"Personal Paint 7 - A. Program Messages" A. Program Messages This appendix lists (in alphabetical order) and explains the most important messages of Personal Paint. A more complete description can be found in the referenced sections. If the message is displayed in a requester containing only the Proceed, Cancel or OK gadgets, the key can be used instead of the OK or Proceed gadget, while can be pressed instead of selecting the Cancel gadget. Sections "1.10.12" ("The key") and "1.10.16" ("The key") have more on the topic. All rights reserved - Unauthorized reproduction or transfer is illegal This message has to be displayed for strictly legal reasons. More in Appendix F. Animation is not possible: image larger than screen As explained in the introduction to animation, the animation frame format cannot exceed the screen limits. It may be possible to open a larger screen by choosing a different screen mode, or by activating an overscan mode or by enabling autoscroll. Animations cannot be loaded as anim-brushes Anim-Brushes cannot be loaded as animations Amiga anim-brushes use a standard file format (described in section "6.8.2"), which is different from the formats normally used by animations. Furthermore, anim-brushes can be of sizes which are incompatible with the screen modes required to display animations. These differences make it difficult to directly process anim-brushes by animation functions, and vice versa. Personal Paint offers conversion options between the two formats through ARexx scripts. Animations cannot be merged The Color Merge functions only handle images - not animations. Another program is using the file The operation on the specified file cannot be performed because the file is currently being locked by another process. This can happen, for example, if another program is writing to the same picture file which Personal Paint is trying to load. Audio cannot be activated Personal Paint cannot start the CloantoAudio module, after searching for it in the "DEVS" logical volume and in the drawer (or volume) from where Personal Paint was loaded. By default, the "DEVS" logical volume is assigned to the "Devs" drawer of the boot disk (which may be the Workbench disk containing Personal Paint). It may also be that the CloantoAudio file was found, but the CloantoAudio module could not reply in time (handshake function) because it was slowed down by another disk operation, or because there was not enough memory. Personal Paint tries to load the audio module if there is enough memory to do so, and no other Cloanto program has already loaded CloantoAudio. The same CloantoAudio module can serve an unlimited number of Cloanto programs, thus overcoming the limitations set by the Amiga on the maximum number of open audio channels. If the CloantoAudio module is started manually (e.g. by selecting its icon), it remains RAM-resident until the computer is reset or switched off, and does not need to be loaded every time from its client programs. Sections "1.11" and "1.13". Bad IFF structure The file read by Personal Paint is recognized as being in IFF format, but its content does not keep to the rules defined for the IFF standard. Some programs do not use the IFF format correctly. Brush ... will be lost This warning message is displayed before Free Brush is executed (section "5.7". If the operation is confirmed, it will not be possible to recover the brush with Restore Brush. Brush frames will be lost The current brush is an anim-brush consisting of more than one frame. The anim-brush has not been saved. The selected command would cause the loss of all frames except for the current one. Brush size is ..., ... planes Used size is ..., ... planes This information is provided by the Chop Information function. More in section "5.13". Clipboard device cannot be opened The Amiga public clipboard cannot be opened. The "clipboard.device" file in the "DEVS" logical unit probably cannot be loaded. Personal Paint tries to open the Clipboard (if it is not already open) whenever this is required by a program function. Clipboard does not contain the required data A function which should read data from the clipboard has been used (e.g. brush data), but the clipboard is empty, or only contains a different type of data (for example, digitized audio) than what was expected. Sections "5.10" and "7.1". Clipboard write error In most cases, this message indicates that there is not enough memory (RAM or disk) for the Amiga operating system to store the specified clipboard data. Sections "5.10.2" and "11.1". Data compression algorithm not identified Graphical data can occupy more memory than one would believe. Different techniques exist to compress this data, so that it occupies less space than it would otherwise. Personal Paint uses and recognizes different standard image compression techniques in the different file formats it uses (IFF-ILBM, GIF, PCX, etc.) Another program may write some data using a compression method (or algorithm) not recognized by Personal Paint. When Personal Paint tries to load this data, it displays this message. This means that the data cannot be loaded by Personal Paint unless it is saved in another format. Decryption impossible An incorrect encryption key has been used to load an encrypted picture. An encrypted image can only be loaded if the same key used to save the data is also used to load it. This message can also appear if the disk is damaged