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- Help for NoPaint
- © André Timmermans 1996-1998
-
- Legal stuff
- ===========
-
- This program is 'FreeWare' and must not be copied to make a profit.
-
- This means that individuals, Public Domain libraries and Disc magazines
- may distribute DigitalCD as long as they charge no more than required
- by the distribution costs (disc, postage, ...).
-
- You may not distribute modified versions of this program and the program
- must be distributed as a whole. You are not allowed to use bits of it in
- your own programs.
-
- This program is supplied as is, and no liability can be accepted for
- damage or loss resulting from the use or misuse of the software.
-
- Introduction
- ------------
-
- Some time again I started to develop a C application named DigitalCD. As
- I was totally unhappy with RiscOSLib and some other available librairies
- I decided to create my own one. To test it and widen a little bit more
- is usefullness I developped a few little programs such as NoPaint, which
- I am now extending to make it a little bit more usable.
-
- Basically NoPaint displays a sprite file you drop to it as a list of sprites.
- Just like Paint? Well, it hasn't any edition facility but it allows you to
- select sprites and manipulate this selection, very useful for maintaining a
- list of wimp icons.
-
- Mouse operations:
- -----------------
-
- Click with ADJUST on the window if the window does not have the focus,
- will set the focus to the last item which owned the focus.
-
- Alt + Click on the name of a sprite will allow you to edit its name.
-
- Click/drag with SELECT on the background will clear any previous selection
- and start the selection of a range of items.
-
- Click/drag with ADJUST will preserve the current selection and invert the
- selection status of a range of items.
-
- Click/drag with SELECT on a selected item will start dragging the current
- selection. You will be able to drag the selection to a filer, another
- application, the icon bar icon where it will create a new list, this list
- where a ghost caret will show you the destination of your move (copy if
- shift is pressed), or another list where a ghost caret will show you the
- destination of your copy (move if shift is pressed).
-
- Click with ADJUST on a list which as not the focus sets the focus to that
- listwithout altering the current selection.
-
- Several additional commands are provided by clicking MENU on the list:
-
- + Save command.
-
- + Standard Cut, Copy and Paste commands (Global Clipboard is supported).
-
- + Select All and Clear commands.
-
- Keyboard operations:
- --------------------
-
- Usual actions on [shift][ctrl] arrow, page up, page down
-
- - Ctrl + A selects all items
- - Ctrl + Z clears all items
- - Ctrl + C copy the selection to the clipboard
- - Ctrl + V inserts the clipboard content before item which has the focus
- - Ctrl + X copy the selection to the clipboard, then deletes the selection
- - Del deletes the selection (no use of the clipboard)
-
- - Ins toggles follow mode on/off (use the arrows and you will understand).
- - Shift + Ins starts/ends a selection of an area.
- - Ctrl + Ins starts/ends an inversion of an area.
-
- - F3 displays the Save window.
- - Shift + F3 saves the file using its current filename or behaves has F3 for a
- new file.
-
- Credits
- -------
-
- Thanks to Chris manning for testing the program.
-
- History
- -------
-
- 1.00 01-Oct-97 First public release
- 1.01 14-Oct-97 Correction for screen mode with EY2
- Support of sprite files with offset to first sprite <> 16
- 1.02 22-Oct-97 Speeded up loading and saving operations
- 1.03 04-May-98 Corrected bug in menus for pre-RPC machines.