Blitz Shape Editor V1.0 is at least for the moment a 16 colour shape editor for the excellent BLITZ BASIC 2 programming package, it as almost every bell and whistle imaginable and a few more, perhaps to many? Anyway the idea is to supply you the user with a friendly usable flexible and powerful editor with which to create your masterpiece with be it a Mind Blowing Addictive Unbelievably Playable Game or a New Generation Utility, what ever it is you want to make you will probable require some shapes to do the job, so why not use this editor to them in?
What can it do then?
Blitz Shape Editor has more than adequate drawing functions like Freehand, Line, Box, Ellipse, Fill and Text. Foreground and background colours as well as being able to Flip Shapes Horizontally, Vertically, Rotate Shapes 90 Degrees, Stretch or Shrink Shapes, Reposition Shapes, Resize Shapes, Position the Handle of a Shape, Delete Shapes, Insert Shapes, Clear Shapes, Find Shapes, Copy Shapes, Edit the Palette, Load a Palette, Save a Palette, Load Existing Shapes, Save Shapes, A Big editing screen (Recommended for faster Processors!!) View Shapes, Save Shapes as IFF picture, Load IFF picture and break up into shapes, Animate shapes, Load in a Soundtracker Song to reduce boredom and a rather useless but still a novelty, Speak option.
(Note: Comments and Critisms are welcome!!)
Drawing Functions
Left button for Foreground colour.
Right button for Background colour.
FreeHand: Will let you pixel plot in foreground or background colours.
Line : Will draw lines in foreground or background colours.
Box : Will draw filled rectangles in the foreground or background colour.
Circle : Will draw filled ellipses in foreground or background colour.
Fill : Will fill the desired area in the foreground or background colour.
Text : Will let you write text in foreground or background colour with a backspace facility.
Editing Functions
Clear : Will Clear the edited shape
Copy : Will copy a specified range of shapes.
Find : Will goto a specified shape making it the current shape.
Delete : Will Delete the current shape.
Insert : Will Insert a shape after the current shape.
Flip Y : Will flip the edited shape Vertically.
Flip X : Will flip the edited shape Horizontally.
Rotate 90 : Will rotate the edited shape 90 Degrees.
Scale : Will Shrink or Enlarge the edited shape according to the specified values either by pixel or percentage.
Scroll : Will scroll the contents of the edited shape within its self in a wrap style.
Handle : Will will reposition the handle of the edited shape.
Resize : Will change the size of the current shape.
Options
Big Screen : A large editing screen, recommended to be used by Amiga owners with faster processors as it can be fustrating with just a 68000 processor, still quite usable though! But it has the bonus of being easier to see what's going on.
View Shapes : Will try and display all the shapes in the memory onto one 320x256 16 colour screen, then allow you should you wish to, save the screen as an IFF file, if the shapes don`t fit on screen just change the first shape to be displayed in the Menu.
Grab Shapes : Will let you load an IFF picture and grab shapes the picture with one click of a button.
Play Shapes : Will play back a range of shapes Forwards, Backwards or Ping-Pong style allowing you to view shape animations.
Load Music : Will let you load and play a SoundTracker module to reduce boredom.
Speak : Bit of a useless function which makes the Amiga talk when something is selected, just a novelty really, turn it on and off at will.
File Access
Load Shapes : Will load an existing 16 colour blitz shape file.
Save Shapes : Will save the current shapes in memory to disk unless you wish to specify a range to be saved.
Load Palette : Will load a palette in an IFF file.
Save Palette : Will save a palette as an IFF file.
Save IFF : Within the View Shapes option, will save a compact view of all the shapes as an IFF file.
Load IFF : Within the Grab Shapes Option, Will load an IFF file ready for being broken into different shapes
Miscellaneous
Logo : Clicking on the Logo will flick between its self and a shortcut
screen.
Scroll : Any messages or credits.
Edit : Edit the current shape.
Store : Store the edited shape as the current shape.
Arrows : Scroll the edited shape display.
|< : Goto first shape.
< : Go back a shape.
> : Go Forwards a shape.
>| : goto the last shape.
What I used
Blitz Basic 2 V1.70 Excellent!!
Amiga 500 plus 2MB Sloooooowwwww
DPaintIV Nifty
Capital 95.8 FM More music, less chat
Transwrite Hmmm...
Although I try my best to rid my program of bugs, I accept no responsiblity for loss of data, or fried hardware, If you find a bug, Shape Editor users as well as me will be grateful if you report it and the circumstances under which it occurs.
All critisms, suggestions, ideas, cash are gratefully welcome!!!
