Since https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite went proprietary on Aug 26th, 2016 (https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/commit/5ecc356a41c8e29977f8608d8826489d24f5fa6c), this fork and corresponding GitHub organization were created to preserve the last GPLv2 version of the code.

Our reasons for doing so are multiple and likely different for all fork initiators, but a strong belief in free software is definitely to name, and as the GPLv2 license allows us to, we want to safeguard this nice open source piece of software.

Development intent

We now have to discuss our plans for the future. There are several possibilities:

• Continue the development in parallel to the proprietary upstream version (i.e. effectively become a competitive upstream)
• Do minimal maintenance of the project, merging good PRs and doing some simple bug fixes here and there but no strong development
• Keep the repository as a more or less read-only archive of the code as it was before going proprietary, so that other interested parties can build it for themselves, for distribution, or fork it to continue development as a new upstream

Providing binaries

In parallel to this, we have the possibility to set up a small website where we would provide binaries for Linux, Mac OSX and Windows of the latest stable release and likely of the current master HEAD. These would be useful for people who prefer to use the libre version over the proprietary one but can't/don't want to build from source.

We can also choose not to do so, this is up for discussion. Of course, the GPLv2 allows us to distribute such binaries.

Branding

Depending on the decisions for the above points, we might end up being disliked by the original author and developer of the now proprietary version. I see no trademark policy so far, but it might come to a point where we need to rebrand this fork to avoid confusion and unnecessary friction.

If a new name is needed, it should be discussed in a new issue, please don't post alternative name suggestions on this topic.

Regardless of a potential name change, if we decide to further develop or at least maintain this fork, the various links and statements in the documentation files will have to be changed, to avoid having e.g. people reporting our own bugs to the proprietary upstream repo.

I already removed the EULA of the original developer, as it applied to his repository and not to the GPLv2 code itself. We obviously don't want to keep its terms which are unnecessary for a GPLv2 project.

Hello, I am Mint Studios. I enjoy open source projects like Godot. I would like to become the maintainer of this project.

My first act as a maintainer would be making a proper website, and make compiling this much, much easier. Adding new features is not in my plan. Yet.

I hope this happens.

@Calinou @akien-mga

Seems to me, y'all were the last people to maintain this project.

As #1 suggested, this is an issue to discuss a new name for the program. I think it would be good to rename sooner than later.

Just random ideas:

• beesprite (instead of a-sprite), B following the letter A
• deusprite (instead of ace-sprite), 2 following the playing card Ace

Or something completely original and new maybe.

Attention MacOS users. As of right now, LibreSprite can't be compiled on a Mac. I think the trouble is at compiling skia. I do not have a Mac, so I am unable to try it for myself. If you have a Mac, please try to compile LibreSprite. The instructions are no longer on GitHub, but can be found right here. If you get it working, please create an issue on GitHub describing your workaround. I know GitHub issues isn't an ideal place for this, but I would like it to be here. A MacOS build is critical for our first release. The date of the release is heavily dependent on the MacOS build.

Hi, Today I tried libresprite and immediately found a problem. The preview window started fricking out and made kind of the ghost version of it were ever I moved the mouse. But, it did not stop after stopping the mouse. The cursor started to flicker and and the software started lagging

• https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppImage

Cast @probonopd

RELATED

• https://github.com/LibreSprite/LibreSprite/issues/17

I've created a small web page at https://LibreSprite.github.io that has a button for a windows installer. I'm not very good at making cool-looking websites, so I've just created a repo for the website, and people can improve it.

Describe your bug report or feature request here Use Dark Theme breaks the program, even after reinstalling

LibreSprite and System version

• LibreSprite Current stable version:
• System Windows 7 and windows 10:

Remove the Steam API, webserver, automatic updater, news listbox, and trial version. This also removes a dependency on curl.

Also use shared libraries where possible.

The original Aseprite never cared about doing this because the author wanted you to buy their pre-built binaries, but for those of us that want to build from source, it's currently not easy. The release tarballs available on GitHub are simply generated from git tags. Since the repository has many submodules, the tarball is missing all of that code. So, the user must do a recursive clone of the repo and checkout the tag they want to build from. It would be great if this free software friendly fork could upload complete source releases that users can just unpack and build.

