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- * Ultra Paint *
- Copyright 1988 by Steve Hines
-
- Version 1.00
-
- UltraPaint is Shareware! If you like it and use it, send me $15 and I
- will send you the latest version with IFF Save enabled! If you don't find Ultra
- Paint useful, please pass it along.
-
- Send Money, Bugs, Suggestions, and general correspondence to:
-
- Steve Hines
- 701 Paul Street
- Esondido, Ca.,
- 92027
-
- Credits::
-
- Thanks to RJ Mical for the great Palette tool and File Requester.
-
-
- And now, on with the show...
-
- Starting up::
-
- To start from Workbench:
- Set ToolTypes in the UltraPaint Icon (using the menu item
- 'info'). The format of entries is...
-
- h=(height)
- w=(width)
- d=(depth)
- p=(preset)
-
- These Options are explained below.
-
- To start from CLI:
- type [run] cdraw h(height) w(width) d(depth) [p(preset)]
-
- Options:
- Height is any number from 1 to 400 (automatically switched to
- interlace mode)
-
- Width is any number from 1 to 640 (automatically switched to
- hires)
-
- Depth is any number from 1 to 5 in LoRes, 1 to 4 in Med-HighRes
-
- Preset is an optional argument, from 1 to 4.
- 1. 320x200x5
- 2. 320x400x5
- 3. 640x200x4
- 4. 640x400x4
-
- The Color Window::
-
- The Color Window is the color selector window on the screen. Clicking
- on any of the little color boxes changes the current Foreground drawing
- color. The current Foreground color is in the big box on the left.
-
- The Menus::
-
- Project-
-
- About: Shareware info...
-
- Save: NOT enabled in this version...see above
-
- Load:
- 1. Picture: Load picture does just that, loads a picture.
- Brings up a file requester. This requester will
- list files in the big box on the left. Clicking
- the mouse anywhere outside this box and any
- other gadgets will stop the files from listing
- in the box. File selection is just like any
- other file requester. Next Disk flips to the
- next dos device mounted to the system.
-
- 2. Brush: Brings up the file requester mentioned above.
- You can select any IFF picture. If you are in
- freehand or airbrush mode (mentioned later),
- the brush will appear and follow your cursor.
- See Custom and Makebrush for details.
-
- Load Opts:
- 1. Clr on Load: This option allows to clear the screen when a
- Picture is loaded. This could be useful
- if you want to merge to 'half' pictures
- together.
-
- 2. Load to Spare: This option allows you to load a picture into
- the Spare screen (memory permitting).
-
- Undo: This will undo your LAST draw action (but will not undo an undo
- ) a 'draw action' is anything that would draw something ON the
- screen. This does NOT include something like 'grabbing' a brush
- or turning on/off crosshairs, etc...
-
- Spare:
- 1. Copy to spare:This copies the current screen to 'spare',
- allowing you to save a screen for later
- reference, or clip-art.
-
- 2. Swap spare: This swaps the current screen with the current
- one, making it the spare.
-
- Newpic: This erases the current picture.
-
- Quit: Quits the program, give you 'one last chance' before exiting.
-
- Mode-
-
- Freehand: This is the 'main' drawing mode in Ultra Paint. Brush size
- and shape only have effect on this and Airbrush mode. The
- brush, when in block or slash mode, draws from pointer
- position down. BkSlash draws from position up, and circle
- draws from centerpoint around.
-
- Sketch: Very fast draw mode. Will only draw single pixel lines. Meant
- for sketching drawing or ideas.
-
- Line: The basic Line mode. Will draw a line from here to there.
- This mode uses the Standard interface, which all Modes use
- from here on unless otherwise noted. Press and hold the
- 'Select' (Left) button on the mouse. When the mouse is moved
- the object (whatever is being drawn) follows the mouse.
- Releasing the Select button will drop the object.
-
- Ray: Will draw multiple lines from any fixed vertex to any other
- Point on the screen. This interface is a little different.
- First, to select a vertex, Click the Select button on the
- vertex point. To draw a 'ray' move the mouse, without the
- button pressed, to the endpoint. Press Select button, and the
- ray will be drawn. If the Select button is held down, and the
- mouse moved, multiple rays will be drawn to follow the mouse
- pointer until the Select button is released. To exit Ray and
- select another vertex, stop all movement of the mouse, and
- press the 'Menu' (Right) mouse button. While in Ray draw mode
- the color can be changed, and draw from the same point,
- without exiting.
-
- Box: Just the general box draw thingy. Uses the standard
- interface.
-
- Solid Box: When drawing the Solid box, a diagonal line will be draw
- across the box to denote that is is going to be solid. This
- was done for speed.
-
- Ellipse: It's just that, an ellipse.
-
- Solid Ellipse: Solid Ellipse.
-
- Polygon: To draw polygon, select a startpoint, and click the Select
- button there. Select as many lines as you want using the
- Select button. To exit, Either click the Menu button, or
- Click on the Startpoint.
-
- Solid Poly: To draw a solid poly, select a startpoint, and click the
- Select button. Select as many lines as you want using the
- Select button, but please no more that 120 lines... To exit,
- Click on the Startpoint and the shape will be filled.
-
- Fill: Very simple. Just click on the area to fill, and voila!
