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R-Draw ST Painting System Public Domain by Randy McSorley R-Draw ST is a high-resolution painting program which can be used either in medium or high resolution. Due to the many features of R-Draw ST, 1 meg memory is required. When you first load R-Draw ST, you will see the MAIN MENU BAR and the title below it. Start the program by moving your mouse. All the functions of R-Draw ST are accessable through the MAIN MENU BAR. Here is a rundown of the features of R-Draw ST. MOVE MENU BAR - The leftmost box allows you to slide the MAIN MENU BAR up and down the workscreen. In this way, the entire screen is useable for your work. Erase - When you click on Erase, an alert box will ask you to confirm your decision to erase the entire screen before actually destroying your work. Save/Load - You will be prompted to Save or Load a screen. R-Draw ST pictures are saved and loaded in DEGAS format, and as such are trans- portable between DEGAS or DEGAS ELITE. R-Draw ST, however, does not require any special extender, so if you wish to load an R-Draw ST picture into DEGAS, make sure you give it a ".PI2" or ".PI3" extender. Print - The Print option will dump the screen to your printer. If you have a non-standard printer, I suggest you use a printer installer utility. I use the "DEGAS Printer Installer, (c) 1986 - ANTIC Publishing", an accessory written by Tom Hudson and available through START magazine. RAM - Three pictures can be saved in RAM disks and loaded back anytime later. Before you make any big changes to your picture, it's a good idea to save them to RAM. Also, the RAM pictures are used in the VIEW TWO program in the GEM area (see below). Line - To draw a line, press the left button where you want the line to start. Hold the button and move the mouse. When you release the button, the line will be drawn. To UNDO the line, press the right mouse button. Box - The square represents the box function. When you choose this, you will be asked if you want rounded corners before you can start drawing your box. To draw a box, press and hold the left button, move the mouse, then release it. To UNDO the box, press the right button. Circle - The ellipse represents the Circle mode. Make a circle in the same way you make a box. Draw - The dot in the next box represents the Draw mode. After choosing Draw, press and hold the left button while moving the mouse to draw freehand. By clicking the small box at the bottom of the Draw box, you can select larger sized lines to draw. Fill - After clicking the Fill box, move the mouse to an area you want to fill with a pattern (or solid color). Click the left button, and the area will be filled. To UNDO the fill, press the right button. Select Fill - By clicking on the shaded area to the right of the Fill box, you can select a pre-determined fill, or create your own. To select a pre- determined fill pattern, simply click "No" when the alert box asks if you want to create your own fill. The Main Menu Bar will then be replaced with a box filled with the fill pattern. Cycle through the available fill patterns by pressing the left button. When you've found the one you desire, press the right button to return to the Main Menu Bar. From there, you may select the Fill box from the Main Menu Bar to actually fill in an area. If you elect to create your own fill pattern, press "Yes" when the alert box asks if you want to create your own fill pattern. You will be pre- sented with a "Fill Editor" where you can draw a new fill pattern in the grid on the left of the screen. The "Grab" option in the Fill Editor allows you to pick a small part of your painting to use as a fill pattern. Select the box labeled "R-Draw ST" to return to the Main Menu Bar. Eraser - The twelveth box, represented by a large outlined box, is your eraser. Select this function and a small square will appear. Move this box with the mouse and press the left button to erase any portion of the screen. Use the right button to UNDO your erasure. Block - The "B" stands for the Block menu. Clicking this box will bring up the Block Menu Bar in place of the Main Menu Bar. The features of the Block Menu Bar are as follows: Move Menu Bar - The arrows in this box perform the same function as the ones in the same position in the Main Menu Bar. Undo - When you click on this box, all changes you have made to the screen since you entered the Block mode will be undone. Get Block - Use this function to select an area of the screen to be manipulated as a block. Get Block must be used before you can manipulate an area of the screen with the Block Mode. To Get a Block, select an area of the screen in the same way as you would draw a box. Cut Block - Erase the area defined in the Get Block function. Copy Block - Use this function to place your block anywhere on the screen. Simply move the block to the area you want it to appear and click the left mouse button. Flip Block - Make your block flip upside-down. Reverse - Make