or the picture file has been modified by another program, though this is very unlikely. Sections "4.1", "4.2" and "9.4". Disk incompatible The format of the disk in the specified drive is not recognized by the operating system. The disk may be damaged, not formatted or be in a format not recognized by AmigaDOS. Sections "1.3.4", "4.1" and "11.2". Disk is not mounted The specified disk is not inserted in any drive. Section "11.2". Disk is write-protected Data cannot be written on a disk which is write-protected. The hole at the corner of the disk must be covered by the write-protect tab. Section "11.2". Disk not validated The Amiga operating system has not yet validated the disk. The operation may have failed, or still be in progress, if the disk has just been inserted. If the disk is not successfully validated ("Disk not validated" system message), no new data can be written to the disk, which can be read normally. Section "11.2". Display Mode Selection Selected image... Current mode... - ... colors The picture selected for a load operation has the same size as the current image format. However, the selected file would require a different video mode from the current one (as indicated in the video mode information contained in the IFF-ILBM file, or calculated by Personal Paint if there is no such information). This requester allows the user to decide whether to maintain the current screen mode or to adopt the new one. Section "4.1". Error during file I/O Personal Paint has several detailed error messages which are used if an error occurs during a read or write operation. The Amiga operating system may issue error codes which Personal Paint cannot translate into messages indicating the exact cause of the error. If this happens during a file read/write operation, this message is displayed. Error during printer output An error is signalled by the Amiga operating system while data is being sent to the printer. The most likely causes are: printer is switched off or is in the off-line (deselected) state; printer is out of paper or the paper is jammed; the printer's cover is open; the printer cable is not connected properly; the wrong port (serial vs. parallel) was selected in the Amiga Printer Preferences. Sections "4.3" and "11.3". Error in file structure Personal Paint recognized the file format and began processing the file, but at some point the data was inconsistent with the format specification. For example, this could indicate improper use of pad bytes in an IFF file. Error opening diskfont.library version 34 Error opening icon.library version 33 The specified library does not exist, or its version number is lower than the one required. Error: The keys are different Personal Paint requires the encryption key to be written twice. This message is displayed if the first key and the control key are different. This additional control is useful to prevent an image stored using an incorrectly typed key from not being loaded any more. Section "9.4". File is protected from deletion File is protected from reading File is write-protected The specified file has a software protection which prevents the operating system from removing, reading or modifying it. The Workbench Information (or Info) or the Shell/CLI Protect command can be used to modify the access status of the file. Format Selection Requested format... Current format... - ... colors Selected image... Current format... - ... colors The current image format (i.e. size and/or number of colors) would be changed as specified in the Image Format requester or in an IFF-ILBM or settings file. When an image file is loaded, this requester allows the user to choose between the new and the current format. The Stretch option can be set to resize the image, if necessary. Color reduction is always applied automatically when needed. Sections "4.1", "4.5", "9.7", "9.8" and "9.13.3". ... frames out of ... would be stripped The Strip Frames function indicates how many frames would be removed, and asks for confirmation, before actually doing so. Image data is incomplete Personal Paint can now load incomplete or corrupt image files. Icons cannot be loaded The "PPaint_Icons" drawer cannot be found, or it does not contain the correct default icon files. Sections "1.14" and "9.10.2". Incorrect version of Personal.font This message usually appears only when a new version of Personal Paint is run for the first time. It indicates that the program, searching for its user interface font (named "Personal"), found an incorrect (probably older) version of the font. Normally, Personal Paint searches for the font inside the "PPaint:fonts" drawer (first choice) and in the system FONTS: directory (second choice). Any old "Personal.font" files stored in these directories are normally updated automatically by the installation procedure. The same should be done in case of manual installation. If different versions of Personal Paint or the Personal Fonts Maker need to be used on the same computer, and these programs require different versions of the Personal font, then the "Personal.font" file should be removed from the system FONTS: directory. This message may also be displayed if a correct version of "Personal.font" has been installed, but the old Personal font is still in use by the system or by an application. If this is the case, executing the "Avail FLUSH" command from a Shell window or rebooting the system should solve the