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Thought I'd try the new release, and while there's plenty of glitches (eg it blue-screened after install), there's some useful things that are working. Sublime

Thought I'd try the new release, and while there's plenty of glitches (eg it blue-screened after install), there's some useful things that are working. Sublime Text installed and seems to work, though the antialiasing is not very good & makes the text difficult to read. I keep testing my own Win32 Photoshop plug-ins on ReactOS, and they seem to work fine in my makeshift graphics editor. I'm having a hard time finding any glitches at all with those plug-ins now. As I mentioned elsewhere, Opera 12.18 works okay, and I'm posting this comment from ReactOS & Opera (installed via Parallels Desktop).

tomcam 9y ago
Wait... you have written a "makeshift" graphics editor that can already use Photoshop plugins? I would love to hear more about that!
- SyneRyder 9y ago
  It was made with Delphi 2005, ImageEn [1] (a Delphi component for loading & saving image file formats) and the Centaurix Delphi Photoshop component. Sadly Centaurix went out of business. Their SDK was designed for writing Photoshop plugins, but it also had some functions for loading & testing Photoshop plugins, and I used those. There were a lot of bugs that I had to patch to get it working. I made it because my products are Photoshop plug-ins [2], but a lot of people were downloading them without having Photoshop. People would complain after installing that there wasn't a program to run. I thought including a bare-bones standalone graphics editor (no layers, no selections) with the Photoshop plugin download would solve that problem. Actually, it didn't move the needle at all. Seems the people most likely to buy already had Photoshop / PaintShop Pro etc anyway. But it's been useful for running tests on ReactOS, or back when I was using Wine instead of Parallels on my Mac. [1] https://www.imageen.com/ https://www.imageen.com/ [2] https://www.namesuppressed.com/ https://www.namesuppressed.com/
  - jeditobe 9y ago
    Could you make some demo videos about your program and ReactOS?
    - SyneRyder 9y ago
      That's a great idea, I hadn't thought of making a screencast of it running on ReactOS. Might take me some time to put together, I'm not sure Camtasia / BB Flashback will work on ReactOS... but it's worth a try!
  - tomcam 9y ago
    Wonderful story. Thank you

tomcam 9y ago

Wait... you have written a "makeshift" graphics editor that can already use Photoshop plugins? I would love to hear more about that!

SyneRyder 9y ago
It was made with Delphi 2005, ImageEn [1] (a Delphi component for loading & saving image file formats) and the Centaurix Delphi Photoshop component. Sadly Centaurix went out of business. Their SDK was designed for writing Photoshop plugins, but it also had some functions for loading & testing Photoshop plugins, and I used those. There were a lot of bugs that I had to patch to get it working. I made it because my products are Photoshop plug-ins [2], but a lot of people were downloading them without having Photoshop. People would complain after installing that there wasn't a program to run. I thought including a bare-bones standalone graphics editor (no layers, no selections) with the Photoshop plugin download would solve that problem. Actually, it didn't move the needle at all. Seems the people most likely to buy already had Photoshop / PaintShop Pro etc anyway. But it's been useful for running tests on ReactOS, or back when I was using Wine instead of Parallels on my Mac. [1] https://www.imageen.com/ https://www.imageen.com/ [2] https://www.namesuppressed.com/ https://www.namesuppressed.com/
- jeditobe 9y ago
  Could you make some demo videos about your program and ReactOS?
  - SyneRyder 9y ago
    That's a great idea, I hadn't thought of making a screencast of it running on ReactOS. Might take me some time to put together, I'm not sure Camtasia / BB Flashback will work on ReactOS... but it's worth a try!
- tomcam 9y ago
  Wonderful story. Thank you