I was thinking about just using the fstream C++ library to output to files. The program would load up a .8xv file and output a .txt file.

yeah, bu then you have to rewrite ALL the byte conversions.

eh, that's not so many. This way I have more control, plus, I have no idea what you said earlier, so yeah.

I'm experiencing some unexpected delays. Just know that it's coming along nicely and I'll get screenies/source up as soon as I feel like I'm ready.

Made all the text sprites today! Gosh, monospace fonts, what a pain...it's the best way, tho.

As for problems with Apps, are you using any variables that you made with something like this:
[0000]->GDB1Var
...
X->{GDB1Var}^r

Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_fill
I think the first one is what you would want. However, the best method I can think of would make heavy use of the stack, so an overflow error would be possible.

Make sure to keep automatic backups of code!

Speaking of backups, can it be possible to exit any time and still be able to continue working on a drawing without any saving? (This is NOT auto-saving, this is auto backup, like in MS Word where if you crash, all your work is saved.)

Also, will there be an option to export to TI-BASIC and Axe? (In particular, "optimized export" - drawing the image with as few commands as possible.)

UPDATE ish

So, this is basically done...all I need to do is a (pretty massive ) code reorganization so it's easier for me to add the last coupla features to the Paint portion of the program.

It's a really simple program, and if I get around to making a PaintPad 2, it will have the advanced features that were originally intended, like copy/paste, brush size, undo/redo, stuff like that.

The features in the text editor are:
Inputting text (duh)
99 lines of text
20 characters (I think - it's around there) per line
Saving/Loading
about seventy inputtable characters - A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and a bunch of symbols

The GUI for the text editor is actually pretty good. It looks nice and simple and should be fairly conducive to a productive environment.

The paint program features:
Drawing pixels
Mass Erase (erasing large portions of the screen, but can also erase individual pixels)
Lines
Rectangles
Circles
3-lvl gray
EDIT: Inverting screen colors, on both gray and black

There it is. The text editor is intended for people to be able to read and write on-calc readme files for their programs, and the Paint editor is intended to make it easy to make menus and possibly cutscenes for programs/games.

Oh, and the readme for PaintPad is all On-Calc you open up the README text file through PaintPad. (with a screenshot showing how to open files, and probably a really small computer readme file dictating how)

Oh yeah, I forgot to include that. Yes, there is.

Hmm...that wouldn't be too hard. Probably only multiples of 8*8 size sprites would be supported though. After the code reorg, I'll see what I can do