Scribble is a miniature drawing program that has on and off pen drawing, full color handling, DA handling, and full VLIR document file support.
When you run Scribble, you are presented with three choices.
is to create a file. You enter a new Scribble document name and then you are presented with the main drawing window. Here you can draw all you want, using color, and the cursor keys will move the mouse one pixel at a time.
is to open an existing Scribble file. Everything is the same as in creating a file. In general, Scribble will handle documents just like geoWrite or geoPaint, so it's not real tough to learn to use this application.
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is to quit to deskTop. Not really a feature, but it is there to select.
Besides the opening dialog box, there is the menu. It has two items: geos, and file.
@Geos
- here you have "info" which lists the title of Scribble and the author's name. If there are any desk accessories on your disk, here is where they will be listed. Only 7 DA's at a time will be listed. (You know that bit already from geoWrite.)
@File:
close - this will close the present document and let you open another one, or quit.
update - this will save the current changes to disk. Again, all this is the same as any Berkeley application.
recover - will load the last updated changes from disk. This is in case you really screw up an existing picture.
rename - will let you change the name of the current Scribble document.
print - will (I hope.) print your document to any printer. I only have a comm. compat., so I don't know how will act on other printers. Scribble will not print color on the printer.
quit - will exit to the deskTop
Almost all the file options will update the Scribble document, except recover, of course. Again, this is just like geoWrite or geoPaint.
The pen will be off when you run Scribble. To turn it on, you must click the mouse somewhere in the drawing window. To turn it off, do the same thing. The cursor keys will also move the mouse pointer pixel by pixel.
There are also five icons under the window.
@Back
- will change the background drawing color
- will change the foreground drawing color
@Clear
- will clear the drawing window
@Undo
- will undo any change JUST made in the drawing window. If you just cleared it, you can undo the clear. Selecting a menu item in the main menu will save the window to the background screen buffer. Hitting any of the other icons will also save the window. If you turn the pen on or off, that will also save the window.
@Color
- will fill the window with the current background and foreground colors.
You can also run Scribble by hitting any of it's documents icons from the deskTop. You can also print a Scribble document from the deskTop.
Well, that's about it for Scribble. Remember, if you have any problems, send me E-Mail. Don't leave comments. I'll never read them. Mail is easier anyway.
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