your block reverse left to right. Resize - Alter the size of your block, either horizontally or vertically. Mode - This option determines the way Copy Block will put the block on the screen: AND - Block and background stay. NOT - Block replaced background. XOR - If black in the block touches black on the background, white is the result. Can create some inter- esting effects. Main Menu - Returns you to the Main Menu Bar. Text - Clicking this box will allow you to place text on the screen. After you have selected this function, move the mouse to where you wish the text to start, and press the left button. A message will appear on the screen telling you to release the mouse. At this point a line will flash from the text's starting point to the right of the screen. When you type, the character will appear. The BACKSPACE and RETURN keys work. To UNDO your text, move the mouse and press the right button. Style - Clicking on this box will allow you to change the way the text will look on the screen. Click the boxes labeled BOLD, LIGHT, ITALIC, UNDERLINED, and OUTLINED to change those characteristics. The changes will be reflected where the text says "This is the style you selected". The final box, SIZE, determines the size of your text, either 4, 6, 13, or 32. Exit Style and enter the Text Mode by clicking the right button. Mirror - The "M" in the Main Menu Bar stands for Mirror. If you click this box, the entire screen will be reversed from left to right. This could prove useful for creating T-shirt designs. Zoom - Clicking this box will bring up the Zoom Window. The Zoom Window will appear in the upper left of the screen, and a small box which represents the area to be enlarged, will be able to be moved around the screen. Click the left button to "fix" the Zoom area, and then click on boxes in the Zoom Box to change areas on the screen. Click the right button to return to the Main Menu Bar. To work on areas hidden by the Zoom Window, move the entire screen with the Move Arrows (below) before entering the Zoom Mode. Quit - Return to the GEM desktop. GEM - Clicking on this box will bring up a standard GEM menu bar on the top of the screen, through which you can access accessories. Also in the GEM mode is a program called "View Two", which allows for simple animation by flipping any two of the three RAM pictures. You can also load any RAM picture from disk without loading the color palette. Spraypaint - The "S" with a fuzz of dots around it represent the Spray Paint function. You will be prompted as to the density of the dots and the size of the brush, and then you may Spraypaint by holding the left button and moving the mouse. Press the right button to UNDO your work. Hide Menu Bar - The "Bar" within the box represents the Hide Menu Bar function. When you click this, the Main Menu Bar will disappear so that you can see the entire screen. Press the left button again to bring the Main Menu Bar back. Color - When you press this box, a Color Box will appear. In it, you can select the color you wish to use (0-1 in mono, 0-3 in color). To change a color, select the color you wish to change, press SET, and enter three numbers from 0-7 standing for the Red, Green, and Blue levels that you desire for that color. Return to the Main Menu Bar by pressing MENU. Key - Pressing this box will allow you to move the mouse to where you want to start drawing, and press a key on the numeric keypad to draw up, down, across, or diagonally. The keys are used logically: 7 8 9 4 6 1 2 3 Press the right button to UNDO your work, or move the mouse to another area to begin using the keypad for drawing again. Left Move Arrow - Shift the screen to the left. Right Move Arrow - Shift the screen to the right. Set Move Arrows - Set the number of pixels to be shifted each time you use the Left or Right Move Arrows. Fuzzy - The fuzzy line represents the Fuzzy function. After clicking on this box, bring the mouse to any area of the screen and press while pointing at a BLACK line. The pixels in the line will become fuzzy. XOR Box - Selecting this box will let you draw a box similar to the Box function. When the box is drawn, however, everything within it will be reversed (black will turn white, white will turn black). Box Draw - This function will allow you to draw a small box around the screen, creating an interesting 3-D effect. Mirror Draw - Similar to the Draw function, only this function will draw a left-right mirror image. R - Credit where it's due! Help - Pressing this box will put you in the Help mode. In the Help mode, clicking on any box in the Main Menu Bar will give you a short description of its function. R-Draw ST was written using GFA BASIC from Michtron. Thanks to Michtron and GFA Systemtechnik for providing a terrific, powerful language. Any comments or suggestion concerning R-Draw ST should be sent to R.MCSORLEY on GEnie or directly to: Randy McSorley 339 S. Maple Street Kimberly, WI 54136 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~