-
- Airbrush: Airbrush is very simple. Just press and hold the Select
- button. The area the size of the Airbrush (see below) will
- slowly be filled in with whatever brush is active. When the
- mouse is moved, the Airbrush will move with it.
-
- Airbrush size: This will bring up a requester asking for input. The
- current value will be displayed. Clicking on the window
- close gadget will cancel. Typing in a number and
- pressing return will change the Airbrush spray width.
-
- Zoom: To zoom, Click and hold the select button anywhere on the
- screen. A box will appear that is the size of the zoom area (
- see below). When the button is released, A window will appear
- on the left side of the screen with the area zoom in it. It
- may take several seconds for the area to fill the zoom
- window.
-
- Zoom Menus-
- Palette: Allows you to modify colors without exiting
- zoom mode. See below for instructions on this
- tool.
-
- Move: Will move the zoom window to the other side of
- screen.
-
- Grid: Will switch the grid on and off.
-
- Quit: Quits!
-
- Using Zoom: Click anywhere in the zoom window. A dot of the
- appropriate color will appear in the zoom and
- main window simultamiously. The crosshairs and
- coordinates will show the relative place on the
- screen from zoom.
-
- Zoom Config:
-
- Grid: Allows you to toggle Grid outside of zoom.
-
- Mag: Brings up requester. This number is the amount of pixels
- to be included in the zoom, and will be sized
- appropriately.
-
- Crosshairs: These follow the pointer around the screen. Useful for
- lining things up on the screen. Turn off in draw modes.
-
- Coordinates: Report the position of the pointer. This is updated in all
- draw modes.
-
- Tog Coords: Move the coordinated to opposite side of the screen. Gets
- them out of the way when drawing.
-
- Brush-
- Type: Pretty self explainatory, except..:
-
- Custom: If you have allready grabbed a brush and are in
- Airbrush or Freehand, the brush previously grabbed will
- become the current drawing tool.
-
- Make Custom: To grab custom, Click on the Top-Left edge of the
- brush, and move the mouse to the Bottom-Right and
- release the button. Brushes greater than 320
- across and 200 high are not allowed. If all goes
- well, the custom brush will be the new drawing
- tool. (If the brush size is a limitation, try
- using the spare screen.)
-
- Size: Again, self explainatory. 4 preset sizes are listed along with...
-
- Makesize: Brings up requester. This entry is the new diameter
- (for circle) or width & height (for all else) of the
- current brush Type.
-
- Brush: This menu is for custom brush only. The first 2 items do NOT
- require having a brush in 'hand', the rest do.
-
- Matte: When selected, the backround color is transparent.
-
- Corner: When Selected, the brush is handled in the top-left
- corner, otherwise, it is held in the middle.
-
- FlipX: Will flip your custom brush in the X direction.
-
- FlipY: Will flip your custom brush in the Y direction.
-
- The ghosted items are 'planned' brush functions.
-
- Stuff-
- Color:
- Palette: Brings up the palette modifier. The colors selected
- here ALSO change the drawing color. The sliders change
- the R, G, and B values. Clicking on the RGB on the
- lefthand side will change to and HSL scale (Hue,
- Saturation, Luminance). Clicking Cancel will undo ALL
- the colors that were changed. OK okays all changes
- made in the palette. After clicking Range, which will
- do a 'dither' effect between colors selected, The next
- 2 color selections you make will be the colors to
- 'range' between.
-
- Default: This will reset ALL colors to the ORIGINAL colors.
- This is not undoable, so BE CAREFUL!
-
- Other:
- WB: Allows you to turn Workbench on and off, if possible, that
- is, if there are NO other programs that have open windows
- on the Workbench.
-
- Title: Will turn the title bar on/off. The title bar displays
- the current memory available and is periodically
- updated.
-
- Free: Brings up three requesters. Selecting YES for any of
- these will disable the said function forever.
-
- Sleep: Will put Ultra Paint to sleep. This is relatively
- useless now, but was in there when the program was a
- multitasking hog. Left it in here 'just because'.
-
- CW:
- On/Off: Will enable/disable the color window on the screen.
-
-
- Bugs:: So far...
-
- There is a high possibility that any brush with a horizontal resolution
- greater than 320 will guru the program, or load in a very strange
- version of that brush. I am hoping this will be of little trouble,
- since Ultra Paint will only allow 320x200 brushes. If this poses a
- problem to you, please send me a letter.
-
- When a brush is loaded into a HiRes or HiRes Interlace screen, it is
- possible that Ultra Paint will guru, and a very good chance it will
- guru upon exit. As an alternative, load the brush as 'clip art' into
- the spare screen until this is fixed.
-
- Also, for some strange reason, zoom sometimes guru's when exiting. This
- only happens on certain occations, that I have not pinpointed yet. The
- only thing I can suggest is to exit slowly (like not move too many
- things at the same time). If you have any idea of how this could be
- fixed, tell me PLEASE! Thanks...
- (I think this bug has been fixed, or at least I have not been able to
- get it to recur after the fix...)
-
-
- Other than that...It's ok!
-
- Well, that's everything...Hope you like Ultra Paint!!!
-
- Lots of additions to come, like gadgets, brush functions, line thickness, etc..!
- so please register now!
-
- Steve...
-