Hi, so the main page of libresprite is full of non-related stuff and the bad thing is, the page is being edited frequently. You can see that the last edit was jan 1 2021. So, I think it is a bot that is doing this and this has to be stopped.

• Disables V8 pointer compression when the system v8 library has disabled pointer compression (fixes #383).

How to test

• [x] Build on Debian and verify running a JS script does not crash (works on Debian/bookworm).
• [x] Build on Fedora and verify running a JS script does not crash (works on Fedora 37). Using this Dockerfile:

FROM fedora:37

RUN echo "assumeyes=True" >> /etc/dnf/dnf.conf 
RUN dnf install g++ cmake libcurl-devel freetype-devel giflib-devel gtest-devel libjpeg-devel lua-devel pixman-devel libpng-devel SDL2-devel SDL2_image-devel tinyxml-devel zlib-devel ninja-build nodejs-devel
RUN dnf install git

RUN mkdir /app
RUN mkdir /src
WORKDIR /src
RUN git clone --recursive --branch detect-pointer-compression https://github.com/dvogel/LibreSprite.git
RUN mkdir /src/LibreSprite/build
WORKDIR /src/LibreSprite/build
RUN cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/app -DV8_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/node -DV8_LIBRARY=/usr/lib64/libv8.so.10 -DV8_LIBBASE_LIBRARY=/usr/lib64/libv8_libbase.so.10 -DV8_LIBPLATFORM_LIBRARY=/usr/lib64/libv8_libplatform.so.10 -G Ninja ..
RUN ninja libresprite
RUN ninja install

ENV USER libresprite-runner
ENV HOME /home
RUN mkdir -p /home/.config/libresprite/scripts/
RUN touch /home/.config/libresprite/scripts/DoNothing.js
WORKDIR /home

ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/bash"]

This command works with this branch but crashes (as in #383) when built with the master branch:

docker run --rm -it -e uid="$(id -u)" -e gid="$(id -g)" libresprite-test -c '/app/bin/libresprite --batch --script /home/.config/libresprite/scripts/DoNothing.js'

• [ ] Regression testing on other platforms to ensure pointer compression is still enabled there. @felipemanga it sounded on #383 like you knew of some linux distros that enabled pointer compression on 64-bit platforms. Mind pointing me toward one for testing? I found an issue for nodejs where the TSC decided against making pointer compression the default for the v8 library they ship.

LibreSprite version

Built with default options from commit ed8d6ce6cb32d574905b724ef4959d05ac42102b

Describe the bug

Running an empty JS script crashes the app.

To Reproduce

• touch ~/.config/libresprite/scripts/DoNothing.js
• libresprite
• Select DoNothing.js from the script menu.
• In terminal see crash report:

Reading file /home/dvogel/.config/libresprite/scripts/DoNothing.js


#
# Fatal error in , line 0
# Embedder-vs-V8 build configuration mismatch. On embedder side pointer compression is ENABLED while on V8 side it's DISABLED.
#
#
#
#FailureMessage Object: 0x7ffc8c16d050
==== C stack trace ===============================

    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnode.so.108(v8::base::debug::StackTrace::StackTrace()+0x16) [0x7f8c764b02b6]
    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnode.so.108(+0xd4309c) [0x7f8c75b6609c]
    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnode.so.108(V8_Fatal(char const*, ...)+0x167) [0x7f8c764a1117]
    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnode.so.108(v8::V8::Initialize(int)+0x43) [0x7f8c75b8c8a3]
    libresprite(+0x31a463) [0x5620fe16a463]
    libresprite(+0x31c4d2) [0x5620fe16c4d2]
    libresprite(+0x31c8bb) [0x5620fe16c8bb]
    libresprite(+0x18f538) [0x5620fdfdf538]
    libresprite(+0x18f800) [0x5620fdfdf800]
    libresprite(+0x18ff5f) [0x5620fdfdff5f]
    libresprite(+0x1223c2) [0x5620fdf723c2]
    libresprite(+0x147cfa) [0x5620fdf97cfa]
    libresprite(+0x1e3ef4) [0x5620fe033ef4]
    libresprite(+0x37f1e7) [0x5620fe1cf1e7]
    libresprite(+0x35f94d) [0x5620fe1af94d]
    libresprite(+0x3771b1) [0x5620fe1c71b1]
    libresprite(+0x3773e9) [0x5620fe1c73e9]
    libresprite(+0x37fa8a) [0x5620fe1cfa8a]
    libresprite(+0x375d10) [0x5620fe1c5d10]
    libresprite(+0xa3e03) [0x5620fdef3e03]
    libresprite(+0xa231b) [0x5620fdef231b]
    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x2718a) [0x7f8c7496518a]
    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0x85) [0x7f8c74965245]
    libresprite(+0xa2181) [0x5620fdef2181]
Aborted

