amuzen: It is cool that you solved the issue for yourself. I find my HTML approach more comfortable for me, as my image editor will keep window focus when I use it.
Julius {l Wrote}:http://www.aseprite.org/
this has a feature called "Tiled drawing mode to draw patterns and textures" but I have not tested it.
This
sounds awesome but I wasn't able to find that function. I only found a "tiled preview" (F8) that fills the window with the tile (and hides it after the next mouseclick/keypress). This is not bad, but I would prefer having a separate preview, so I could make changes while looking at the tiled preview. Also, the preview has the same zoom level, which I use during editing, so I have to make another keypress.
Thanks for the link though, I don't remember seeing/trying this editor. It has a nice style and provides a lovely GUI-less drawing mode.
I searched a little and (re-)found
Tile Studio (Win only). It does have a tiled preview:
I very much dislike using Wine, but so far this software seems to provide the best solution.
Pixen (Mac only) seems to have a tiled preview (don't know if it interfers with editing or not):
Pixen's tile view allows you to check out your seams in realtime—without limiting your editing abilities in any way.
But as I said, Mac only
JDraw has a preview area next to the editing area but no tiled preview functionality.
Conclusion: request linux ports of Tile Studio and Pixen (probably tons of work), request a draw-in-tiled-preview-mode-mode in ASE, request tiled preview for JDraw (this might be actually easy to do!
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