Create a Paint program!

Question

Introduction

One day, you were showing your kid how to draw on a computer. You type mspaint.exe in the run bar. To your horror, it says "No items match your search". You must create a simple version of paint so your kid can draw!

Challenge

You must create a simple drawing program. To do this, open a white display window (larger than 99x99 pixels). Anytime the mouse is pressed down, change the pixel that the mouse is on to black.

This is code-golf, so shortest answer in bytes wins!

Answer 1

8086 machine code, 32 31 28 26 bytes

00000000  b8 0f 00 cd 10 b8 02 10  ba 18 01 cd 10 b8 03 00  |................|
00000010  cd 33 4b b8 01 0c eb f3  3f 00                    |.3K.....?.|
0000001a

Assumes the presence of a VGA graphics card, and any Microsoft-compatible mouse driver.

-2 bytes thanks to @berendi!

How it works:

            |   org 0x100
            |   use16
b8 0f 00    |       mov ax, 0x000f      ; set screen mode: 640x350 monochrome
cd 10       |       int 0x10            ; call video bios
b8 02 10    |       mov ax, 0x1002      ; set palette
ba 18 01    |       mov dx, palette     ; pointer to palette data
cd 10       |   @@: int 0x10            ; call video bios
b8 03 00    |       mov ax, 0x0003      ; get mouse position in (CX, DX) and button status in BL
cd 33       |       int 0x33            ; call mouse driver
4b          |       dec bx              ; if no buttons pressed, --BX = 0xFFFF (invalid page)
b8 01 0c    |       mov ax, 0x0c01      ; plot pixel with color AL at (CX, DX) in page BH
eb f3       |       jmp @b              ; repeat
3f 00       |   palette db 0x3f, 0x00   ; palette in 2:2:2 rgb. color 0 = white, 1 = black.
            |                           ; this should be a 17-byte struct, but we only care about the first two colors here

That's all there is to it. No magic involved, just a few function calls.

Answer 2

Scratch, 10 Scratch bytes

Scratch was practically designed for things like this.

Try it online!

Answer 3

C + Win32, 209 200 195 178 159 bytes

• 2022 Update: Saved 19 bytes by removing #include <windows.h>.

short m[9];main(h){for(h=CreateWindowExA(0,"EDIT","",1<<28,0,0,199,199,0);GetMessageA(m,h,0,0);m[4]^513?DispatchMessageA(m):SetPixel(GetDC(h),m[12],m[13],0));}

Thanks, Cody and Quentin! I was hoping to get rid of the #include <windows.h> but this leads to all sort of errors. At least it is working correctly with multiple monitors...

Saved 17 bytes thanks to inspiration by @c--

Answer 4

HTML + JavaScript (ES6), 66 64 62 bytes

HTML

<canvas id=c>

JavaScript

onclick=e=>c.getContext`2d`.fillRect(e.x,e.y,1,1)

Saved 2 bytes thanks to Gustavo Rodrigues and 2 bytes from Shaggy.

onclick=e=>c.getContext`2d`.fillRect(e.x,e.y,1,1)

/* This css isn't needed for the program to work. */
*{margin: 0}
#c{border:1px solid black}

<canvas id=c>

Answer 5

Processing, 98 79 bytes

19 bytes saved thanks to @dzaima

void setup(){background(-1);}void draw(){if(mousePressed)point(mouseX,mouseY);}

Explanation (outdated)

void setup() {
  size(100,100);            // size of the sketch
  background(-1);           // set the background to white
                            // 1 byte shorter than background(255);
}

void draw(){}               // required for mousePressed to work

void mousePressed() {       // function that is called whenever the mouse is pressed
  point(mouseX, mouseY);    // draw a point at the mouse's coordinates
                            // the colour is set to black as default
}

Answer 6

JavaScript ES6, 126 bytes

Tested in chrome.

onclick=e=>document.body.outerHTML+=`<a style=position:fixed;top:${e.y}px;left:${e.x}px;width:1px;height:1px;background:#000>`

Try it online!

onclick=e=>document.body.outerHTML+=`<a style=position:fixed;top:${e.y}px;left:${e.x}px;width:1px;height:1px;background:#000>`

Answer 7

Haskell, 189 184 170 169 bytes

import Graphics.Gloss.Interface.Pure.Game
main=play FullScreen white 9[]Pictures(#)(\_->id)
EventKey(MouseButton LeftButton)Down _(x,y)#l=Translate x y(Circle 1):l
_#l=l

This uses the Gloss library (v1.11). It opens a full screen window and paints black pixels (in fact circles with radius 1) by pressing the left mouse button. Press ESC to exit.

