Fixin’ for a Pixen
Posted by Zach at July 3rd, 2008
I bought a Wacom tablet for a project where I’m drawing pixel art. I love the tablet, but the pixel editors available for OS X seem a tad undercooked.
Pixen is poised to become the reigning champ. It supports layers, tablet pressure, and animation. But Pixen had a bug that interrupted my creative flow — if I tapped a palette color using the tablet, it would always highlight the color, but usually fail to apply the color. What the…?!
Fortunately, the developers left the source code lying around. I had almost zero Cocoa experience before opening the source, yet the code was well-organized, and I was able to fix the bug!

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