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- ** 2L8 Fill Pattern Editor Too Late Version 1.13 **
- * Jouni Miettunen * jon@stekt.oulu.fi * Oulu * Finland * Europe * 1994 *
-
- Copyright (c) 1994 by Jouni Miettunen. All Rights Reserved.
- Freeware - use, share and enjoy!
-
- But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old:
- `It's clever, but is it Art?'
- The Conundrum of the Workshops
- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
-
- ** WHAT IT IS
-
- One morning while I was having some breakfast I found an empty envelope
- on the table with no writing at the back.. This is the result of that
- seemingly innocent incident: a fill pattern editor.
-
- It served me well, so now I'd like to release it to you, too. This way I
- could make myself to clean up the code and take backups before it's too
- late. I just wiped out all the source for another similar small project
- and really don't feel like rewriting every util all the time..
-
- Please don't take my word, take backups. Take backups of backups of
- backups and never update them all at the same time!
-
- ** WHAT DO YOU NEED
-
- 8086+, standard VGA (640x480x16) and a mouse.
-
- ** HOW DO YOU USE IT
-
- This program is self-documenting, just press the buttons and see, what
- happens. Right mouse button reacts faster in some places.
-
- ** WHAT DOES IT DO
-
- Usually graphics libraries offer a possibility to fill polygons with
- user selected fill colors and fill patterns. With this small util you
- can design and test the patterns and save them in a file for later use.
-
- ** SAVING AS A FILE
-
- Current pattern will be saved at the end of file "patterns.pat" in the
- following format:
-
- {0x??,0x??,0x??,0x??,0x??,0x??,0x??,0x??}, // your comment here
-
- For suggestion how to use it, please read the following included files:
-
- bgipat.c Borland BGI graphics library sample
- gxpat.c Genus GX graphics library sample
-
- ** WANT MORE ??
-
- Sure, why not! If you have a good idea and can even give some strong and
- convincing arguments for it, I might listen to you and quite seriously
- consider upgrading the program.
-
- In any case it's always nice to hear from happy users.. Actually from
- any users at all. Such an incident would also noticeably increase the
- possibility that I might a) update this b) release something else.
-
- ** HISTORY
-
- 1.0 I found an empty envelope and couldn't resist the temptation
- 1.1 Cleaned up for first release
- 1.11 Hacked text edit functions to work with this + some cosmetics
- 1.12 5 more editing functions: 2x2, 4x4, 1to2, 1to4, swab
- 1.13 Can select background color with right mouse button
- Included 33 predefined fill-patterns
- Pattern viewing program (BGI and GX samples)
- TooLate <-> NeoPaint pattern file converters
-
- ** THE AUTHOR
-
- That's all folks! It's such a simple program I don't expect any bugs to
- surface, but if they do, please let me know. Suggestions are naturally
- welcome, but I'm happy with it as-is. Hope you can find some use for it.
-
- Mr. Jouni Miettunen
- Rautatienkatu 20 A 10
- FIN-90100 OULU
- FINLAND - EUROPE
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- * Jouni Miettunen * jon@stekt.oulu.fi * Oulu * Finland * Europe * 1994 *
- ** 2L8 Fill Pattern Editor Too Late Version 1.13 **
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