problem. Section "10.4" has more on the Personal font. Incorrect version of the user interface texts It is likely that the program has not been installed properly, since it has found a user interface file belonging to a different program version. This may happen, for example, when testing a new version of the program which has not yet been installed (but another version of the program is installed). I/O libraries not found This error message indicates that Personal Paint was unable to locate and load its input/output libraries (used to load and save files), which are normally stored in the "libs" directory placed in the same drawer of the program file. This could be caused by improper installation. PPaint normally searches for these files both in the local directory and in the system "libs" directory, and uses the newest libraries which are available. Insufficient Chip memory for the requested screen Insufficient Chip memory to display window There is not enough Chip RAM to open a screen, window or requester. Sections "1.3.2" and "11.1". Invalid data This general purpose message is used if extremely unusual circumstances are encountered. This may happen, for example, when attempting to load an image whose size is 0 by 0. Invalid number of colors for the requested screen In most cases, this indicates that the hardware being used does not support as many colors as specified in the picture or settings file being loaded. Probably, a particular screen mode was requested in an IFF-ILBM file written on a computer supporting the same video mode, but with more colors. Personal Paint automatically selects a different video mode as close as possible to the requested number of colors. Invalid parameter in line... An error has been encountered in loading a settings file. One or more parameters of an instruction in the specified line have been found to contain a value out of the valid range. Sections "9.1", "9.2" and Appendix "C". Invalid window size To contain the required text elements, a window would become larger than the screen. This may happen if requester texts in a "UIText" file are edited without considering space limitations in lower resolution video modes. Sections "1.14" and "9.11". Line too long... An error has been encountered in loading a settings file. The line whose position from the top of the file is indicated is too long (i.e. it contains too many characters). Sections "9.1", "9.2" and Appendix "C". Memory save mode This message indicates that Personal Paint has detected a low-memory environment and has taken action to reduce the occupation of RAM. This mode can also be activated by holding the key down while the program is starting. If possible, the program does the following things: the audio functions are not used (the CloantoAudio module is not loaded); the Workbench screen is closed; the printer driver is not pre-loaded at the start of the program, and is removed from RAM (expunged) immediately after each print operation; the directory lists of the file requester are not stored to speed up the re-display of the same lists. Sections "9.15" and "11.1". No frames to strip The Strip Frames function has not found any duplicate frames. No memory for undo The Storyboard would not be able to undo the selected operation. If the operation is confirmed, the Undo and Cancel functions will be disabled. No monitor information for the requested screen mode An IFF-ILBM file contains a reference to a video mode which is not supported by the system hardware or operating system. (Most other file formats do not contain explicit video mode information.) It may happen that a given monitor, theoretically supported by the system, was not activated as indicated in section "11.4". Object too large An internal Amiga error has occurred. The data found is too large to be handled by the operating system. Operation impossible A function of the Amiga operating system has returned an error, but the cause of the failure is not specified. Personal Paint cannot complete the operation. Path incorrect The path (i.e. the set of names of drawers, separated by '/' signs) which is written in the file requester, does not exist in the requested unit. One or more of the drawer names are incorrect or too long (maximum 25 characters). Some characters cannot be used in the names of files and drawers. Sections "1.4", "1.5" and "3.4". Virtual Memory uses this message to indicate that the given path could not be accessed. Personal Paint attempts to create the last directory of the path (usually the "t" directory), but the rest of the path name must refer to existing devices and drawers. Path too long The selected path contains too many levels (i.e. drawers within drawers), which AmigaDOS cannot handle. Personal.font cannot be opened Personal Paint uses a custom font, which contains symbols especially designed for the program, for its user interface texts. On startup, Personal Paint searches for the font in the "FONTS" logical volume or in "PPaint:Fonts". Section "1.13". PostScript module cannot be opened The "PPaint_PS" file cannot be loaded by Personal Paint. The program needs to access this external module to output in PostScript mode. Sections "1.13" and "4.3.3". Printer device cannot be opened Personal Paint cannot activate the printer driver to execute a printing operation. This may happen if there is not enough RAM available, or if the "printer.device" file cannot be accessed in the "Printers" drawer in the "DEVS" logical unit. Sections "1.11", "1.13" and "11.3". Printing copy ... of ... An image or a brush is being printed. The progress indication gives detailed information on the data which the Amiga printer device has already sent to the printer, and the amount still to be transmitted. Sections "4.3", "5.3" and "11.3". Stencil size does not match The operation requested would have required the stencil to be exactly as wide and as tall as the image over which the stencil would have to be applied. Section "8.2" and subsections. Studio server cannot be activated The Studio Print mode was selected for printing, but the Studio Server software could not be activated. Most likely, the Studio software was not installed properly, or it is an older version of the software. The Studio Print Server software is supported from version 2 of the Studio and CanonStudio packages. Previous releases of Studio printer drivers can be accessed by selecting Personal Paint's "PRT" (System printer) print mode. In this case, it may be preferable to (also) activate Personal Paint's own 24-bit printing routines (section "4.3.2.4"). Syntax error in line... An error has been found in a settings file. In the specified line, a keyword has not been recognized, or a command parameter is missing or appears in an incorrect format. Section "9.2" and Appendix "C". The animation can be viewed using "Play File" Some animation formats (e.g. some rare HAM and HAM8 files) cannot be loaded and edited by Personal Paint, but only played from file. The animation has been modified The animation has been modified, but not saved yet. By proceeding with the operation requested, it would be lost. The animation will be lost Proceeding with the selected command would imply deleting the current animation. The current font has no palette The Copy Font Palette command has been executed, but the current font does not have an associated color palette. Sections "3.1.3.2" and "8.1.8". The current one is the only brush The Next Transparency command (which copies the transparency information of another brush to the current brush) failed because there is no other brush. Section "5.9.7". The drawer is not empty Delete was used to remove a non-empty directory. The filter requires a brush Some image processing filters use the current brush to apply certain transformations to the image. This message appears if no brush has been defined. The filter requires an additional brush Image processing effects such as Alpha Channel require two consecutive brushes. The file does not contain the required data A file has been selected for a read operation, but the data contained in that file is not of the expected type, or the content of the file has been damaged. This can happen, for example, if Personal Paint tries to load a settings file, but discovers that the file specified through the file requester contains a brush image. In order to reduce the risk of similar errors, files of different types should not be stored in the same drawer. It is also advisable to append standard suffixes to file names. Sections "1.4" and "1.11". The file does not exist A file has been specified for a load operation, but Personal Paint cannot find a file with the given name following the specified path. Section "3.4" ("The File Requester") explains how to avoid the risk of mistyping file and directory names. The file exists and would be overwritten An operation which would overwrite an existing file has been selected. The Confirm Overwriting option is active (section "9.9.6"), so the program displays this warning message, indicating the file whose content would be overwritten. The operation is aborted if the Cancel gadget of the requester containing the message is selected. This makes it possible to execute the operation again, using a different file name. The file will be deleted The Delete File command has been executed. The operation is aborted if the Cancel gadget of the requester containing the message is selected. The filter requires two environments Stereograms and other effects require two environments (i.e. two images). The filters apply the changes to the current environment, using the other environment as a source. The font cannot be opened The Font Requester has failed to load the specified font. This may happen if an incorrect typeface name is typed, or if the available memory conditions or a read/write error interrupt the font load operation. Section "3.1.3.2". The image has been modified The current image has been changed since it was last saved or defined. A command has been executed which would cause the loss of the current image (e.g. a Load Image or Quit command). The image is too large The maximum image size supported by Personal Paint is limited by the Amiga hardware. The original Amiga blitter could not handle images larger than 1008 by 1024 pixels. ECS and AA chips can process images as large as 32752 by 32767 pixels. The image will be cut An image format smaller than the format of the image currently displayed (or being loaded) has been selected. Unless the Stretch option of the Format Selection requester is enabled, this additional warning requester appears. Sections "4.1" and "4.5". The other image has been modified A Copy to Other command has been executed, but the image in the other environment has not yet been saved since it was last modified. Proceeding with the command would cause the other