Nathive 0.810 alpha release note

6 October 2008

Finally packages and portable versions of Nathive 0.810 alpha are ready to download, these are the details of the first public version of the project. I hope you enjoy testing and coments me your impressions.

About packages and architectures

I had some problems (all) on porting the package .deb to .rpm, effort using alien has been totally useless, even adjusting to the Debian package guidelines alien does not work:

markos@mygnupc:~$ alien -r nathive_0.810-1_i386.deb
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm line 303.
Package build failed. Here's the log of the command (cd nathive-0.810; rpmbuild -bb --target i386 nathive-0.810-2.spec):
error: Línea 5: Eetiqueta vacía: Summary:
Construyendo las plataformas de destino: i386
Construyendo para el objetivo i386
markos@mygnupc:~$

...and all that lost time has meant that I has not been able to prepare the 64bit portable version, would be cool a little help, right now, I'm very tired, so I apologize...

UPDATE: 64bit Portable is now available.

Things that work in 0.810 alpha

• Open/close files in tabs.
• Fullscreen.
• Hide/show sidebar.
• RGB, HSV and hexadecimal color.
• Restore default color.
• Create object.
• Move objects with select tool.
• Brush and all its parameters.
• Shape.
• Size.
• Smoothing.
• Opacity.
• Auto-spacing.
• Restore default brush.
• Right-click size change.

Things that work WRONG in 0.810 alpha

• Object auto-resize has finally not implemented (yet), so all new objects has document size and could give heavy sensation on move.
• Picker tool is based on early versions, so do not follow objects move.
• Save is based on early versions, so only output in ./output.png and export opacity grid too.
• Other bugs.

Things that NOT work in 0.810 alpha

• New file.
• Preferences edit/save gui.
• About.
• Copy/reorder/delete objects.
• Load/save brush parameters.
• Visual tool interface.
• Undo/redo.
• Zoom.
• Mask.
• Select and picker secondary tool function.
• Palette change buttons.