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<<< THE PICTURE PACKER : STOS PAINT >>>
Original Program by Ralph Effemey
Revised by Jeff Prieb For 3 Resolutions
Shareware Version 2.41
Copyright 1992
About the Program:
STOS Paint V2.41 is a simple graphics editor that is included
within The Picture Packer to allow you to edit or create pictures
before converting or compressing. STOS Paint has been revised to
work in all three resolutions but can only be accessed if in the
same resolution as the picture in memory. Full docs for the rest
of the program can be found in the file PIC_PACK.DOC.
Descriptions of the Menu Options:
Choice menu
This menu contains 16 options from which the main art functions
can be found. All drawing commands behave in the following way:
* Select a function from the choice menu
* Use the mouse to position the drawing pointer
* Press on the left mouse button to begin the drawing procedure
* Keep the left mouse button pressed and move the mouse around.
Doing this will, in most cases, allow you to decide the final
appearance of the chosen shape/line
* Release the left mouse button and your shape/line will be
plotted
* In all drawing operations the right button will escape out of
the function and return back to the menu
* Pressing the UNDO key after a shape has been plotted results in
that operation being removed
The functions available are as follows:
Circle: Draws the circumference of a circle, the colour of which
can be selected from the Colour menu.
Disc: Operates the same as Circle but the whole area is filled in
with the current fill pattern.
Frame: Draws the perimeter of a rectangle.
Box: Draws and fills a rectangle
Fill: An area of colour can be changed with this option. The
colour and Fill pattern are selectable from their relevant
menus.
Line: Draw a straight line from point to point
Draw: For single pixel plotting. Constant movement will produce a
free-hand style of writing.
Brushes: These are shapes which can be selected for painting with.
Choose your brush with the cursor - repeatedly clicking
on the left mouse button will increase the size, shown in
the large window.
Ellipse: Similar to Disc but in this case there are two radii,
one for the X-axis and the other for the Y-axis.
Erase: Any size of the screen can be cleared with this option.
Select the top left section you require to delete and then
drag a box over the total area to delete. Remember UNDO if
you erase something by mistake!
Palette: The RGB values of each colour can be altered here.
Colour menu
When you pull down this menu, you'll be confronted by a display
of 2, 4, or 16 bars, each one representing an element of the palette.
Selecting one will set the current drawing colour to the one of
your choice.
Note that if you were using a drawing operation like Fill, after
you select a colour the program goes into the Fill option again.
This is so that you can mingle colours quickly when using a specific
feature.
Line menu
From this menu you can alter the way in which any future lines
are drawn.
Continuous: This type of line is always solid but has a selectable
width and the ends of the lines can be rounded, arrowed
or squared. Any future lines drawn after selecting this
will have these characteristics.
Broken: Lines from this option can only be one pixel wide but you
are presented with a selection of line types to choose from.
Extras menu
Choose fill: The pattern used for the Disc, Box and Fill commands
can be changed from this option.
Mirror >: Allows an area to be reverse mirrorred from left to right.
Use the rubberband rectangle to choose the area to
mirror. Then position the mouse pointer on the top left-
hand corner of where you wish to postion the new area.
Mirror ^: Flips an area of the screen from top to bottom. Works
the same as the above mirror only in up-down direction.
Airbrush: There are three sizes of airbrush available to you via
this option. An airbrush slowly fills in a circle full
of dots. If you move the mouse while 'spraying' with the
airbrush it gives an effect similar to an aerosol can.
Cut/Paste: Similar to copy, the difference being that the image is
removed from screen as it is 'cut'. You can then paste
it back as many times as you like.
Magnify: This will allow you to pixel edit easily and quickly. Use
the left/right cursor keys to change the colour of the
pointers and hence your drawing. Bell indicates that the
colour has been changed. As before, left button plots a
pixel, right exits.
Quit: Allows you to exit out of STOS Paint and back to the Picture
Packer menu. You have the option to save your current picture.