Hi All,

I created portable version of Gimp Painter 2.8 for Windows 64-bit and 32-bit. These are portable versions and should not interfere with your regular Gimp.

It has been suggested that Ramon's GPS (http://www.ramonmiranda.com/p/gps.html) be pre-installed. However, I noticed that he provides presets and brushes and so I think it *should be* relatively straightforward to install them once you install Gimp Painter. Just unzip his download into .gimp-2.8 that is created as part of the portable process. I have not tested this assertion. So, feel free to post your comments about it here.

I have not used Painter before and so can't say if what it does is normal or a bug.

Here are the downloads:

64-bit: http://www.partha.com/temp/Gimp-Painter ... e64bit.exe
32-bit: http://www.partha.com/temp/Gimp-Painter ... e32bit.exe

Please let me know if you have any issues. I am sure there are experts here who can solve them for you.

Thanks,
Partha

Cool ...thank a lot !
Just installed

Maybe disguised as the Wilber equivalent of the Doctor Frankstein i will soon try some insane experiment...

Thanks so much, Its like a Christmas joining this site I
keep receiving lovely presents.

Thank you PARTHA
you're awesome

Thank you very much

It took me a little why to find how to use the MyPaint brushes (didn't noticed the new button in the toolshelf) .

Unfortunately, at least on win32 as it's what i use, performance is truly awfull.
The same as you win32 build of 2.8.4.

I can't make comparison because have no idea on how to install Gimp painter+Mypaint brushes on the window version of 2.8.4 released on gimp.org (that does not have the horrible performance of your version of 2.8.4 and is fast and smooth) to see if it's again your win32 build that has problem or if in that case it is the combination of GimpPainter+MyPaint brushes.

Hi Brogun,

This is twice you have mentioned that the performance is "truly awful". While it may be so for you, I have not had such a report as of yet. Without giving any details, it is hard to help you.

If the performance that you get from the gimp.org download is "fast and smooth", then you should use that version. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that version.

At the end of the day, I don't provide these builds with any guarantees, implied or otherwise, and you are free to delete this version.

Thanks,
Partha

That's great if other people can use your 2.8.4 builds on win32 without noticing a big performance hit between it and your past 2.8.2 (that was as good as 2.6.10 for the performance) , and do not see any difference in performance with the semi official 2.8.4.

Too bad that's very different from what i see on my win32 system, in which your 2.8.2 performed very good, the same as the semi official 2.8.4 does, but your 2.8.4 do not (and unforunately neither your gimppainter version too).

But i reported this because i thought you were seeking feedback on what you shared


My bad, i'll keep silent now.

You completely ignored the part where I said "..without giving any details"?

Without this I am left guessing why it affects you and does not affect others.

One guess I have is, cairo is the culprit. You could experiment by copying all the cairo related DLLs from 2.8.2 and putting them onto 2.8.4 and see if you still the performance hit.

Thank you Partha for the quick portage of Gimp Painter 2.8 on Windows and thank to MareroQ to have revived this topic.
I have downloaded and tested your version and it work correctly on my computer, not with a great performance but acceptable given the "experimental" configuration. Maybe some settings could improve it.
I wanted to see the behaviour of Gimp Painter with this version, but also how worked the Brushes of MyPaint, and I am satisfied of them.
I have two things which have not a nice behaviour, the movements are slow and sometime the mouse cursor is offset from the features of the tools.
It seems that it's not possible to stop the brushes of My Paint when they are used, as soon as a MyPaint Brushe is selected the drawing starts without clicking on the canvas.

I will tested again to understand the behaviour of Gimp Painter.

Well, i assumed you had read previously the report i made on your Gimp 2.8.4 release thread in which i gave the detail of what was wrong.

And indeed, it's cairo (at least on Win32), because as soon as i moved the libcairo-2.dll
from your ...\Gimp-2.8.2\bin\
into your ...\gimp-painter\bin\

suddenly no more atrociously slow brush, no more extreme cursor lag, it is -as fast and smooth- as your Gimp 2.8.2 was, even the MyPaint brushes are very fast and smooth.

Only problem then is the remaining problem steeno mentionned : the brushes can't be stopped.
But their behaviour is very close to the original MyPaint brushes, definitively potential in making Gimp not only a very good image editor, but a fantastic painting program in the same time.

Thanks for testing!

I sort of stopped looking at Gimp painter because Onkel already created another version.

I noticed that the brush could not be stopped as well. I don't know what the issue there is. Do you see the same issue with Onkel's version?

is this the same problem mentioned above by Brogun?

I just tried what i think is his version :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-pa ... kel_Hatti/

the win32 version of his gimp painter and i noticed that :
- it's affected by the same slow/laggy brushes and cursor, again cairo as it's fixed (and brushes/cursor are smooth and fast again) by replacing his libcairo-2.dll by your 2.8.2 libcairo-2.dll

- the Mypaint brush are not affected by the "brush are not stopping" problem of your build.

I have read that Onkel_Hatti wrote :
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6459&start=20#p80862


hinting that there are certainly problems between gimp painter and recent gimp code (could they be related to the brush not stopping in your own build ?)

Thanks for gimp-painter windows 64 everything works wel except for the brushes of mypaint
When I chose a brush of mypaint it is selected but with drawing it has a lot of delay
Is there a button what i have to change to prefent this

Thanks for the port.
My problem with it is the way that bar behaves on the top that appears in one-window mode.
When you use the path tool or the colour picker, it gets wider and pushes all tools and the picture down, so the position I want to pick from moves away from the cursor position and lags a bit due to the movement and then it moves back up when a brush is picked. It doesn't lag if docks are hidden, however I cannot see an option to disable that one particular dock.
It should either be closable, or fixed in size or if it has to get thicker, just cover more of the drawing area but not move it.

Also, to trace a path or to make a selection from the path, it seems no longer possible from the reglar menu and only in the new top dock.

Maybe I missed the means of disabling that menu/dock, but I believe I checked all options and

windows 8 64bit. i tried. brush doesn't stop on mouseup. rest is good
kindly fix and reply here. huge thanks for all the efforts. regards,lala