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BELLES PAINT v1.0
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PORTIA SOFTWARE
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QUICK DOCS
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If you are using a harddrive the best thing to do is drag the whole BPaint
draw onto your "WORK" partition, it will then run by double-clicking it's
icon and print using your harddrive prefs. Not everyone owns a harddrive so
the disk is also autobooting, slip it into your internal drive DF0: and turn
on the power, after a short while you'll be looking at a black screen with
a load of buttons at the bottom, most of these buttons are straight forward:
LOAD - Opens a requester to select and load a picture.
SAVE - Opens a requester to select and save a picture.
DELETE - Opens a requester to select and delete a picture.
PALETTE - Allows you to adjust the colour palette, click the
button and the standard palette slider will appear,
select a colour from the palette bar running along
the centre of the screen and move the sliders.
PRINT - Prints the current screen.
FONTS - Opens a requester to select the font to be used,
"Bitmap" or "iff" and then choose a font.
SPARE - Opens and flips to a spare screen.
SHOW - Displays the whole screen.
FLIP-H - Flips the whole screen horizontally.
FLIP-V - Flips the whole screen vertically.
QUIT - ????
FORMAT - Selects the screen mode.
ABOUT - Displays version number.
TOOLS - Moves to the tools menu buttons.
You can move from the "TOOLS" menu to the "PICTURE" menu at any time, the
menu currently selected is shown in the top left-hand corner. The "TOOLS" menu
is a little more complicated, but again is setout like most paint programs.
The colour palette is shown at the top and the selected colour is highlighted
by a small box. Below the palette are the built-in brushes and paint modes.
I'll just mention one or two of the special features:
PATTERN - Selects one of the built-in patterns for filling
objects. To test, select the button and then a
pattern from the display and press USE. If you now
select SOLID and CIRCLE, the circle will auto-fill
with the pattern.
CLEAR - This button clears the current screen, to use it
select CLEAR and a requester will appear to check
if you want to proceed, click YES and the mouse
pointer will move to the palette bar. Click on any
colour and the screen will clear to that colour.
DRAWING
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Use the left mouse button (LMB) to select tools and to move from menu to menu.
When a tool is selected move to the drawing area, start drawing and the menu
will disappear leaving only the palette bar, use the LMB to change colours.
To return to the menu simply press the Right Mouse Button (RMB).
VIDEO PRESENTER WIPES
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When you create a picture and wish to use it in a sequence to produce a video
intro, it must be saved under a special name, which allows the program to load
it when required eg:
Vid.01.pic-name.04.08.09
^^ ^^
|| Wipe OUT
Wipe IN
In the above example the image will "Wipe IN" with 08 and "Wipe OUT" with 09,
below is a list of all the video wipe codes.
00 = Shape to screen (IN)
00 = Clear screen (OUT)
01 = Centre to 4 corners
02 = 4 corners to centre
03 = Left to right
04 = Right to left
05 = Top to bottom
06 = Bottom to top
07 = Left & right to centre
08 = Left to right & right to left
09 = Top & bottom to centre
10 = Top to bottom & bottom to top
Other points to note are:-
PREFIX ....... Vid.01.pic-name.04.08.09
^^^
Your picture MUST have this prefix.
SEQUENCE ..... Vid.01.pic-name.04.08.09
^^
First picture in sequence.
WAIT ......... Vid.01.pic-name.04.08.09
^^
Wait approx 4 seconds.
BACKGROUND ... Vid.01.pic-name.04.99.99
^^ ^^
Set both wipes to 99 on
background pictures.