Resource Programming in MS Paint [UPDATED]

Azim · Dec 21, 2017

A lot of ppl say that Eclipse is bad, but noone of them provided any reasons.

MrDienns · Dec 21, 2017

Azim said: ↑

A lot of ppl say that Eclipse is bad, but noone of them provided any reasons.
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Git integration sucks

When having large projects, the lag becomes so bad opening a file takes like 10 seconds

It looks like shit (and themes dont work properly)

Maven/Gradle dependencies are cached to oblivion

Instead of integrating into everything (like IntelliJ), you gotta install shitty addons for everything

PiggyPiglet · Dec 21, 2017

MiniDigger said: ↑

yeah, its crazy to think that ppl actually would want to use that :O
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Azim said: ↑

A lot of ppl say that Eclipse is bad, but noone of them provided any reasons.
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MrDienns said: ↑

Git integration sucks

When having large projects, the lag becomes so bad opening a file takes like 10 seconds

It looks like shit (and themes dont work properly)

Maven/Gradle dependencies are cached to oblivion

Instead of integrating into everything (like IntelliJ), you gotta install shitty addons for everything

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let's keep this majestic thread pure and not start an ide argument? kthx

MiniDigger · Dec 21, 2017

Azim said: ↑

A lot of ppl say that Eclipse is bad, but noone of them provided any reasons.
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just google "site:spigotmc.org intellij eclipse" and you will see countless threads with countless reasons why it sucks.
but obviously paint is far superior so lets stop discussion inferior ides here

MiniDigger · Dec 21, 2017

Technerder said: ↑

Add a builtin obfuscator.
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only if you also add a build in decompiler and deobfuscator

MiniDigger · Dec 21, 2017

Technerder said: ↑

I knew you were going to say something about that lmao.
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you would be sad if I didn't

Chazmondo · Dec 21, 2017

MiniDigger said: ↑

only if you also add a build in decompiler and deobfuscator
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But I always knew you were a massive fan of scrapping open source and going with obfuscation ?

Kappa

Z3tr0nix · Dec 22, 2017

RubbaBoy said: ↑

Just thought I'd post this here since more stuff like this was requested, and people seemed to love this. I know some people here don't have MS Paint, so now you can make your programs in Minecraft Books! Including syntax highlighting/error highlighting, executing in-server, and jar compiling, so it would be possible to program plugins for your server in your server. Sources on GitHub as always, sorry it took me so long to make this, I had to go some places this week, and my VPS decided to DDOS somebody or something like that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/mc-book-ide.50946/
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OMG FINALLY I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SINCE OCT 19, 1973, FINALLY!

SoulWolfX · Dec 22, 2017

RubbaBoy said: ↑

People joke about what IDE they use often, things like Word, MS Notepad, sometimes even Eclipse, and then often times MS Paint. People joke about MS Paint because it's not even a text editor, people joke about it because it doesn't have one feature in common with IDEs. Well, this application gives MS Paint a boost, and lets MS Paint highlight, compile, and execute code, with just a few clicks of a button, and only text coming from MS Paint. It is now much more practical than things like Word, Notepad, and obviously Eclipse.

How it works
The way the MS Paint IDE works, is it is an application running separately from MS Paint. You input some locations for things like input image, output image location, compile to folder, etc. Once you save your code to MS Paint, you click Compile/Execute and the program uses a custom OCR implementation designed especially for MS Paint and code, then syntax highlights it, and then uses Java's JDK to compile the code and execute it. All output from the compiler and application compiled are outputted via images.

Usage Tutorial
First to open the program, if you intend to compile your application, you must run the jar from your JDK. This can be done by doing something like C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\bin\java.exe -jar MSPaintIDE-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar in your command line. This should be modified for your location of java.exe in your JDK's directory.

Before you do anything with highlighting, compiling and executing, you must set some paths first. You can manually input them in the text boxes, or click Change and select files, or type in names in the selector. Here is what the following options do and should be set at:

Input Image/Image Folder
The only image (or folder of images) you are saving from MS Paint.

Highlighted Out Directory
The path of the directory for input files that will be highlighted to. This should be separate from your input.