How it works:

play                 -- handles the whole event handling, screen update, etc. process
    FullScreen       -- use a full screen window
    white            -- use a white background
    9                -- 9 simulation steps per second (see simulation handler below)
    []               -- the initial world state, an emtpy list of circles
    Pictures         -- a function to turn the world state into a picture.
                     -- The world state is a list of translated circles and
                     -- "Pictures" turns this list into a single picture
    (#)              -- event handler, see below
    (\_->id)         -- simulation step handler. Ignore time tick and return the
                     -- world state unchanged. More readable: "\tick world -> world"

EventKey ... # l=... -- if the left mouse button is pressed, add a circle with
                     -- radius 1 translated to the current position of the mouse
                     -- to the world state
_#l=l                -- on all other events do nothing

Edit: @ceased to turn counterclockwis told me about the newst version of gloss which saves 5 bytes when using full screen windows. Thanks!

Answer 8

SmileBASIC 2, 52 51 bytes

This one runs in SmileBASIC's daddy, Petit Computer (and is one two byte shorter.)

PNLTYPE"OFF
GPAGE 1GCLS 15@A
GPSET TCHX,TCHY
GOTO@A

Explanation:

PNLTYPE"OFF       'turn off keyboard
GPAGE 1           'set graphics to lower screen
GCLS 15           'clear with color 15 (white)
@A                'loop begin
GPSET TCHX,TCHY   'set black pixel at draw location
GOTO@A            'loop

Answer 9

Javascript + jQuery 138 bytes

d=$(document.body).click((e)=>d.append("<div style='background:black;width:5;height:5;position:fixed;top:"+e.pageY+";left:"+e.pageX+"'>"))

Check it out online!

Adding click and drag support would be simple, you'd set a variable, however, per the instructions and to shorten code, it is not supported, "Anytime the mouse is pressed down, change the pixel that the mouse is on to black". I interpretted the instruction as a click event.

Answer 10

SpecBAS - 61 59 bytes

1 CLS 15 
2 IF MOUSEBTN=1 THEN PLOT MOUSEx,MOUSEy
3 GO TO 2

Black is already the default pen colour, but the background is usually a nasty shade of grey, so CLS 15 sets it to bright white.

Answer 11

SmileBASIC, 70 58 53 Bytes

XSCREEN 4GCLS-1@L
TOUCH OUT,X,Y
GPSET X,Y+240,0GOTO@L

Explained:

XSCREEN 4 'display one graphics page on both screens
GCLS -1 'fill screen with white
@L 'loop
TOUCH OUT,X,Y 'get touch location
GPSET X,Y+240,0 'draw black pixel at touch position, offset by the height of the top screen.
GOTO @L 'loop

Answer 12

Clojure, 91 71 bytes

-20 bytes thanks to @cfrick for pointing out that I can use use to shrink my importing.

(use 'quil.core)(defsketch P :mouse-dragged #(point(mouse-x)(mouse-y)))

Uses the Quil library. Draws a dot whenever the mouse is dragged.

Basically the Processing answer, since Quil is a Processing wrapper for Clojure.

(q/defsketch P ; Start a new drawing
             
             :mouse-dragged ; Attach a mouse drag listener
             ; that draws a point at the current mouse location
             #(q/point (q/mouse-x) (q/mouse-y))) 

Answer 13

Excel VBA, 62 Bytes

Anonymous VBE immediate window function that allows the user to draw on the any sheet by simply selecting it

Cells.RowHeight=48:Do:DoEvents:Selection.Interior.Color=0:Loop

Sample Output

Answer 14

Tcl/Tk, 45 46 51 57

gri [can .c]
bind . <1> {.c cr o %x %y %x %y}

Answer 15

Java 7, 353 bytes

import java.awt.*;import java.awt.event.*;class M{static int x,y;public static void main(String[]a){Frame f=new Frame(){public void paint(Graphics g){g.drawLine(x,y,x,y);}};f.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter(){public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e){x=e.getX();y=e.getY();f.repaint(x,y,1,1);}});f.setBackground(Color.WHITE);f.resize(500,500);f.show();}}

Ungolfed:

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

class M {
    //store the last point
    static int x, y;
    public static void main(String[] a) {
        Frame f = new Frame() {
            @Override
            public void paint(Graphics g) {
                g.drawLine(x, y, x, y);
            }
        }
        f.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
            @Override
            public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
                x = e.getX();
                y = e.getY();
                //repaint only the "new pixel"
                f.repaint(x, y, 1, 1);
            }
        });
        //default background is grey
        f.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
        f.resize(500, 500);
        f.show();
    }
}

Answer 16

TI-Basic, 1 byte

Pt-Change(

I'm sure that most of you with TI calcs thought of the Pen command, but it turns out that it's not tokenized so it would make most sense to count that as 3 bytes. You can read about the interactive version of Pt-Change( at http://tibasicdev.wikidot.com/pt-change

Answer 17

Python2 and Python3, 82 bytes (or 77?)

from turtle import *;up();onscreenclick(lambda x,y: goto(x,y)or dot(1));mainloop()

Using the Turtle module, this isn't too bad :)

Ungolfed:

import turtle
turtle.up()

def fun(x, y):
    turtle.goto(x,y)
    turtle.dot(1)

turtle.onscreenclick(fun)
turtle.mainloop()

If it's OK to have lines between the dots, you can actually save 5 bytes:

from turtle import *;onscreenclick(lambda x,y: goto(x,y)or dot(1));mainloop()

