Re: CamoPicker - RC1 - Collaboration / Beta Testing Discussion Boards

If anyone is interested, you can get it here:

http://www.paddedwall.org/guns/downloads/camopicker.zip[^]

It's a 2.7MB download. Unzip it to a folder of your choice. The ZIP file contains:

CamoPicker.EXE
CamoPickerData.XML

...as well as four sub-folders:

Weapons (contains weapon templates)
Patterns (contains camo pattern templates)
ColorData (contains paint system data)
TestLandscapes (contains several landscape photos)

I'm curious to see how everyone does without any supporting documentation (which I'm currently working on), and to see if anything weird happens.

The About box contains several links. The only one that doesn't have anything meaningful is the "Download latest version" link at the top of the form (I'm working on the documentation and associated web at this time. The rest of them *should* go somewhere useful.

Known Weirdness:

0) When moving, rotating, or scaling the visualized weapon on the landscape, it flashes - BAD.

1) When rotating the visualized weapon, the rotation origin is always in the same place - the upper-left corner of the overlaid weapon image.

If anyone looking at this has a lot of experience with GDI+ in .Net, I'd be interested in hearing from you regarding the two weirdness items above.

Thanks for looking.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

Link seems broken, results in a 404 Frown | :(

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

Try it again.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

Looks cool on Win7, just visualized the camouflage of a weapon Smile | :)

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

I love it when a plan comes together. Smile | :)

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

New version available:

Download link is at the bottom of the page[^]

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
0) When moving, rotating, or scaling the visualized weapon on the landscape, it flashes - BAD.

Have you enabled double-buffering? There's a couple articles here on CP, but I'm loathe to reference any as I can't tell if they're actually any good.

Marc

My Blog

The custom picture box itself is double buffered.

I actually know why the flashing is occurring (I'm redrawing the background image in order to clear the old overlaid image), but any attempt to address it caused MUCH bigger issues.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

Then simply double buffer yourself by first rendering into a bitmap and then updating the image in the control.

And from the clouds a mighty voice spoke:
"Smile and be happy, for it could come worse!"

And I smiled and was happy
And it came worse.

Well, I'm not really looking for an answer to that until aft the initial release.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

New version available:

Download link is at the bottom of the page[^]

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-----
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
-----
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

Great. How did you get rid of the flickering? In WinForms I always found the double bbuffering to be hit and miss.

And from the clouds a mighty voice spoke:
"Smile and be happy, for it could come worse!"

And I smiled and was happy
And it came worse.

New version available:

Download link is at the bottom of the page[^]

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-----
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

Hi JSOP

Nice app, but I just found a way to make it crash, due to an "Unhandled exception".

Steps used to reproduce the crash:

1) Select an image
(I just used one of the sample images in Windows 7)

2) Get colors

3) Select "Simple visualization"

4) Select "Advanced visualization..."
(Just close the dialog, clicking OK or Cancel)

5) Select "Simple visualization"

6) Select "Advanced visualization..."
(BOOM!!!)

Try and be helpfull, post the stacktrace that was included in the exception Smile | :)

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

Good point D'Oh! | :doh:

Here is the complete error description:

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.ArgumentException: Parameter is not valid.
at System.Drawing.Image.get_Width()
at System.Drawing.Image.get_Size()
at System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox.ImageRectangleFromSizeMode(PictureBoxSizeMode mode)
at System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox.OnPaint(PaintEventArgs pe)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.PaintWithErrorHandling(PaintEventArgs e, Int16 layer)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmPaint(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.237 (RTMGDR.030319-2300)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
CamoPicker
Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/Michael%20B.%20Jensen/Downloads/camopicker/CamoPicker/CamoPicker.exe
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.235 built by: RTMGDR
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
System
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.236 built by: RTMGDR
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Xml.Linq
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.1 built by: RTMRel
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml.Linq/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.Linq.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Core
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.233 built by: RTMGDR
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Core/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Core.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Xml
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.0.30319.233 built by: RTMGDR
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
----------------------------------------

************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
<system.windows.forms jitdebugging="true">

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.

Yeah, I got it already, and I'm working it.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

Well, I was trying to be clever with the advanced vis box, and it's come back to bite me on the ass. I wanted to be able to retain the last configured layer set when the user clicked OK in the form, so I figured I'd just hide the form when they clicked ok or cancel, and then re-show it when the clicked the adv vis button in the main form. Essentially, I was treating the form as if it was modeless, and doing that allowed me to not worry about the layer set between invocations. Well, fixing the problem you reported caused me to repeatedly bring up the form and eventually, it stops showing (even though the code is being hit). I therefore have to refactor the mechanism...

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-----
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
-----
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

I fixed it, and will be uploading a new version after I get home from work this evening.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-----
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
-----
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

New version available:

Download link is at the bottom of the page[^]

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-----
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
-----
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

Pretty awesome!

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I'm curious to see how everyone does without any supporting documentation (which I'm currently working on), and to see if anything weird happens.

I could figure it out almost instantly (may not mean anything, who are the intended users?)
You could change "select image" to "select background", but isn't a big issue.

A few minor points
* Make jpg the default extension (have to change it every time)
* How do you save? Is that unimplemented, or am I blind?
* A list would be nice, for the images (show everything in the backgrounds folder, maybe?)
* Allow resizing the advanced visualization form.

The crash in the message above happens for me too. Also, changing to the saved objects tab after closing advanced visualization also crashes it (I'll send the exception details if needed)

intended users - the only thing I know about them is that they own guns and computers.

Saving objects is planned, but not currently available to the users.

Resizing in the advanced visualization form - to what purpose? The only thing they're doing there is building the weapon image. Resizing doesn't apply.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-----
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
-----
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

modified 3-Oct-11 8:50am.

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Resizing in the advanced visualization form - to what purpose? The only thing they're doing there is building the weapon image. Resizing doesn't apply.

Some weapon images were clipped, I thought it would be nice to see the entire thing.
(or scale the weapon, that would make more sense I suppose)

Yeah, that's probably the pistol, right?

~~I'll think on that a bit...~~ Fixed.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-----
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
-----
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

modified 3-Oct-11 10:18am.

Another possible bug

* Pick a background
* Select only some of the colors in it
* Open advanced visualization form

Result - all colors are used in the camo pattern