Cache File Directory
The location of where the .txt documents should be save to as the cache of the image. If the input image hasn't changed since this file has been modified, it will read from this and not the input image. This is to save a lot of time reading text.

Class File Output
A folder to put all the compiled files.

Compiled Jar Output
The file which the compiled .jar should be placed.

Library jar(s) path
The location of any libraries to be compiled in the classpath of your project. This can be a single .jar file, or a directory containing multiple .jars.

Compile other file(s) path
The location for other files (eg. META-INF, plugin.yml, etc) to be compiled in the jar. This may be one singular file or a directory of files to be placed into the jar.

Letter Directory
The directory of all the letters, this should have come packaged with the release, so select that folder's location.

Compiler Output
The image file that will contain all compiler output, like status, times, and errors. If no image is found by this name and location, one will be created.

Program Output
The image file that will contain all of the compiled program's output, like status, times, and errors. If no image is found by this name and location, one will be created.

Note: All options are saved in a file named options.txt in the same directory of your jar, to keep you from re choosing everything every restart

Once you have all of the options set, you can be free to program in MS Paint, saving to the file you set earlier. The font must be in font size 16, with the font family being Verdana. If people are super interested in this (Which I doubt, but who knows) I would make it support more fonts, but right now that's not a top priority.

Screenshots

Examples of a program with errors

Changelog
12/11/17 - Release 1.0:
- Initial release

12/13/17 - Release 1.1:
- Added "Probe" mode, making scans over 10x faster
- Added library support
- Added .jar compilation support

12/14/17 - Release 1.2:
- Added multiple class support

This project is available on GitHub, with source and release jars

Donations
If anyone would like to support me with donations, I would be extremely grateful, and would help support for future suggested projects If you donate and would like your name posted here, please PM me!

Thank you to:
@Stef
@Meepidy

Feel free to donate via PayPal
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wat about a movie maker ide?

RubbaBoy · Dec 22, 2017

SoulWolfX said: ↑

wat about a movie maker ide?
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I started something else for now, but I feel like that's going to be my next project, that's an amazing idea.

Webmets · Dec 22, 2017

SoulWolfX said: ↑

wat about a movie maker ide?
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I like your way of thinking

SoulWolfX · Dec 22, 2017

RubbaBoy said: ↑

I started something else for now, but I feel like that's going to be my next project, that's an amazing idea.
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Thanks, it would be nice if you could credit me but obviously not required if u want 2 credit me my yt link is youtube.com/c/SoulWolfGamer =D

Webmets said: ↑

I like your way of thinking
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thank you.

AlanZ · Dec 22, 2017

SoulWolfX said: ↑

wat about a movie maker ide?
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Movie maker sorta died, didn't it?

aolko · Dec 26, 2017

expected piet, kinda disappointed

foncused · Dec 27, 2017

Well, I started out laughing and thinking this was a troll thread...then I kept reading. Now I am just conf--, I mean, foncused. I will be trying this out when I get the chance, and if I like it enough, MS Paint may be my new IDE.

mathhulk · Dec 27, 2017

foncused said: ↑

Well, I started out laughing and thinking this was a troll thread...then I kept reading. Now I am just conf--, I mean, foncused. I will be trying this out when I get the chance, and if I like it enough, MS Paint may be my new IDE.
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I don't know about you, but I've been laughing since he even suggested the idea and still am laughing. I don't think I'll be turning green much anymore with this beautiful IDE around. Heck, with it's amazing error reporting, I'll never even need to get mad at myself for making mistakes anymore.

Unlike the individual above me, I can't say that MS Paint will be my new IDE... It already is! I've been using MS Paint since its early stages of development and always will use MS Paint. I've always been a Rubba duckling and I think this project is amazing.

I definitely vouch for this IDE and would recommend it over Eclipse, IntelliJ and even Notepad... but I cannot vouch for the sanity of the user after delving into such an amazing application.

Crimpson · Dec 27, 2017

I want a black theme can you add that

MrDienns · Dec 27, 2017

Crimpson said: ↑

I want a black theme can you add that
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cant you just grab the paint bucket and fill it with black?

MiniDigger · Dec 30, 2017

but does it also run on my offline and analog ms paint?

MrDienns · Dec 30, 2017

MiniDigger said: ↑

but does it also run on my offline and analog ms paint?

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