This also happens for a script containing var x = 1; or seemingly any other innocuous statement.

Expected behaviour

Should report the error to the user and avoid crashing the app.

OS/Hardware

• Operative System: Debian/testing
• CPU: AMD

Linked as such:

	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc246c3000)
	libcurl-gnutls.so.4 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl-gnutls.so.4 (0x00007f43c568f000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f43c55b0000)
	libxcb.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f43c5586000)
	libSDL2-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f43c53c0000)
	libSDL2_image-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2_image-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f43c53a1000)
	libpixman-1.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpixman-1.so.0 (0x00007f43c52f4000)
	libtinyxml.so.2.6.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinyxml.so.2.6.2 (0x00007f43c52dc000)
	libjpeg.so.62 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.62 (0x00007f43c5249000)
	libgif.so.7 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgif.so.7 (0x00007f43c523e000)
	libpng16.so.16 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16 (0x00007f43c5208000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f43c51e9000)
	liblua5.4.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.4.so.0 (0x00007f43c51a5000)
	libnode.so.108 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnode.so.108 (0x00007f43c25f8000)
	libfreetype.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007f43c252e000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f43c2314000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f43c22f4000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f43c2113000)
	libnghttp2.so.14 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnghttp2.so.14 (0x00007f43c20e2000)
	libidn2.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libidn2.so.0 (0x00007f43c20b1000)
	librtmp.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librtmp.so.1 (0x00007f43c2092000)
	libssh2.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssh2.so.1 (0x00007f43c2051000)
	libpsl.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpsl.so.5 (0x00007f43c203d000)
	libnettle.so.8 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnettle.so.8 (0x00007f43c1fef000)
	libgnutls.so.30 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30 (0x00007f43c1dd2000)
	libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x00007f43c1d80000)
	libldap-2.5.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libldap-2.5.so.0 (0x00007f43c1d21000)
	liblber-2.5.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblber-2.5.so.0 (0x00007f43c1d11000)
	libzstd.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007f43c1c58000)
	libbrotlidec.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbrotlidec.so.1 (0x00007f43c1c4b000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f43c5c37000)
	libXau.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f43c1c44000)
	libXdmcp.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007f43c1a00000)
	libasound.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2 (0x00007f43c18fa000)
	libpulse.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpulse.so.0 (0x00007f43c18a6000)
	libsamplerate.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsamplerate.so.0 (0x00007f43c1738000)
	libX11.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f43c15f6000)
	libXext.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXext.so.6 (0x00007f43c1c2d000)
	libXcursor.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXcursor.so.1 (0x00007f43c1c20000)
	libXi.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXi.so.6 (0x00007f43c1c0c000)
	libXfixes.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXfixes.so.3 (0x00007f43c15ee000)
	libXrandr.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrandr.so.2 (0x00007f43c15e1000)
	libXss.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXss.so.1 (0x00007f43c15dc000)
	libdrm.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm.so.2 (0x00007f43c15c6000)
	libgbm.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgbm.so.1 (0x00007f43c15b5000)
	libwayland-egl.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-egl.so.1 (0x00007f43c15b0000)
	libwayland-client.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-client.so.0 (0x00007f43c159e000)
	libwayland-cursor.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-cursor.so.0 (0x00007f43c1594000)
	libxkbcommon.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxkbcommon.so.0 (0x00007f43c154d000)
	libdecor-0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdecor-0.so.0 (0x00007f43c1542000)
	libtiff.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.5 (0x00007f43c14b6000)
	libwebp.so.7 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebp.so.7 (0x00007f43c1445000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f43c1440000)
	libuv.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuv.so.1 (0x00007f43c140f000)
	libbrotlienc.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbrotlienc.so.1 (0x00007f43c137e000)
