   Torrent 4.4 graphics editor (DEMO) now available
  Torrent is a lightweight bitmap image editor.  You work with shapes rather than tools.  Torrent generates VB code based on the image you draw.  It is the stated goal of Torrent to allow you to recreate anything that you can draw in a VB program without needing the bitmap. Images can also be moved around, and there are fewer transparency issues.This is only a demo. It does not generate code. This seems to now be a finished program. I don't see what else there is that can easily be added. And I've already moved on to other projects. At some point, I may start selling the full version, but there aren't any plans of doing anything like that right now.- new icon- eyedropper "shape"- improved help file- place in system tray- paste image from clipboard using -pastehttp://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&batch_id=dVlvK3BEMGNlM1IzZUE9PQPhillip Sassano(author)   
  I'll ask the two obvious tough questions:1) Why is generating Visual Basic code that redraws the image "better" than working with normal graphics file formats?For the uses where code is preferred, a standalone converter that can operate on any source image appears simpler and more generally useful.2) What does your program do well enough to compete with established image editors? How is it specialized or unusual enough to be useful to someone already using, say, GIMP and Paint.net and mtPaint (just to stop at freeware and open source competition)?   ;Quote:Original post by LorenzoGattiI'll ask the two obvious tough questions:1) Why is generating Visual Basic code that redraws the image "better" than working with normal graphics file formats?For the uses where code is preferred, a standalone converter that can operate on any source image appears simpler and more generally useful.Lorenzo, I don't really know if it is or not.  End-users will have to make that decision.  I don't make decisions for other people. 2) What does your program do well enough to compete with established image editors? How is it specialized or unusual enough to be useful to someone already using, say, GIMP and Paint.net and mtPaint (just to stop at freeware and open source competition)?Again, I don't have any answers for you.  Users decide these things.  It is up to me to write software (strictly a personal choice). It is not up to me to judge or rate the software thtat I write. If it's no good, it's no good. Users will form their own conclusions (and they will.);  Here is another vb sample created with Torrent.  You are encouraged to use this and build upon it.  It's basically an early prototype of a galaxian genre game.  There's no sound effects yet, and nobody is shooting; but it's still pretty cool.  This only took me about a full day's work. Run this at 640x480. You may have to slow it down a little depending on your computer speed.http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&batch_id=dVlwWWVzTkxIcWVGa1E9PQ   