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- * "MASTER WEAVE" IS A COPYRIGHTED SHAREWARE PROGRAM. *
- * COPYRIGHT 1987 by: *
- * Robert E. Cox *
- * Rt.1 Box 298 *
- * Morgantown, WV 26505 *
- * ALL RIGHTS RESERVED *
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- INSTALLATION:
-
- 1. Rename M_W.info to "MASTER WEAVE.info".
- 2. I suggest that you create a disk named PATTERN and install all files
- you have de-arced on this disk. The default disk id for load and save
- for patterns is PATTERN:. However, DF0: DF1: and DH0: are selectable.
- 3. NOTE: s_screen must be in the same directory as "MASTER WEAVE".
- 4. To run the program click on the icon from workbench. To run the
- program from CLI your CD must be the same directory as the program
- MASTER WEAVE and s_screen.
-
-
- PROGRAM NOTES:
-
- TITLE SCREEN
-
- As soon as the program loads a title screen will appear for about ten
- seconds. If you want you can click the left mouse button to rid yourself
- of the title screen sooner than the allotted time.
-
- TIE UPS
-
- If you are a weaver you will recognize the blank standard draft on the
- screen. The tie-up is a common one. Tie-ups can be changed at will by click-
- ing on the white square to turn it off and clicking in a blank square to
- turn that square on. You may have single, double, and tripple lifts for a
- particular lift combination. Your tie-ups can be in any order and any valid
- combination.
-
- COLOR
-
- The warp and weft templets are the same as you may encounter in most
- weaving books. To enter your own pattern simply select a color from the
- eight colors under the warp and click it into your desired square in the
- warp. (Color selection for weft is also done here)
- To erase a thread you have clicked in, just click again.
- You have the ability to change the default colors with the color
- pallette. Color combinations for each color is the standard 4096 colors of
- the AMIGA. To get the color pallette menu-select "COLOR PALETTE" under
- DISPLAY. Click on the color you want (in the color pallette window) and it
- will automaticly be displayed with it's number. Adjust the intensities of
- "R"ed "B"lue "G"reen with the knobs.
- You have eight weaving colors to work with. Colors 1,2,3,4,13,14,15,16
- are system colors for the display. You may adjust these colors as you wish
- if you are not satisfied with the default values.
- (These values will be saved with your pattern when you "SAVE" so
- that each time you "LOAD" this pattern the system and your weaving colors
- will be changed to the "SAVED" values.)
- Warp and weft thread colors may be one to all of the eight colors for
- for multicolored patterns.
-
- SCROLL
-
- Both the warp and weft have scroll gadgets. Single click over the S C or
- hold down the select button for an auto-scroll. You may scroll to a maximum
- of 320 warp threads and 200 weft threads. The arrow in the gadgets point the
- direction of the scroll.
-
- WEAVING
-
- If you have entered warp and weft information into the warp and weft
- grids, to weave just menu-select under "DISPLAY" "WEAVE IT". You may stop
- the weaving process at any time by clicking the left mouse button. The draft
- will automaticly be displayed.
-
- TROMP AS WRIT
-
- Tromp as writ is an interpretation of the sequence of warp threading for
- treadling. To use tromp as writ, enter your warp info, select a color for
- your weft threads and menu-select under "EDIT" "TROMP AS WRIT". Your
- treadling will be entered into the weft.
-
- CLEAR WARP WEFT ALL
-
- To clear the warp or weft or all of the draft, select under "EDIT" your
- option.
-
- LINES
-
- For full screen weaving, all 200 weft shots, select LINES 200. This is
- handy for an IFF save of your pattern for a printing or drawing program.
- However, it is important that you save (IFF) as soon as the weaving is done
- because when you display draft the title bar will be refreshed.
-
- TITLE BAR
-
- This option in "DISPLAY" displays the screen title bar for screen
- dragging. This will let you get to the workbench printer screen dump or
- another program in a multitasking envoirment. This option toggles. To get
- the window title bar back just select "TITLE BAR" again.
-
- LOAD AND SAVE
-
- Menu-select LOAD OR SAVE.
-
- DRAWER is the path for the program to find the the patterns for load and
- save. PATTERN: is the default. If you have created a disk with this name
- all you have to do get a directory of patterns is click the left mouse
- button in the box directly below "DRAWER" and hit <RETURN>.
- If you click in DF1:, DF0:, DH0: or RAM: patterns from those locations
- will be loaded into the directory.
- ONLY patterns on the pattern disk will be listed in the window.
- To load a pattern that is displayed just click the left mouse button with
- the pointer over the pattern name you wish to load, then select "OK".
-
- SELECTIVE LOAD
-
- You may load the warp of one pattern and the weft of another. Some
- unique results can be obtained with this metheod. Load a complete pattern
- and go back to "LOAD" again. Select another pattern from the window by
- clicking over the pattern name. THEN click over "WARP" or "WEFT" and then
- "OK". That pattern's warp or weft, depending on what you selected, will be
- loaded into the pattern in memory. Weave it and see the mixed results.
-
- SAVE
-
- To save, select from path df0: df1: dh0: where you want it to go. Beneath
- path complete the pathname if needed. EXAMPLE " DF1:twill/ " and hit
- <RETURN>. When that directory is loaded type in the lower box the name of
- your pattern immediately to the right of the text therein.
- If you want to save the pattern as a file that can be loaded into an IFF
- compatable program, click on "IFF" and then "OK". Both the pattern and the
- IFF file will be saved. The pattern for "MASTER WEAVE" will have a .pat
- extension and the graphics image will NOT have an extension. In your paint
- program, for example, you would load "mypattern" not "mypattern.pat".
-
-
- A NOTE TO NON-WEAVERS:
-
- If you have no experience with weaving and you would like to use this
- program for making graphic backdrops, borders and ect, a book worth having
- would be "A HANDWEAVER'S PATTERN BOOK" by Marguerite P. Davidson. The
- patterns in this book are drafted. There is several hundred patterns in this
- book.
- Also, I have included in this arced file several patterns. Load them and
- study the patterns formed by the colored blocks in the warp and weft. Play
- and have fun. Caution: It is addictive.
-
- A NOTE TO ALL:
-
- If you find that this program is useful a donation of $35.00 would be
- appreciated. All persons who do so will receive an updated version of
- "MASTER WEAVE" with magnify,graphics warp and weft editor,printer character
- draft generator (prints out a complete draft) for $25.00 when available.
- I plan to have these features implimented by Mar. 1988 or sooner.
- The complete version of this program will be distributed by:
-
- Robert Robison
- c/o Computer Annex
- Wiley St.
- Morgantown, Wv. 26505
- ph 1-304-292-8807
-
- Send donation to the above address or to me at the address at the top
- of this document.
-
- Thank You,
-
- Bob Cox
-
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