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@lucky-bai lucky-bai released this 26 Jul 22:14
v0.1.1
1757c22

A universal build (Apple Silicon + Intel), signed and notarized by Apple — no Gatekeeper warning. Open the .dmg and drag Paintlet into your Applications folder. Requires macOS 10.15 or later.

New

  • Dialogs move. Resize, Settings, and the color chooser have a title bar you can drag, so a panel never has to sit on top of the thing you're trying to see. They clamp to the window, so one can't be flung somewhere you can't reach it.
  • The save panel chooses the format. A File Format popup offers PNG, JPEG, Windows BMP, and GIF — the same job as Paint's "Save as type". Picking one rewrites the extension in the filename, and the extension stays visible so you can always see what you're about to write.
  • More formats open: BMP, HEIC, and HEIF, alongside PNG, JPEG, GIF, and WebP.
  • About is a real macOS window instead of a panel drawn inside the app — close button only, and it follows your appearance setting.
  • Light appearance by default. Dark and System are still in Settings (⌘,), and your choice is remembered.

Fixed

  • Saving could quietly corrupt a file. Opening a .gif or .webp and pressing ⌘S wrote PNG bytes under the original name. The file still opened — macOS inspects content rather than trusting the extension — but it was no longer the format it claimed to be. Paintlet now re-saves in place only when it can genuinely write that format, and otherwise takes you to the save panel.
  • Esc stopped closing the Resize dialog once you clicked anywhere in it that wasn't an input field.
  • Closing a dialog with Esc threw away the active selection. Dismissing a dialog now leaves your selection where it was.
  • Input fields looked disabled. The dialog fields and the Text tool's font and size boxes used the grey of the area behind the canvas.

Changed

  • The Resize dialog's "Smooth (resample)" checkbox is gone. Paint has offered no such choice since the Windows 7 rewrite — it always resamples, and so does Paintlet.
  • "New image size" is out of Settings. New images are 800 × 600.

Also landing in this release: the signing and notarization release script (#5) and the project landing page (#6).

Full changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.1

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