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S O N O F C L I P A R T I S T
by Dick Heckert
If you wanted to use CLIP ARTIST, my drawing program on LOADSTAR 128
#13, but did not have the 64k VDC chip or the mouse, then this program was
written for you. You control the program with the CRSR keys instead of the
mouse and the RETURN and SPACE keys instead of the mouse buttons.
The work screen is a BASIC 8 monochrome screen with a draw window, a
command window, and 36 rectangles that can be thought of as icons. The draw
window, where your image will appear is a little to the left of the center
of the screen. It changes sizes to accommodate the different formats SON OF
CLIP ARTIST supports. The command window is to the right of the draw
window. Keep an eye on this big rectangle for messages and prompts.
Each of the 36 icons is part of one of the following five columns.
DRAW BRUSH DISK MOVE FORMAT
DRAW commands allow you to draw shapes, lines and other objects in the
draw window.
BRUSH commands allow you to manipulate parts of the draw screen as a
single block.
DISK commands allow you to load, save, choose a drive and see the
directory of a chosen drive.
MOVE commands allow you to manipulate the whole drawing area, including
expanding, shrinking, rotating and size correcting.
FORMAT commands allow you to choose between four different formats of
graphics - Print Shop 2-block, Print Shop 3-block, PrintMaster and BASIC 8
brushes.
By using the CRSR keys you can move an arrow around anywhere on the
screen, until it's on an icon. When you press RETURN, that function will be
chosen. Each of the icons are described below.
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DRAW
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The draw menu includes all the tools you will need to make your own
small graphics. When in the draw window, you can press (F) for fast cursor
movement or (S) for slow. The current speed is shown in reverse below the
draw window. Use the slow mode for fine drawing and the fast mode for
moving the pinpoint cursor all the way across the draw window.
LINE - This allows you to draw from point to point until you press the
SPACE bar. Set the pointer to the first point with RETURN and then CURSOR
to the second point and press RETURN. That line will be drawn. If you want
to continue, just move to another point and press RETURN. To abort at any
time, press the SPACE bar. To get out of line mode and back to the menu,
press the SPACE bar again. This releases the pointer from the draw window
and allows you to select from the menu boxes again.
RAYS - With this tool you can set the original point with RETURN and then
CURSOR out and draw a series of lines from the same point. Press the SPACE
bar to abort a series and press it again to return to the menu or start a
new series of rays with RETURN.
BOX - This will help you draw a rectangle by pressing RETURN for the first
corner, stretching out the box until it looks right and then pressing RETURN
again to draw the box. Press the SPACE bar to abort if the box doesn't
look right.
OFFSET BOXES - Vertical or horizontal offset boxes are drawn by pressing
RETURN for the first corner, pressing RETURN to set the opposite corner and
then stretching the box image right/left or up/down for the offset. The
images in the menu box show how the finished box will look.
CIRCLE - This tool will draw a round circle on the screen after you set the
center with RETURN and set the radius by moving the pointer to the right or
left. When you have the correct radius, press RETURN to draw the circle.
Only that portion of the circle in the draw window will be drawn. When
finished with circles, press the SPACE BAR to abort to the menu. Only slow
cursor speed is available for CIRCLES.
ELLIPSE - This mode works a little differently. The first RETURN sets the
upper left corner of a box which will define the limits of the ellipse.
Then stretch out the box and RETURN again to draw the ellipse within the
limits.
FREEHAND - In this mode the little pointer (shown in the menu box) can be
used to draw any shape you like by pressing RETURN to start and SPACE to end
as you cursor around in the draw window.
ERASER - This turns off pixels in the same manner the FREEHAND mode turns
them on. Locate the eraser pointer and press RETURN. Pixels under the
pointer are turned off. You can move the pointer and press RETURN again to
erase another spot. SPACE returns you to the menu.
PAINT - Move the pointer to an area completely surrounded by lines and then
press RETURN. The enclosed area will be filled. Be careful! If your area
is not completely enclosed the paint will leak out and fill the window.
CLEAR - This will erase everything in the active draw window, whether it's
a large brush window or a small 2-block image window.
Remember, in general, RETURN initiates an action and the SPACE bar
returns you to the previous mode or to the menu. If the pointer will not
move out of the draw window and you want the menu, press the SPACE bar.
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BRUSH
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The brush tools allow you to use the Basic 8 commands to manipulate the
image in the draw window.
CLIP - This copies that portion of the draw window defined by pressing
RETURN and then moving to the lower right corner and pressing RETURN again.
This area is saved to a buffer to be PASTED to the draw window later.
PASTE - Choose PASTE and a floating image of the clipped buffer will appear
in the draw window. Use the CRSR keys to position the image and press
RETURN to paste it.
MIRROR - This option flips whatever is in the draw window right to left.
FLIP - This flips the image upside down.
REVERSE - This turns all on-pixels off and all off-pixels on.
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DISK
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These commands cover any disk access and drive setup.
DISK 8, DISK 9 - The program supports two disk drives (8 and 9) so you can
load from one drive and save to another. Just RETURN on the drive number
box and all subsequent drive activity will be from that drive.
LOAD - Press RETURN when the arrow is on this box and you'll be asked for a
filename. You may want to use DIRECTORY first. If you're in the B8 BRUSH
mode, the prefix "brus." will be entered and displayed for you.
SAVE - You'll be asked for a filename. If you're in the B8 BRUSH mode you
don't need to enter the "brus." prefix.
DIRECTORY - If you want to see the directory of the active disk drive,
select DIRECTORY. All files are shown unless you are in B8 brush format
where only brush files are shown. If the drive selected is a 1581, you will
be asked if you want to open a partition. If the answer is no, then the
root directory will be active. If yes, just enter the name of the partition
(wildcards are okay). The name of the active disk or partition is shown
below the command window. When the directory is shown, you may press P with
your printer turned on for a hardcopy of the active directory (root or
partition).
NOTE: The Printmaster filenames contain a non-standard mixture of ASCII
upper/lower case. The hardcopy makes more sense than the Basic 8 directory
shown on the screen so you might want to print out a PrintMaster directory
to aid you in entering filenames. The program corrects for the lower-upper
case PrintMaster filenames when entering a filename for LOAD.
If you LOAD a graphic without clearing the draw window, the second
image will be added to the first. If you want to abort a load or save,
enter "x" for the filename. Images can be saved in 2-block or 3-block Print
Shop format or in a Basic 8 brush file. Sorry, no saves to Printmaster
format. If you load a Basic 8 brush file larger than the draw window, it
will not be restricted to the window, but will sprawl out over part of the
menu. To clean up the screen, just go to the directory and back.
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MOVE
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UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT - The image in the draw window can be moved up, down,
left or right by selecting your choice. If you move part of the image out
of the current window, that part will be erased. It doesn't wrap around. A
portion of the image can be moved by clipping, erasing