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- PAINT UTILITIES
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- Paintmover
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- Bill Atkinson's utility. Open a file, choose the options, select a region,
- and drag it to the output window. Can be intimidating to use. NEEDS 512k!!!
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- JoyPaint 1.2 - doc by John Stogdell Stokes III - CompuServ 74226,2660 8/4/85
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- JoyPaint is a free program will run on both 128k and 512k Macs as well as
- under Switcher. It displays MacPaint drawings and allows srolling them in any
- direction by using a simulated JoyStick. The operation of the JoyStick is
- meant to be intuitive. Open up a Paint drawing and then click in the JoyStick
- window. The cursor will change shape when you release the mouse and scrolling
- will start. Move the cursor around on the JoyStick to experience different
- speeds and directions. Click the mouse anywhere to immediately stop scrolling.
- In addition, MacPaint drawings may be flipped horizontally and/or
- vertically and may be inverted. The whole page (8 by 10 inches, not just the
- screen) is affected. They may be saved in the normal fashion.
- The 'New' menu key creates a new Paint file Select 'Invert' to create a
- drawing that is initially black. JoyPaint does not support the clipboard.
- Scrolling can occur when another window is on top. Open several desk
- accessories and move them on top of JoyPaint's window. The MacPaint
- drawing can be scrolled underneath the Desk Acessory windows. By covering up
- parts of the JoyPaint window, variation in scrolling speed results. If a
- narrow rectangular strip shows, scrolling is extremely fast and smooth. If a
- large jagged shape is showing, then scrolling is slower and less smooth.
- You may notice that upon opening a MacPaint drawing, if you scroll the
- drawing vertically at the start, scrolling is very smooth. But if you scroll
- to the side and then scroll vertically, scolling will be slower - this is
- because, at the start, both the drawing and the window are at the same "Mod 16"
- with respect to the horizontal coordinate of the screen. Shifting the drawing
- causes a difference to occur. When this happens, redrawing the screen takes
- more processing.
- This is my first Macintosh program written using the Macintosh 68000
- Development System. I thank the members of MAUG for their help in what I have
- learned so far. There are a lot of other things I could have put in, but I
- have decided to draw the line - unless I really get a lot of requests. I did
- not write JoyPaint to be independent of the current Macintosh window size (512
- by 342 pixels) or the MacPaint document size (576 by 720 pixels). This program
- is dedicated to Steve Jobs for providing the vision... for the rest of us.
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