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** 2L8 Fill Pattern Editor Too Late Version 1.13 **
* Jouni Miettunen * jon@stekt.oulu.fi * Oulu * Finland * Europe * 1994 *
Copyright (c) 1994 by Jouni Miettunen. All Rights Reserved.
Freeware - use, share and enjoy!
But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old:
`It's clever, but is it Art?'
The Conundrum of the Workshops
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
** WHAT IT IS
One morning while I was having some breakfast I found an empty envelope
on the table with no writing at the back.. This is the result of that
seemingly innocent incident: a fill pattern editor.
It served me well, so now I'd like to release it to you, too. This way I
could make myself to clean up the code and take backups before it's too
late. I just wiped out all the source for another similar small project
and really don't feel like rewriting every util all the time..
Please don't take my word, take backups. Take backups of backups of
backups and never update them all at the same time!
** WHAT DO YOU NEED
8086+, standard VGA (640x480x16) and a mouse.
** HOW DO YOU USE IT
This program is self-documenting, just press the buttons and see, what
happens. Right mouse button reacts faster in some places.
** WHAT DOES IT DO
Usually graphics libraries offer a possibility to fill polygons with
user selected fill colors and fill patterns. With this small util you
can design and test the patterns and save them in a file for later use.
** SAVING AS A FILE
Current pattern will be saved at the end of file "patterns.pat" in the
following format:
{0x??,0x??,0x??,0x??,0x??,0x??,0x??,0x??}, // your comment here
For suggestion how to use it, please read the following included files:
bgipat.c Borland BGI graphics library sample
gxpat.c Genus GX graphics library sample
** WANT MORE ??
Sure, why not! If you have a good idea and can even give some strong and
convincing arguments for it, I might listen to you and quite seriously
consider upgrading the program.
In any case it's always nice to hear from happy users.. Actually from
any users at all. Such an incident would also noticeably increase the
possibility that I might a) update this b) release something else.
** HISTORY
1.0 I found an empty envelope and couldn't resist the temptation
1.1 Cleaned up for first release
1.11 Hacked text edit functions to work with this + some cosmetics
1.12 5 more editing functions: 2x2, 4x4, 1to2, 1to4, swab
1.13 Can select background color with right mouse button
Included 33 predefined fill-patterns
Pattern viewing program (BGI and GX samples)
TooLate <-> NeoPaint pattern file converters
** THE AUTHOR
That's all folks! It's such a simple program I don't expect any bugs to
surface, but if they do, please let me know. Suggestions are naturally
welcome, but I'm happy with it as-is. Hope you can find some use for it.
Mr. Jouni Miettunen
Rautatienkatu 20 A 10
FIN-90100 OULU
FINLAND - EUROPE
* Jouni Miettunen * jon@stekt.oulu.fi * Oulu * Finland * Europe * 1994 *
** 2L8 Fill Pattern Editor Too Late Version 1.13 **
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