SKINMAN, the new strike by g200kg (early early alpha)

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Dunks wrote:I have a crash sometimes when using the mouse wheel to change values especially position in larger files I find though if I move the object with a mouse click or enter the value with keyboard first it wont crash with mouse wheel.
Seems that the prog has some problems about memory management.
The bigger a project becomes (more knobs, textures) the more likely it crashes when changing values or resizing objects. I hope this will be fixed, because it's a great tool.

A feature request: I often need to move objects some pixels. Clicking on objects in the graphic not always selects the correct one, so I select them in the text list. But then I always have to click the windows title to change the focus to be able to use the cursor keys. Any chance to solve this in a different way?
The option for aligning selected objects is nice, but it should work the way that the last object selected or even better the object I clicked with the right mouse button for the menu is the "master" object that does not change it's position.
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hello,
WOK wrote:
Dunks wrote:I have a crash sometimes when using the mouse wheel to change values especially position in larger files I find though if I move the object with a mouse click or enter the value with keyboard first it wont crash with mouse wheel.
Seems that the prog has some problems about memory management.
The bigger a project becomes (more knobs, textures) the more likely it crashes when changing values or resizing objects. I hope this will be fixed, because it's a great tool.
Thank you for the report.
I will investigate.

WOK wrote:The option for aligning selected objects is nice, but it should work the way that the last object selected or even better the object I clicked with the right mouse button for the menu is the "master" object that does not change it's position.
Sorry for the poor documentation,
the "master" is the current focused object. that is confirmed with 'white rect' marker when pressing SHIFT or CTRL key.
that can be changed by SHIFT+LCLICK on the Canvas
(Cannot be changed by clicking on the Tree, (yes, that should be improved))

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hello,
Updated to ver0.997
http://www.g200kg.com/en/software/skinman.html

* BugFix: Crush in some case, especially move a primitive by wheel after Undo.
* Improved hehavior of multiple selection on the Tree window.
Shift+Click => add to selection
Ctrl+Click => toggle selection
means that can change the 'Master of Aligning' from tree-view.
:)

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g200kg wrote:hello,
Updated to ver0.997
http://www.g200kg.com/en/software/skinman.html

* BugFix: Crush in some case, especially move a primitive by wheel after Undo.
* Improved hehavior of multiple selection on the Tree window.
Shift+Click => add to selection
Ctrl+Click => toggle selection
means that can change the 'Master of Aligning' from tree-view.
:)
Thanks, I will try.
I also posted a problem in the Knobman thread.....
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little question: think i've been having problems loading projects
due to version incompatibilities. which (recent)versions are compatible?
- if any -
and is there a way of getting round this with older files?

same question for knobman files.

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hello,
mztk wrote:little question: think i've been having problems loading projects
due to version incompatibilities. which (recent)versions are compatible?
- if any -
and is there a way of getting round this with older files?

same question for knobman files.
I have been careful with the compatibility but probably not perfect.
Let me know if you know the version that save the project?

And,

could you e-mail me the skin file for investigation?

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hmmm Skinman seems to be unusable now on my system. Very sluggish, Go to move a control and nothing happens, its lagged. Seems to be memmory issue on my comp. Uses about 60,000k in resources. Skinman is the only app that is like this. Can run adobe with cakwalk open, with 20 tabs of firefox, not a glitch. Clean windows and skinman, forget it.

I also have 27 "things" text, knobs, GRADIENTS, Lighting, lines, shadows etc.

Anyone else seeing anything like slowness? Or just my system?

Last project i opened took 45 seconds to open and the mem use is at 122,000k ..
~Rob.

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robrokken wrote:hmmm Skinman seems to be unusable now on my system. Very sluggish, Go to move a control and nothing happens, its lagged. Seems to be memmory issue on my comp. Uses about 60,000k in resources. Skinman is the only app that is like this. Can run adobe with cakwalk open, with 20 tabs of firefox, not a glitch. Clean windows and skinman, forget it.

I also have 27 "things" text, knobs, GRADIENTS, Lighting, lines, shadows etc.

Anyone else seeing anything like slowness? Or just my system?

Last project i opened took 45 seconds to open and the mem use is at 122,000k ..
~Rob.
hi, the 0.997 mem size is bigger than 0.98d?

in my test, the mem usage is like below
0.997 38140K
0.98d 40532K
(confirmed by TaskManager)
(the skin file is "2skins-file" you sent to me)

could you compare mem consumption to above?

*How about installed texture-files?
it may cause trouble if so big/many files are
in the texture folder.

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"*How about installed texture-files?
it may cause trouble if so big/many files are
in the texture folder."

Glad you didn't leave that little part out. I checked my texture, and it was 14MB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! seems all good now. Hope I didn't cause too much frustration.

and. I used that texture on 2 items!!

~RR.

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SkinMan 0.998 is released
http://www.g200kg.com/en/software/skinman.html

* Guide line display when select a primitive
* BugFix&Improved Group/UnGroup behavior (will not affect to lock status)
* Improved threading (at least marker&guidelines are displayed quickly)
* Some help text display on the status bar

I hope this version reduce your frustration :)

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Man! What can I say!! This is great!!!

~RR.

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A great program. I hope development will continue.

An old bug just came up again in one project: when drawing a free shape, apply mirror and rotate, and then moving it with the mouse or cursor keys, it will move in other directions then wanted (like it's following it's "old orientation").
Another small thing: the "angle" fields for drop and inside shadow show only two digits, so e.g. "180" can not be entered.
And is it possible to make the text font selection list not that wide? I have the toolbar at the right side of the screen - opening the font list the scrollbar is far right outside the screen.
Oh, and I like to use the TAB key to jump between fields. That does not work in the r-g-b number field of the color menu. :wink:
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WOK wrote:A great program. I hope development will continue.

An old bug just came up again in one project: when drawing a free shape, apply mirror and rotate, and then moving it with the mouse or cursor keys, it will move in other directions then wanted (like it's following it's "old orientation").
Another small thing: the "angle" fields for drop and inside shadow show only two digits, so e.g. "180" can not be entered.
And is it possible to make the text font selection list not that wide? I have the toolbar at the right side of the screen - opening the font list the scrollbar is far right outside the screen.
Oh, and I like to use the TAB key to jump between fields. That does not work in the r-g-b number field of the color menu. :wink:
hello WOK,
of course i am mindful of SkinMan.
thank you for the report :wink:

currently Shapes have a little troublesome data structure. i would like to improve this but that may takes a little long.

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g200kg,

is there any possibility to treat 2 (or more) background shapes as one?
i'd like to create a master background plate for a surface, which is made of different shapes with different colours, and now i'd like to treat it as one and apply a gradient _without_ the need to render the whole as one file...
regards,
brok landers
BIGTONEsounddesign
gear is as good as the innovation behind it-the man

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oh, and anotherone:
and how do i dotted lines in skinman?
regards,
brok landers
BIGTONEsounddesign
gear is as good as the innovation behind it-the man

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