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****FOURTH CONTROL PANEL****
CURRENT FILL DISPLAY
The long panel at the extreme right of the control panels shows
the fill-pattern which is currently selected.
SHADOWED / BORDERED / FILLED
Select any or all of these when creating solid shapes. If none is
selected, everything you do appears as an unfilled outline.
A shape can be filled in white, which makes it a solid instead
of just an outline.
'Shadowed' will not work unless 'Filled' is also selected.
A filled shape can be borderless - the fill extends to where the
edge would be - this does not preclude it from being shadowed.
GRAPHIC MODES
In the box below the Settings Control Panel is a box offering four
graphic mode options. To change mode left-click on the box.
The graphic modes for drawing and moving items are:
Replace...............everything is opaque, you can only see
through outlines which are not filled.
Transparent...........all white parts are see-through.
Reverse Transparent...like transparent but all black parts have
been turned white and vice-versa.
XOR...................when black lands on black it turns white.
The shadow on a shape is black, so when shadowing is used in a
transparent graphic mode the shadow (which is an offset copy of
the shape, and lies behind it) will show through as a solid area,
as if the shadow and the drawn shape had swapped roles.
When placing text onto a picture the graphic mode affects the
appearance of the text.
'Special' fonts used while in Transparent and XOR modes have a
white background box fitting closely around each letter, its size
varies according to the individual letter's dimensions. In the
Replace and Reverse Transparent modes, all the letters sit on a
continuous white strip of uniform depth.
The 'System' font appears on a white strip when used in Replace
and mode; in Transparent mode there is no background box showing
at all; in Reverse Transparent there is white text on a black
strip but the text is transparent; and in XOR mode the black in
the letters turns white where it lands on a black area.