SPECTRAPAINT VERSION 3.1 ============ ======= === (C)1991 Twilight Software Released as freeware providing this documentation is distributed with it. FREEWARE: TRY IT - USE IT - COPY IT - SHARE IT - BUT DON`T CHANGE IT! History of Spectrapaint All these versions are 512K+ 1.0 Crud!, not much really. Released in compilation. 1.1 Never released 1.2 Never released 1.3 First materialisation in Crazy Joe's PD library in a compilation. 1.4 Distributed via a few BBS's 1.5 Distributed via AMOS PD library 1.6 Never released 1.7 Released in Crazy Joe's PD library All these versions are 1MB+ 2.0 Released in AMOS PD library, now on it's own disk. Loads of updates. 2.1 Very restricted release. Only 5 copies ever distributed. NOT PD. 3.0 Released in Crazy Joe's PD library and the AMOS PD library. 3.1 Updated font requester, change screen mode, ram banks. Bugs fixed. 3.2 Who knows??? If you only have 512K, sorry, but spectrapaint is too big to load into your machines. Why haven't you upgraded yet? If you do have 512K, simply send me this disk, along with an SAE, and I will send you a copy of V1.7 which will work on your machine. Send it to the Twilight Software address. Starting: From the CLI Use RAMOS SpectrapaintV3_0 From the Workbench Simply double click on Spectrapaint's icon From AMOS Select load and double click on SpectrapaintV3_0 You will have to change the search path first from :*.* to : A list of files included: SpectrapaintV3_0 Spectrapaint.DOC RAMOS WARNING: USE AMOS 1.21 OR ABOVE ONLY TO LOAD SPECTRAPAINT OR ELSE MR.GURU WILL VISIT YOUR AMIGA! When Spectrapaint has loaded, the mode requestor will appear. Choose a suitable mode and then click OK. The writing of Spectrapaint V3.0 === ======= == ============ ==== Spectrapaint V3.0 was written using AMOS 1.21 (AMOS is (C)1990 Mandarin/Jawx) The following software was used in the writing: AMOS 1.21 DPAINT 2 ED (!) The toolkit === ======= Along the bottom of the screen you will see the tool bar. Clicking an icon on this tool bar will activate it's function. Clicking a colour with the left mouse button will select it as the ink colour. Clicking a colour with the right mouse button will select it as the paper colour. From left to right, top to bottom: Click below applies to the left or right mouse button (ink or paper). TOP ROW: 1..Dotted line Click and draw! 2..Continuous line Click and draw! 3..Straight vectors Click the start or the line and hold down the mouse button. Release it at the end of the line 4..Boxes Click one corner and drag the box to the required size. Release the mouse button at the required size. 5..Filled boxes As boxes, but fills in the current fill colour and style. 6..Circles Click the centre of the circle and drag out to the radius. Release the mouse button at the required size. 7..Filled circles As circles, but fills in the current fill colour and style. 8..Spray Sprays in the current colour and at the current size. 9..Text Type in text. Left mouse button to fix, Right mouse button to write in paper colour. 10.Cut Cut a brush. Move to top left of desired area, click and drag to bottom right of desired area and release. 11.Paste Allows you to paste whatever is in the cut paste buffer. Click left mouse button somewhere on the screen to paste a copy. 12.Flip left-right Toggle switch to flip brush along vertical axis. 13.Flip up-down Toggle switch to flip brush along horizontal axis. 14.RGB filter Filters a desired colour out of the entire palette. Useful for video work. 15.Back box Moves the tool bar back to the default position at the bottom of the screen. 16.The drag box This box occupies the right hand quarter of the top row of the icon bar. Click on it and drag the tool bar out of the way. The palette bar will also move with it. This box also gives various short messages. BOTTOM ROW: 1..Make brush smaller Shrinks the brush used for option 1 on the top icon bar, or shrinks the size of the spray can. 2..Make brush larger Has negative effect of option 1. 3..Fill Clicking in a shape will cause it to be filled with the current colour and pattern. 4..Parallelogram Click on the screen, and release. Move the mouse until the base is the required length, the click and drag the top of the parallelogram to the required position. 5..Filled parallelogram As 4 but filled with current colour and pattern. 6..Triangle Click one corner, click second corner, click third corner. Simple, eh? 7..Filled Triangle As 6 but fills with current colour and pattern. 8..Rays Click centre for all rays, then click wherever you want a ray to go to. Click the right mouse button to bring the menu back up. 9..Choose font Chooses font for use with text (on top tool bar part). 10.Magnify Draw in ink or paper colour on large grid. Magnification buttons are down right hand side, as are movement buttons. 11.Pattern Choose pattern for all fills. Note that ink and paper colours are used for the pattern. 12.Pick Click a place on the screen and your present colour will change to that one. Useful to find a colour from a picture when lots of the colours are very similar. 13.Undo Undo's last drawing operation. 14.Ram Banking *** NEW *** Select a ram bank (1-3) to store the screen in. SAVE stores the screen, LOAD calls up a screen stored in the selected ram bank, ERASE emptys the current ram bank (freeing up any memory used by it). Note that the palette is stored with a screen. 15.Info Click and see! 16.Not yet implimented. Anyone written a screen copy routine? 17.Disk Allows disk access. Load & Saving of Pictures, Brushes & Palettes. 18.Palette Allows changing of colours by RGB method. Note special functions: SPRAY:Allows multi coloured spray can (in colour range) RANGE:Allows choice of colour range by following method: 1) Click starting colour 2) Click range 3) Click finishing colour > & <:Allows colour cycling (in specified direction) Off :Turns colour cycling off The slider bar below the <>Off arrangement allows setting of speed for colour cycling from slow (left) to fast (right). 19.Clear Clears the screen (Can be undone by clicking UNDO) 20.WB Exit program (you are prompted first). *** NEW *** If you click the first requestor to exit, a second requestor will appear asking if you want to go to the workbench, or restart. Clicking WORKBENCH will take you back to the workbench. Clicking RESTART will restart the program allowing you to choose a new screen mode. Known problem: A small block appears at the top left of the screen after you have loaded it from the ram banks. WARNING: In rare cases of VERY SEVERE MEMORY SHORTAGE, the program may crash returning you to the workbench. To avoid this, I recommend that 1MB users avoid picking up very large brushes. Disclaimer: If you lose 8 hours work by use of this program (even if you do as it says above) don't blame Twilight Software, or anyone else for that matter. I am not taking responsibility for the reliability of this program. You use this program at your own risk. ADDITIONS: Palettes from V1.0 > V2.1 will not load. Many thanks to... All the people who wrote to me with bug reports, suggestions etc. At your request I have added... "RAM disk" (4 pics in memory at once) Better font requester Restart program option If you want to contact me (about future releases, updates, giving me some money, problems, bug reports, etc..) Twilight Software 4 Brunt Road Rawmarsh Rotherham South Yorkshire England S62 5EW Make cheques payable to K.K.Hudson (Do I sense a subtle hint there?) Until spectrapaint V3.2 ... Kris