image to be lost. Section "4.8.2". There is not enough memory There is not enough memory to load the user interface texts There is not enough memory to perform the operation requested. Sections "1.3.2" and "11.1". The requested display mode does not support double-buffering The specified display mode does not support double-buffering. The introduction to chapter 6 ("Animation") explains this in more detail. This warning message is displayed only once during each session with a given screen mode. The requested screen cannot be used The requested screen mode requires 2.x O.S. or higher The requested screen mode requires ECS or higher The IFF-ILBM file specified for loading an image also contains a reference to a screen mode to be used. Due to hardware or operating system limitations on the machine used to load the image, another screen mode has to be used by Personal Paint. Sections "4.1" and "11.4". The screen is not available any more A screen selected in the Grab Screen requester was closed before it could be grabbed. Section "4.4". The selected image type cannot be loaded The selected picture file uses an image encoding format not supported by Personal Paint. These may include unusual IFF formats and image formats which could not be edited with the freedom and precision required by Personal Paint (e.g. Dual-Playfield images). The size of the following brush does not match The Next Transparency command cannot apply the transparency information of the following brush to the current one, because the two have different sizes. Section "5.9.7". The Undo buffer will be freed An explicit request to release the Undo buffer has been made (e.g. by selecting the Undo tool with the right mouse button), or there is not enough memory to allocate an Undo buffer for the selected operation. If there is not enough memory to display this message, the buffer is freed without displaying this request for confirmation. Sections "3.1.10" and "11.1". The ... user interface text should be shortened The ... user interface text should be made splittable The "UIText" file for the specified language was loaded successfully, but some texts were found to be too long to be displayed properly in some video modes. A text can be made splittable by inserting an underscore character ('_') where Personal Paint may go to a new line if there is not enough horizontal space. Some texts (e.g. non-"TMS" texts) can only be displayed in a single line. If these are too long, they must be shortened. Sections "1.14" and "9.11". The user interface text file cannot be opened The "UIText" file associated to the user interface language which is to be loaded cannot be found. Personal Paint searches for the files in the "PPaint_Prefs" drawer of either the "PPaint" volume, or the current drawer. Sections "1.14" and "9.11". Title not correct A wrong path has been specified for a file read or write function, or the selected file name is not correct. Sections "1.4", "1.5" and "3.4". UIGraphics.pic cannot be loaded The file containing the images used in Personal Paint's user interface could not be loaded. Possible causes include: file not found, insufficient memory, file corrupt. When editing the image, it is important that the reference lines used to the delimit the areas in the picture be respected and not modified. Section "1.14". UIText: Error in line... A syntax error has been found in a "UIText" user interface file. For example, a keyboard shortcut was not enclosed in a couple of '<' and '>' signs, or an unrecognized keyboard qualifier name was used. A line number greater than the number of lines in the file indicates that one or more texts are missing. Sections "1.14" and "9.11". Virtual memory settings cannot be changed There is not enough storage space to move the virtual memory objects which are currently in use. The changes to the virtual memory settings are cancelled. Virtual memory storage limit exceeded This warning message indicates that one or both storage devices used for virtual memory already have less free space than the user-requested minimum. This may happen after changing a virtual memory storage device, or after increasing the minimum values. Volume is full The unit to which a save operation has been directed is full, and cannot contain the requested amount of data. The data can still be saved on any unit which has enough free room to contain it. The disks which come with Personal Paint are almost completely full. Additional data (e.g. a picture) should not be saved to these disks. Instead, a new disk should be formatted, or a new drawer should be created on a hard disk partition where some space is left, to contain all Personal Paint files. Sections "1.3.4", "1.5", "1.13" and "11.2". Volume not mounted The selected peripheral does not contain any storage unit. There probably is no disk in the selected drive. This can only happen if the Expand Path option has been disabled, as Personal Paint's default volume access mode is by logical name, rather than physical name. Section "9.9.1". Workbench screen cannot be closed Personal Paint cannot close the Workbench screen, since it contains other windows than those used to display the content of disks and drawers. Section "9.15". Workbench screen cannot be opened Personal Paint cannot open the Workbench screen, as requested in a settings file or through a program menu. There is probably not enough free Chip RAM. Sections "9.15" and "11.1".