Answer 18

Lua (love2d Framework), 180 bytes

golfed version

l=love v,g,m,p=255,l.graphics,l.mouse,{}d=m.isDown function l.draw()g.setBackgroundColor(v,v,v)if d(1)or d(2)then p[#p+1],p[#p+2]=m.getPosition()end g.setColor(0,0,0)g.points(p)end

ungolfed

l=love 
v,g,m,p=255,l.graphics,l.mouse,{}
d=m.isDown 
function l.draw()
  g.setBackgroundColor(v,v,v)
  if d(1)or d(2)then 
    p[#p+1],p[#p+2]=m.getPosition()
  end 
  g.setColor(0,0,0)
  g.points(p)
end

quite easy how it works. First a few initialisations to make things shorter. After it it will check the mous is clicked and saves the points to the array. After that it draws the points.Also it sets the color to white& black cause default is the other way around :)
And here comes the picture:

Answer 19

HTML + Javascript, 152 148 bytes

<body onclick="document.body.innerHTML+='<x style=position:fixed;width:1;height:1;left:'+event.clientX+';top:'+event.clientY+';background:#000;>'"/>

Answer 20

Turing, 77 bytes

var x,y,b:int loop mousewhere(x,y,b)if b=1then drawdot(x,y,1)end if end loop

Ungolfed:

var x,y,b : int      
loop
  mousewhere(x,y,b)  % Set (x,y) to mouse co-ords, and b to 1 or 0 indicating if the button is pressed
  if b=1 then
    drawdot(x,y,1)  % Draw a black pixel at (x,y)
  end if
end loop

Answer 21

HTML + CSS + JavaScript (ES6), 8 + 31 + 64 = 103 bytes

Fun with CSS box-shadow!

s='0 0 0',onclick=e=>p.style.boxShadow=s+=`,${e.x}px ${e.y}px 0`

*{margin:0;width:1px;height:1px

<p id=p>

HTML + CSS + JavaScript (ES6), 8 + 22 + 69 = 99 bytes

This one attempts to offset the default margin of the <body> element, but it may be different across browsers and user agent stylesheets. Tested successfully in Chrome.

s='0 0 0',onclick=e=>p.style.boxShadow=s+=`,${e.x-8}px ${e.y-16}px 0`

*{width:1px;height:1px

<p id=p>

HTML + CSS + JavaScript (ES6), 8 + 18 + 69 = 95 bytes

Pixels in this one may appear bigger as they are drawn at half-pixel coordinates.

s='0 0 0',onclick=e=>p.style.boxShadow=s+=`,${e.x}px ${e.y}px 0 .5px`

*{margin:0;width:0

<p id=p>

Answer 22

Processing, 65 bytes

void draw(){if(mousePressed)line(mouseX,mouseY,pmouseX,pmouseY);}

Answer 23

glslsandbox 232 bytes

Old post but found this interesting.
Since processing already been done I decided to do something different.

This draws whether the mouse is pressed or not, so not what pydude asked for but almost.

#ifdef GL_ES
precision lowp float;
#endif
uniform float time;uniform vec2 mouse,resolution;uniform sampler2D t;void main(){vec2 f=gl_FragCoord.xy,r=resolution;gl_FragColor=vec4(time<2.||length(f-mouse*r)>2.&&texture2D(t,f/r).x>.1);}

Try it on glslsandbox

Answer 24

Google Sheets + Apps Script, 61 bytes

function onSelectionChange(e){e.range.setBackground('black')}

Runs automatically on a simple trigger. Bonus: variable pixel size.

Answer 25

Processing, 93 bytes, 91 bytes if spaces don't count

void setup(){size(100,100);background(-1);}void draw(){if(mousePressed) point(mouseX,mouseY);}

Answer 26

UCBlogo with wxWidgets, 65 bytes

setbg 7
setpc 0
ht
pu
make "buttonact[setpos clickpos pd fd 1 pu]

Explanation (the code assigned to the variable buttonact is executed on each button click):

SetBackground 7 ; white
SetPenColor 0 ; black
HideTurtle
PenUp
make "buttonact [
  SetPos ClickPos
  PenDown
  Forward 1
  PenUp
]

At least, I think this works. It should according to the documentation, but apparently the buttonact variable only works in a wxWidgets build and I'm struggling to build UCBLogo with wxWidgets on a modern Linux (waddyamean you can't cast a pointer to int and back?).

UCBlogo without wxWidgets, 73 bytes

To see the intended effect, you can run this longer version with an infinite loop.

setbg 7 setpc 0 ht pu
while[1=1][setpos mousepos if[button?][pd] fd 1 pu]

But this crashes ucblogo on my machine... Looks like a race condition.

UCBlogo, actually working on my machine, 80 bytes

setbg 7 setpc 0 ht pu
while[1=1][setpos mousepos if[button?][pd] fd 1 pu wait 1]

Answer 27

APL (dzaima/APL), 37 bytes

P5.draw←{P5.Lm.p:P5.G.pt P5.mx P5.my}

Try it online!

Machine code is OP.