WinTex Substitute for Windows 7

[Nash]

Enjay, in Wintex there is a feature that - when you double-click a graphic/sprite, Wintex will launch MS Paint with said lump loaded as a BMP. The user would be able to mess around with it in MS Paint, and upon saving and closing, the lump will be updated (retaining offsets).

I wonder if Slade has such a feature? I haven't gotten around to installing it yet. If Slade would have such a feature, it would be great if I could specify which paint program to use, because I hate MS Paint. :P

[Enjay]

Ah right, I understand. So it's not that Wintex has abuilt in mini graphics editing program but rather it calls Paint. That's a much better system - especially if, as you suggest, the program that gets called can be specified by the user.

[neoworm]

I believe making such extension for slade shoudnt be a problem. But what I would like to see much rather is direct export to sprite sheet. Since that is what I am usually working with.

Another crazy feature that would save A LOT of time would IMPORT from sprite sheet.

[sirjuddington]

Sprite sheets are something I've thought about, but they would either need to be arranged in a fixed grid, or have extra information about the single sprite frames stored somewhere, either in a separate file or perhaps a png chunk (though many paint programs won't keep this information)

[NeuralStunner]

Seeing as automated slicing tends to get weird when the sprite is in chunks (E.G. gib animations), I think it would be good to have a manual mode where you select everything that will be included in each sprite, then it'll be cropped and blank-space trimmed.

The latter of which would still be an awesome feature in general.

[ETTiNGRiNDER]

Even just having sprite sheet exporting without necessarily having importing too would be nice.