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- KidsPaint
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- Writen By
- Paul Dodd
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- Graphics By
- Paul Dodd
- Andrew Fairhurst
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- Writen in
- AMOS
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- KidsPaint (c)1992 Paul Dodd
-
- Introduction.
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- KidsPaint is a childrens paint program designed to
- be used by children of almost all ages. With Younger
- children it would be safe to have someone older to watch over
- them.
-
- Loading.
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- Load KidsPaint either buy double clicking on its icon
- with the left mouse button.
-
- When I last tested it KidsPaint worked fine on a 512k
- Amiga.
-
- When loading, KidsPaint will remind you that this
- program is shareware. KidsPaint will then show you a title
- screen, at which you can either press a key or press the left
- mouse button to continue.
-
- When is the program if you press the help key you
- will get a crude help screen up.
-
- Down the right hand side there are eight paint
- tubes, by clicking on them you can change the colour with
- which you draw. The colour curently selected is the tube
- with the top off and the splurge of paint coming from it.
-
- At the top of the screen there is a number of
- icons. The four to the right are the drawing tools.
-
- These include:-
- 1. The Paint Brush.
- 2. The Pattern Line.
- 3. The Cycle Brush.
- 4. The Freehand Brush.
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- By clicking on each one you can change between them.
- At the top left of the screen there is an icon which will
- clear the screen, and just to the left of it there is a
- picture of three disks.
-
- The first one with the arrow pointing away from the
- disk is the Load icon. The next with the arrow pointing into
- the disk is the Save icon. The last one with a cross is the
- delete icon.
-
- You will notice also on the top there are a number
- of different shapes. These are for you to draw with using
- the Freehand Brush. The one with the box around is the one
- which is currently selected.
-
- Pressing the Del key will undo what you have drew in
- your current mode.
-
- Clear
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- Clicking on this will bring up a requestor asking
- you if you want to clear the screen. Click on Yes if you do
- and click on No if you dont.
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- Load, Save and Delete
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- After you click on one of these icons you will get
- full instuctions on the screen. The pictures are saved in
- IFF format so you can load them into most Art Packages if
- you want to print them or alter them.
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- The Paint Brush
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-
- As soon as you click on this a box will apear
- around it showing you that you are in Paint mode. You can
- fill enclosed areas of the screen with this in the colour
- that is curently selected.
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- The Pattern Line
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- When you click on this, a box will apear around it.
- What ever you draw on the screen will get repeated 7 Times
- making a symetrical pattern.
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- The Cycle Brush
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- A box will again apear around this when its
- selected. When you draw on the screen the colours rotate and
- you get very pretty results.
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- The Freehand Brush
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-
- You can select this either by clicking on its icon
- or by clicking on one of the brushes just to the right of the
- delete icon. You can change the brush you are drawing with
- by simply clicking on another one. You draw in the colour
- which is curently selected.
-
- The PullDown Menu
- -----------------
-
- By holding down the right mouse button and moving
- to the top left of the screen you can activate the pull down
- menu. Keep the right mouse button held down until you are
- over the selection which you want then let go.
-
- Save a screen
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-
- This is for use if you want too save the whole
- screen including the icons onto the disk. You shouldn't
- really nead to use this.
-
- Sound (Voice/Beeps/off)
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- With this you can switch between what type of sounds
- you want.
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- Voice : The Default
- Beeps : Crude beeps
- Off : This will speed KidsPaint up Alot.
-
- Delete a file
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-
- This does exactly the same as the delete icon.
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- About
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-
- This tells you a bit about the program and me.
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- Quit
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-
- This will quit you from KidsPaint. You can also
- quit by holding down <ctrl> and <c>.
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- KidsPaint is shareware. If you like it or use it alot
- then please send a poor student preparing for his G.C.S.E`s
- 5 pounds.
-
- If you have any Questions or Comments or you want to
- write to me for any other reason here is my address:
-
- Paul Dodd,
-
- Hillside,
- Odstock,
- Salisbury,
- Wilts.
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- SP5 4JE.
-
- Or phone me after 4 o'clock on (0722) 329746
-
- If I do another version of KidsPaint I will have
- sampled voices instead of the computer voice. The Two mini
- bugs will be fixed and it may have a text feature availible.
-
- Thanks to Andrew Fairhust for drawing the Paint
- Tubes. (Hello Andrew if your reading this)
-