Tux Paint update adds plug-in support
New Breed Software is proud to announce the release of version 0.9.18 of Tux Paint, the open source drawing program for children. New to this version, the "Magic" tools -- the special effects in Tux Paint, such as blur, smudge and grass -- have been removed from the core of Tux Paint and made into "plug-ins" which are loaded into Tux Paint when it is launched. An C-based API (application programming interface) has been developed and documented, allowing anyone to easily write new "Magic" tools for Tux Paint. One goal of this new capability is to turn Tux Paint into a platform for teaching computer graphics programming to novice programmers, such as high school students. Tux Paint 0.9.18 is available for download as source code, and as packages for Fedora Linux (Fedora CORE 2 through 6, and Fedora 7 and 8). Binaries for PowerPC-based Mac OS X systems, and Windows XP, 2000 and Vista are also available, with support Intel-based Macs and older Windows systems coming soon. |
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