PaintFX

PaintFX is an application in Java for drawing, graphics editing, and image editing, similar to MSPaint.

Author

This Tool is built by Georgio Yammine.

Drawing tools

Pen, Brush, Eraser, Color Picker, Bucket Fill, along 2 color selectors one for left click and the other for the right click.

Shapes

Rectangle, Round Rectangle, Ellipse.

Features

Canvas zoom and drag, open/save image, undo/redo, canvas resize, Escape to discard current drawing.

Getting PaintFx - Releases

Application builds can be found under releases for both Windows and Mac devices.

You can run the release by opening bin/PaintFX[.bat]

Source code

We have two important branches:

• main -> Java 11 and javaFx 11 and above (actively developed branch)
• jdk-8 -> Java 8 (no longer in development)

Getting Started

• Required Software dependencies

  1. JDK 11+: OpenJDK 11 (LTS) - JVM: Hotspot, AdoptOpenJDK 11, available at https://adoptopenjdk.net/.

• Dependencies automatically installed by Maven

  • org.openjfx JavaFX 16
  • org.jfxtras jmetro 11.6.15
  • org.openjfx javafx-swing 15.0.1

• Running Process

  1. Run via IDE launcher.Main
  2. Run via Maven: mvn javafx:run

• Building Process

  mvn clean javafx:jlink

  • cross building

    To create a cross platform build (for a different OS): First, you will need the JDKs for those other platforms. Download them as archives (zip or tar.gz), not installers from https://adoptopenjdk.net/releases.html, and unpack them to directories of your choice. Then pass this to the jmodsPath tag in the pom.xml file as follows:

    <plugin>
            <groupId>org.openjfx</groupId>
            <artifactId>javafx-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>0.0.6</version>
            <configuration>
                <launcher>Information Theory Calculator</launcher>
                <mainClass>launcher.Main</mainClass>
                <!--for building for cross platform include the platform jdk below (/Contents/Home/jmods)-->
                <jmodsPath>
                        <!--mac-->
                    C:/Program Files/AdoptOpenJDK/mac/OpenJDK11U-jdk_x64_mac_hotspot_11.0.11_9/jdk-11.0.11+9/Contents/Home/jmods
                </jmodsPath>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    

    After passing the target JDK, running mvn clean javafx:jlink will generate the image for the target OS.

    Generated Image can be found under target/image.

License

The project is licensed under GPL 3. See LICENSE file for the full license.

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