PSIONWPDATAFILE ROM::HP3.WDR BTBody text HAHeader A HBHeader B BLBulleted list leted list leted list y text y text NNNormal UUUnderline BBBold IIItalic EESuperscript SSSubscript 1Draw v2 User Guide Chocolate Island Software This document is the user guide for Draw version 2.06, a graphical bitmap editor for the Psion Series 3a computer, dated 30 August 1994. Please note that this software is shareware. You are free to try the program for a limited time. If you want to continue to use the program, you must register the program by sending the author the registration fee. Also, Draw v1 for the Series 3 is still available as shareware. Contact the author for more information, address given below. Overview This application * can create, view, edit and print PIC bitmaps. * can use the grey pixels in a bitmap. * is not limited by screen size. * has a 3x zoom facility. * can create icons. * allows cut, copy and paste to a bitmap clipboard. Installation - Copy DRAW206.OPA to \APP directory on any drive. - Install the application using Psion-I. Quick Start (if you don't like reading manuals) When run, Draw v2 creates a \PIC directory on the default drive, where new bitmaps will be saved. N.B. An example PIC file named 'example2.pic' is provided, which can be copied into a \PIC directory on the default disk. This file was created using Draw v2, and shows some of the features available. You can delete it after you have seen it. This application is shareware, and has the full features of the registered product. It also has a delay built into the 'save' routine, which displays a nag screen to encourage you to buy the product. When you register, you will be sent a registration key which you can enter. This disables the delay routine. On-line help is in the Draw application. Press the Help key. Usage Create files from the System screen, the same way as standard Psion applications. Move the graphics cursor ('+') around the screen with the arrow keys; use the Control and psion key to increase the movement. Use Enter or Space to set a pixel in the colour selected by the diamond key. Select a drawing tool using a hot-key or the menu. Use a shift key whilst moving to highlight areas as normal, then Delete to cut, 'Copy' to copy graphics back in etc. Use the diamond key to draw in Black, Grey or both. The tools operate in the selected colour too. Selecting 'Zoom' shows a small window containing a 3x magnified image of the current 24 by 24 pixels around the cursor. Selecting 'Icon' allows the top left 48x48 pixels of the bitmap to be edited in a magnified window. Feature summary ("colour" below means black or grey.) n - New file. Choose the height and width of the new bitmap, and whether the grey plane is to be used. Bitmaps with grey are twice the file size of those without. o - Open file. Load a PIC bitmap file. Will normally load both black and grey planes of a multi-colour bitmap, but can be set to load either. See Options. a - Save as Save the bitmap with a new name. Uses the new file. s - Save v - Revert m - Merge in Overlays other PIC bitmaps onto the current bitmap. Move the other bitmap with the cursor keys until it is positioned correctly then press Enter to confirm or Esc to cancel. i - Insert Paste the clipboard contents into the current bitmap. Position with the cursor keys then Enter to confirm, or Esc to abandon. c - Copy Copy the highlighted area into the clipboard, overwriting the current clipboard contents. L - Highlight all Highlight the entire bitmap. w - Mode Changes the way items are draw onto the current bitmap, e.g. set, invert, replace. y - Style Sets the text appearance. Eg. double height, italic, underline. N - Font Choose the font for text. Any of the 13 built-in S3a fonts can be used. Roman 16 is the default. Tools t - Text Places a input text string onto the bitmap in the current style and font. Position with cursor keys, then Enter to confirm, or Esc to cancel. l - Line Draws an elastic line. The current cursor position is the first point. Move the cursor to the second point. The line 'stretches' with the cursor. Press Enter to confirm, or Esc to delete. b - Box Draws a box. The current cursor position is one corner. The box is drawn with the diagonally opposite corner at the cursor. Move the cursor, then press Enter to confirm. k - Circle Draws a square box