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- Load Picture (Picture Menu)
-
- KEYBOARD = Right Amiga L
-
- This displays the LOAD PICTURE requester which allows you to load a picture
- or sequence of pictures.
-
- SEE -> `LoadPicReq.pic`
-
- The first time you select Load from the Picture menu, the file requester
- will display all of the available devices <DEV> and volumes <VOL> on your
- system. Devices are the physical drives that you have attached (floppy,
- harddrive or ramdrive). Volumes refer to the names that have been assigned
- to devices. For instance you may have named a harddrive partition as "Work"
- or "Graphics". Additionally, since the contents of a floppy drive changes
- whenever you insert a different disk, a volume name is used to refer to
- a particular floppy disk.
-
- The file requester is used to enter a path to a specific file. Simply click
- on the appropriate names in the requester to build a path to the desired
- file. Your current path selection will appear within the Drawer field. When
- you click on a file name rather than a disk or drawer name, the name is
- displayed within the File field.
-
- The DRIVES button displays all physical drive units attached to your
- system. These are the hardware names, such as DF0:, DH0:, RAM:, etc.
-
- The ASSIGNS button will list all of the current logical assignments in your
- system. These are names that have been added using the AmigaDOS ASSIGN
- command and include any of the standard system assignments such as, C:,
- LIBS:, DEVS:, FONTS:, ... etc.
-
- The Pattern field lets you enter a "wildcard" pattern. This allows you to
- filter out the list so that it only displays file names that match a
- particular pattern. For most purposes the standard pattern is:
-
- #?
-
- Entering this into the Pattern field will list all files in a directory. It
- has the same effect as entering no pattern into the Pattern field.
-
- #?.pic
-
- This pattern will display only those files that have .pic at the end of
- their name.
-
- Pic#?
-
- This lists only files whose names start with Pic.
-
- Pic#?.pic
-
- List only files that start with Pic and end with .pic.
-
- (#? is the basic AmigaDOS wildcard pattern, please refer to your AmigaDOS
- manual - or "The Buddy System for AmigaDOS", for more info on Pattern
- Matching).
-
- NOTE: The above functions of this file requester are also found in the
- requesters used when loading brushes, animbrushes, palettes, stencils,
- moves and animations (through other menu selections).
-
- The "# of Frames" edit field of the requester allows you to load multiple
- picture files to build an animation. All pictures being loaded this way
- have to be in the same format (same screen resolution and # of colors). If
- animation frames already exist they will be replaced by the newly loaded
- picture files. DPaint proceeds by loading pictures alphabetically starting
- from the selected picture name and going down the list for the requested
- number of frames.
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