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- "Personal Paint - 9. Other Utilities"
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- 9. Other Utilities
- 9.1 AskAssign
- 9.2 ColorText
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- 9. Other Utilities
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- Personal Paint comes with different utility programs and data files
- designed to work in the same environment in which the main program is
- used. This chapter describes some utilities stored in the "PPaint_Tools"
- drawer of the program disk.
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- 9.1 AskAssign
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- As explained in section 1.11 ("Environment Variables and Standard
- Drawers") it may sometimes be necessary to use the AmigaDOS Assign command
- to assign logical names. The AskAssign program, which comes with the
- Personal Paint package, can also be accessed with the mouse from the
- Workbench environment, rather than the Amiga Shell or CLI. AskAssign is
- also used by the InstallPPaint procedure.
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- Section 1.13.1 ("Automatic Installation: The InstallPPaint Program")
- explains how to create drawers and select the directory (or volume) to
- which a logical name is to be assigned. When called by InstallPPaint,
- AskAssign is used to specify the position where the Personal Paint
- environment is to be installed. If AskAssign is executed as a stand-alone
- program (by double-clicking its Workbench icon with the mouse), an Amiga
- logical device name (like "PPaint" or "FONTS") may be assigned. The
- logical device name can be modified by editing the ASKNAME field in the
- Tool Types string gadget of the Workbench Information window. To do this,
- the Workbench Information menu must be selected while the AskAssign icon
- is highlighted (i.e. after a mouse selection). The texts displayed in the
- file requester may be modified by editing the other fields which can be
- displayed in the Tool Types string gadget. By default, the version of
- AskAssign which comes with Personal Paint is configured to assign the
- "FONTS" logical device name, if executed from the Workbench.
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- 9.2 ColorText
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- As explained in section 3.1.3.2, Personal Paint supports text editing
- using color fonts. Some multi-color fonts are also enclosed with the
- program. Amiga operating systems starting from version 2.0 support colored
- fonts directly. On previous versions, the ColorText utility must be used
- in order to integrate color font handling capabilities into the system
- software. ColorText was developed by Inter/Active Softworks, the creators
- of the original ColorFont format.
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- On operating systems previous to version 2.0, ColorText can be enabled
- with a double-click on its workbench icon. Starting from version 2.0,
- there is no need to use ColorText to use color fonts.
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