+ 2) only has basic support for HiDPI, but their development version (based on GTK+ 3) has full support. I've found it to be quite stable:
Seconding (or third-fourthing?) kolourpaint. Not just the scaling, but I love that it supports true png transparency as just like if it were another color.
I use mspaint seriously for mock-ups. Because you can’t do too much you dont waste time on perfectionism you can just do enough to communicate a design. It’s a brain hack. Lack of features (and vectors) is a feature!
100% agree. I used to use pencil and paper (and still do if I'm in person), but for a quick and dirty sketch to communicate ideas over screen share, MSPaint hits the sweet spot between speed and flexibility
Yes. Pencil and paper is better for a new ui design. Paint comes into its own when you already am have the app and desire to change the interface, or say create a new dialog box similar to an existing one.
Pinta is like paint.net on Linux but way less polished (it's image editor core started as a port of Paint.net 3.0's when paint.net was still open source, but it's UI was a clone in GTK). I remember being particularly unimpressed when I tried using it for low res image manipulation and discovered the selection "marching ants" and resize handles were rendered at the canvas resolution, for example.
At least for me, Krita has ended up as my paint.net replacement, but it is a step up in complexity from paint.net (and hence two steps up from paint)
For me, MS Paint is really good at pixel art. Pinta seems to be good at it as well. At first glance, Krita looks like more of a painting software, kind of closer to Photoshop than to Paint.
This has a vaguely steam punk sensibility of a rethink of those old punch cards using only technology / techniques from the current era. Instead of the cards you've got image files.
Maybe I missed it, but it would be good if it also created image outputs from the program stdout.
I'm both confused and impressed by this... really can't think of a use case other than mentioned in previous comment about parsing out code from an image copied from somewhere, which is rare. Maybe pitch to some VC's, they might put in a couple millions just in case this is a hidden unicorn or something...
Suggestion: start the demo by showing what the thing actually does.
I bet most visitors won't actually ever download/install. But I certainly was very curios to see what the hell this was, and it was rewarding to skip to the actual demo.
"It provides a clean and simple interface, with your actual programming in a program you and millions of others already know how to use, and already have."
maybe the next level of leetcode will be to write code in this IDE using only the spray can tool, and if you don't get it done in less than 1 minute, they will pass on you. of course, everyone will happily go along with it.
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."
or a
"We choose to go to the Moon not because it is easy but because it is hard."
situation?