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COLOR PAD
By Frans Pretorius
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ColorPad is a coloring book on disk containing four pictures.
To run it, double-click the ColorPad icon in the ColorPad directory.
Once the program is loaded, there will be a brief pause as the
directory is being scanned. You are then presented with a list of names of
pictures to color. The program can be exited at this stage by clicking with
the left mouse button in the upper left corner of the screen.
Use the keyboard to select the picture you wish to color, by pressing
letters A, B, C or D.
If there is an error loading the picture, the screen will flash and you
will have to try again or select another picture.
While the following won't happen in this version, if there is
no picture list evident, it may be the program is searching for the pictures
in the wrong directory. This may happen if you copy the picture files to a
directory other than the one containing the ColorPad file. To change the
directory in which the program searches for picture files, click in the
string gadget at the bottom of the screen and type in the name of the
directory containing the picture files.
Once the picture has loaded, you can start coloring it. Any of the 32
colors in the box at the upper right corner of the screen can be used for
coloring. To select a color, click on it with the left mouse button. A
selected color has a box drawn around it. The background color (explained
later) is selected by clicking on the color with the right mouse button and
has a box drawn around it slightly smaller than the box of a normal color.
This shows it is selected.
Coloring an area of the picture is simple: Put the mouse pointer over
the expanse to color and click the left mouse button.
The patterns on the lower right of the screen can be used to color an
area instead of using a solid color. Click on the pattern you wish to use
with the left mouse button. With patterns the background color mentioned
above is used to fill in the background spaces in a pattern. Solid coloring
can be used again by selecting the solid pattern.
The most recent coloring step can be undone by pressing the right mouse
button anywhere on the screen other than the color box, where it would
instead select the background color. This is useful if you unintentionally
fill in the black lines of the picture.
Clicking on the letter O(Old picture), located between the color and
pattern boxes, redraws the picture on the screen for recoloring.
Clicking on N (New picture) lets you choose a new picture to paint.
Clicking on B(screen to Back) places the ColorPad screen behind all
other screens, which in most cases will bring up the Workbench screen.
Clicking on the close gadget of the screen exits ColorPad.
DESIGN YOUR OWN PICTURES
If you own a program such as DeluxePaint, you can draw your own
pictures for use with ColorPad. All pictures you draw must be saved as IFF
ILBM 280 by 188 pixel brushes, with one bit plane (two colors) and the word
".cpad" appended to the end of the brush name. For example, a picture named
mypicture would be saved as mypicture.cpad.
You can also design your own set of patterns to use with ColorPad, if
you own a paint program. The set of patterns, once designed, must be saved
to disk as a 32 by 80 pixel one bit plane brush, with each 16 by 16 pixel
segment of the brush a different pattern. The file must be called "patterns"
and must be located in the same directory as ColorPad.
To have your own set of colors save a blank five bitplane brush of any
size less than 320 by 200 to the same directory containing ColorPad and
name it 'colors'.
Warning: If you wish to design your own colors, patterns and pictures,
I suggest using a copy of the disk containing ColorPad in case you by
accident erase one of the ColorPad files.
If you plan to rearrange the ColorPad files, remember ColorPad,
patterns and colors files must be in the same directory or ColorPad won't
load.
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