	libcares.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcares.so.2 (0x00007f43c1367000)
	libcrypto.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.3 (0x00007f43c0ee8000)
	libssl.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.3 (0x00007f43c0e3f000)
	libicui18n.so.72 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicui18n.so.72 (0x00007f43c0b15000)
	libicuuc.so.72 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicuuc.so.72 (0x00007f43c0915000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f43c0910000)
	libunistring.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libunistring.so.2 (0x00007f43c0764000)
	libhogweed.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libhogweed.so.6 (0x00007f43c071b000)
	libgmp.so.10 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.10 (0x00007f43c069a000)
	libp11-kit.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libp11-kit.so.0 (0x00007f43c0563000)
	libtasn1.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtasn1.so.6 (0x00007f43c054d000)
	libkrb5.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkrb5.so.3 (0x00007f43c0473000)
	libk5crypto.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libk5crypto.so.3 (0x00007f43c0446000)
	libcom_err.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcom_err.so.2 (0x00007f43c0440000)
	libkrb5support.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkrb5support.so.0 (0x00007f43c0432000)
	libsasl2.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsasl2.so.2 (0x00007f43c0413000)
	libbrotlicommon.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbrotlicommon.so.1 (0x00007f43c03f0000)
	libbsd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 (0x00007f43c03d9000)
	libpulsecommon-16.1.so => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-16.1.so (0x00007f43c0353000)
	libdbus-1.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3 (0x00007f43c02fd000)
	libXrender.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1 (0x00007f43c02ee000)
	libwayland-server.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-server.so.0 (0x00007f43c02d8000)
	libexpat.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007f43c02ad000)
	libffi.so.8 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.8 (0x00007f43c02a0000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f43c0278000)
	libLerc.so.4 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLerc.so.4 (0x00007f43c01de000)
	libjbig.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjbig.so.0 (0x00007f43bfe00000)
	libdeflate.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdeflate.so.0 (0x00007f43c01b7000)
	libicudata.so.72 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicudata.so.72 (0x00007f43be02e000)
	libkeyutils.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkeyutils.so.1 (0x00007f43c01b0000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f43c019d000)
	libmd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmd.so.0 (0x00007f43c0190000)
	libsndfile.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsndfile.so.1 (0x00007f43c010d000)
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	libasyncns.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasyncns.so.0 (0x00007f43c002f000)
	libFLAC.so.8 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libFLAC.so.8 (0x00007f43bdfef000)
	libvorbis.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvorbis.so.0 (0x00007f43bdfc2000)
	libvorbisenc.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvorbisenc.so.2 (0x00007f43bdf17000)
	libopus.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopus.so.0 (0x00007f43bdeba000)
	libogg.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libogg.so.0 (0x00007f43c0023000)
	libcap.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap.so.2 (0x00007f43c0018000)
	libgcrypt.so.20 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 (0x00007f43bdd73000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f43bdd4d000)
	libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 (0x00007f43bdd24000)

LibreSprite version

1.0

Describe the bug

Running libresprite with a file path as command line argument do not open the specified file.

To Reproduce

Run libresprite somesprite.ase.

Expected behaviour

The specified file should be opened.

OS/Hardware

• Operative System: Debian GNU/Linux 11
• CPU: amd64

LibreSprite version

v1.2-973d0e3d-SDL

Describe the bug

Numpad . (Del) key not recognized (NumLock off).

To Reproduce

Try mapping . Pad to Clear in Keyboard shortcuts.

Expected behaviour

Use any Del key on the keyboard to clear.

OS/Hardware

• Operative System: Win 10, 64 bit
• CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz
• GPU:

Screenshots

Additional context

LibreSprite version

v1.0-dev ( downloaded from https://github.com/LibreSprite/LibreSprite/releases/download/v1.0/libresprite-Linux-x86_64-Debian_10.AppImage ).

Describe the bug

*.gpl palette files stored in ~/.config/libresprite/palettes are not loaded.

To Reproduce

Copy a *.gpl palette in ~/.config/libresprite/palettes then run libresprite.

Expected behaviour

Palette should be added to available palettes.

OS/Hardware

• Operative System: Debian GNU/Linux 11
• CPU: x86_64