as above for a outline guide. The height and width are kept equal to each other. When Enter pressed, a circle is drawn, with its diameter the same as the box. (The box disappears.) e - Ellipse Draws an ellipse. The current cursor position is the corner of an outlining rectangle. Size the outline rectangle as required then press Enter or Esc. For Enter, an ellipse is drawn that fits exactly in the outline rectangle. The outline disappears. B - Filled box As above but filled with solid colour, chequered pattern or the clipboard. K - Filled circle As above, but filled with solid colour. E - Filled ellipse As Filled circle. Alter r - Rotate Spins the current highlighted area clockwise or anti-clockwise by 90 degrees. f - Flip Flip the current highlighted area across a horizontal or vertical axis (ie. a mirror image). h - Shift Drag the pixels in the current highlighted area. Pixels will automatically rotate around top/bottom and left/right. d - Dimension Change the size of the current bitmap. Gives a warning dialog if parts of the bitmap will be lost. z - Zoom Zooms in on the current 24x24 pixels around the cursor in 3x magnification. Psion-z again will close this window. u - Update zoom Redraws the magnified pixels in the zoom or icon window. H - Icon Magnifies the top-left 48x48 pixels in a 3x magnification. Psion-Shift-h again will close the Icon window. Clipboard W - View clipboard Shows the current contents of the clipboard. C - Clear clipboard Clear the current clipboard. O - Open clipboard Load the clipboard from a file. A - Save as clipboard Save the clipboard to a file. D - Disable clipboard Stop Delete from cutting to clipboard. P - Set jump point Mark the current cursor position as one of four points that the cursor can jump back to with Psion-J. R - Reset jump point Stop using the current jump point. j - Jump Jump to the next jump point. J - Jump back Jump back to the previous jump point. T - Snap-to-grid Keep the cursor on a grid 8 pixels apart. When this option is selected, the cursor will jump to the nearest grid point. Use the Control and Psion keys to speed movement up. Use Psion-Shift-t again to switch the snap-to-grid off. Special q - Options Set your preferences for : Magnify grid Display a background grid in the magnify windows of None, Grey dots, Grey lines, Dots or Lines. Cursor type Change the cursor to Dot, Small, Medium or Large cross, Lines or Pointer. Cursor step Set the number of pixels to step when the Control key is used during cursor movement. Cursor scroll Set the way the screen scrolls when a bitmap larger than the screen size is displayed. Either Normal or Smooth. Smooth means the scrolling more closely follows the cursor movement. Fill pattern Choose the pattern that appears inside filled boxes. Either Solid colour, Chequered pattern or the Clipboard. Bitmap number Choose which bitmap plane to load from a multi-bitmap file. Normal 3a .PIC files are two-plane, the black in plane 0, and the grey in plane 1. Load monochrome only Force the loading of one plane from a multi-plane bitmap file. Normally Draw v2 will load two colour planes if they are present in the file. U - Status Show the current cursor position, the size of the bitmap, whether it has been modified since loading, and whether grey can be used. V - About Show the application version number etc. Q - Register Enter your personalised encrypted registration key here. (To get your key, see Registration below.) Make sure you enter it correctly here. If you don't, the message "Invalid key" appears, and you can try again. When it is entered correctly, a message appears confirming you are registered. Each time Draw v2 is started, a message appears indicating the software is registered to you. The key details are stored in \OPD\Drawreg.dat on the default drive. You must ensure this file is present each time Draw is used, otherwise it will run as unregistered. p - Print Print the bitmap to an Epson (or Epson compatible) printer using the parallel or serial port. (Or print to a file.) Grey parts of the bitmap are dithered into a greyscale on the printer. If there is a problem, you can hit Esc to abandon the printing. X - Exit, lose changes Quit the application. A dialog box will confirm that changes are to be lost. x - Exit Quits and automatically saves the bitmap if it has changed. Diamond (Only available in multicolour bitmaps) F - Black Set the tool colour to Black. G - Grey Set it to Grey. H - Both Set it to both black and grey. This is the default setting. Usage Tips Make the bitmap an extra 150 pixels higher than it should be and use the lower area as a 'scratchpad' for temporary intermediate work. Set a jump point there so it can be reached quickly. When the bitmap is finished, resize it back to the original dimensions, losing the scratchpad area. Having the scratchpad also means the cursor status window won't cover the cursor when it's at the bottom left of the bitmap. Save your eyesight - use 'Zoom' for any fiddly work. Use the S3a built-in "snapshot" command (Psion-Control-Shift-S) to capture the screen of any application into \SCREEN.PIC. For example, to use a spreadsheet graph in a bitmap, use the Sheet application to display the graph, capture it with Psion-Control-Shift-S and load it into Draw v2. Highlight the area you want, cut it to the clipboard and save it. Then load it into your new bitmap. If using PC .PCX format bitmaps, use Psions public domain (freeware) format converter "WSPCX" which runs on a PC and can convert .PCX bitmaps to .PIC and vice-versa. To get shadowed text (e.g. the text 'City' in the top left of the World application), create a grey background (select grey, and draw a filled box) then select Both colours (Psion-shift-H) and ensure the Text mode is 'Set' (Psion-W). Enter the text required using the Text Tool. Position it and press Enter. Now set the Text mode to Clear, and enter the same text into the text tool. Move the cursor left and up one pixel and hit Enter. Shareware This program is shareware and copyright (c) Rick Andrews 1992-1994. It is a 'Chocolate Island Software' program. Note: Disassembly or reverse translation of this program is prohibited. You should have the following files: 1. DRAW206.OPA - the Draw application. 2. EXAMPLE2.PIC - the example bitmap. 3. DRAW2.WRD - this file! Registration If you find this program useful, or wish to keep it, please register it with me by sending 10 to me: Rick Andrews 16 Alpine Street Reading Berkshire England RG1 2QA Internet: rick@cix.compulink.co.uk You must include your name as it is to appear on the registration details (maximum 20 characters including spaces), and the version number of Draw (e.g. 2.06). You will be sent an encrypted registration key by return of post (or sooner if you include an email address) which you simply enter at the Registration Key prompt (Psion-Shift-Q). The key is then saved in \OPD\Drawreg.dat on the default drive and this file must be present in \OPD on a local drive every time Draw is used. When a valid registration key is found in this file, the annoying nag screens when saving are disabled. Note: the Drawreg.dat file is unique to you and must not be distributed to other people. Please could you let me know what you like/dislike about the program, and where you obtained it. Details of any upgrades and changes made to the current version etc will be included in the registration letter. 3-Lib Psion Series 3 and 3a shareware and public-domain software is available through 3-Lib, the clearing house for psion third-party software. For a catalog, contact: Steve Litchfield 3-Lib 8 Grove Farm Mytchett Surrey GU16 6AQ England CIX is a subscriber computer conferencing system that also has internet facilities. It has a well established Psion conference (around 800 participants) and a large library of shareware for the S3 and S3a. There are over 2500 conferences for other subjects. CIX can be reached on 0181 390 1255 (data, 8N1) for more details. Or telnet cix.compulink.co.uk New features? Hopefully, features to come in the next version of Draw... Sprite handling and management. Support for using user-definable fonts. Further details will be sent when registering. Happy DRAWing, Rick Andrews rick@cix.compulink.co.uk BTNN- BTNN~ BTNN BTNN0 BLNN' BLNN! BLNN4 HBBB3 BLNN) HBNN$ BTIIV BTNN5 BTNN= BTNN> HBBB& BTNN5 BLNN BLNN BTNN[ BLNN BTNNT BTNNA BLNN BTNNb ZAUU BLNN BTNNL BTNN) BTNNO BLNN BTNN^ BTNNu BTNNd BLNN BTNNs BTNN: BLNN BTNNl BTNN. BTNN! BTNN( BTNNg BTNN$ BLNN BTNN' BLNN` BLNNJ BLNNV BLNNn BTNN* BTNNN BLNN BTNN= ZAUU( BLNN BLNN BTNN= BTNN5 HBBBq BTNNH BTNN% BTNN' BLNN& HBBBf BTNN# BTNNT BTNNY BLNN BLNN BTNN` HBNN; BTNN BLNN( BLNN/