Paint bug!

[Travis King]

Believe it or not, I think I found a bug in Paint! When I copy and paste an
object into paint and when I use the transparent background for the object I
pasted, only part of the object shows up, but when I turn the solid
background on, the whole object appears. Anyone else have this issue? I'm
going to report it.

 

[Bruce Williams [MSFT]]

Paint has never handled transparency. Personally, I use Paint.NET when I
need transparent areas.

-Bruce

 

[Guest]

Can I actually just ask why Microsoft hasn't updated paint? You would think
with the competition cough*apple*cough*linux* they should at least update
paint to handle transparancy, layers, effects ect like Gimp or paint.NET

Just a point. and a good one me thinks!!! ;p

 

[Bruce Williams [MSFT]]

I'm no expert on the history of Paint, but my educated guess is that no-one
has been able or willing to stand up, say "this is important", and make it
stick.

-Bruce

P.S. Note that paint has been updated over the years, just not very
aggressively.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

It is a good point. Why don't you forward this through the Feedback link.
I imagine that the "sentiments" link would suffice. I don't think you need
to go through all the hoops in the MBC.

 

[Travis King]

And look at how much RAM Paint.NET eats over Paint. I can accomplish most
tasks with Paint much quicker and easier with less steps. Granted,
Paint.NET has a lot more features but I'd like Paint to stay. Maybe add
what Paint.NET has additionally but leave everything set up the way it is.
I also normally work with 4 to 5 paint documents at once, so I don't see how
Paint.NET is going to work for me. I can see how others might like
Paint.NET though, and I may even use Paint.NET on occasion, but not on a
routinely basis.