QPix

--- WIP, very incomplete ---

A simple little pixel art editor, using Qt Widgets. Focusing on performance and UI/UX.

Features

Note that since this is very incomplete, these features will likely change.

• Fast CPU-rasterized scrollable & zoomable canvas (works similar to Aseprite)
  • May change to being rendered fully on the GPU in the future but CPU works fine for now
• Featureful colour picker
  • Inspired by Java Swing's colour picker dialog
• Nice looking handcrafted UI (imo) with a lot of care taken to make it coherent

Building

You need Qt6 (I'm using Qt 6.6.2 but it should work on earlier versions), CMake >3.20, GNU Make and Ninja (latter two not necessarily required, see below).

You will also need a C++20 compliant compiler.

Using Helper Makefile

To build and run the release build using the simple helper Makefile, navigate to project directory and run:

make run-rls

You can also make the run-dbg rule to build and run the debug build.

The executable will be output as target/debug/qpix(.exe) or target/release/qpix(.exe) depending on version built.

With CMake Directly

To build the project using CMake directly (possibly removing dependency on GNU Make and/or Ninja), run:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake --cmake-options ..

...followed by the command to build the project using whichever generator you got passed to CMake (or default) which is probably either make or ninja.

The executable will be output as build/qpix(.exe).