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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Introduction ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
WarPaint
WarPaint is a basic paint program for OS/2. It allows the user to work with
existing bitmaps or to create bitmaps from scratch. We consider it to be a
pixel paint program. One of the handier aspects of it is that you can zoom in
to a very high degree to do pixel by pixel changes. The OverView allows you to
select a small area to zoom in on as well.
WarPaint has been knocking around PillarSoft for about three years but has been
held from release by a couple of issues that may or may not affect most users.
If it is a major part of the reason you would be interested in purchasing the
PillarSoft Suite, please be sure it works satisfactorily in your case before
making any commitment.
Major bitmap formats supported by WarPaint are:
o BMP
o GIF
o PCX
o TIF
o TGA
There are other lesser known formats that WarPaint will work with but most are
so obscure that we won't mention them here.
The JPG format is not supported internally but because it is such an important
format we have made provisions for WarPaint to use cjpeg.exe and djpeg.exe (if
present) to convert JPG's into a temporary BMP file for viewing and editing.
The file may be saved as a JPG after editing but the quality is very poor at
this time. You will notice that it isn't quite seamless and native by the extra
time it takes to load the jpg's.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. Menu items ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Menu items
File
Edit
Selected
View
Tools
Help
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.1. File ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
File
New - Start a new editing session with a clean canvas.
Open - Open a bitmap and load it.
Save - Save the current bitmap.
Save as - Save the current bitmap under a new name or format.
Print - Print the bitmap.
Capture screen - more...
Convert to B/W - Convert currently loaded bitmap to a two color (black and
white) bitmap.
Exit - Exit the program
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.2. Edit ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Edit
Undo - Undoes last operation
Cut - Cuts currently selected area to clipboard
Copy - Copies currently selected area to clipboard
Paste - Pastes currently selected area from clipboard
Clear - Deletes currently selected area
Select all - Selects all of the canvas area
Select none - Deselects any previous selection
Font - Sets font to be used with the "Text" tool
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.3. Selected ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Selected
Crop - Removes all areas outside of the currently selected area and resets the
canvas to show only the selected area as the current graphic.
Flip - Allows the user to flip the selected area horizontally or vertically.
Rotate - Allows the user to rotate the selected area 90, 180 or 270 degrees.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.4. View ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
View
Tool Palette - Turns the Tool Palette on or off. (more on the Tool Palette)
Color Palette - Turns the Color Palette on or off. (more on the Color Palette)
Image Settings - Opens the Image Settings window. (more on Image Settings)
Full Screen - Selecting this or pressing F3 stretches the loaded bitmap to a
full screen view. Press <escape> to close this view and return to WarPaint.
OverView - Opens the OverView window where the user can select any area of the
loaded bitmap to zoom in on by drawing a box around it.
Zoom in - Zooms the view of the loaded bitmap by 2 times it's present size.
Zoom out - Zooms the view out on the loaded bitmap by half it's present size.
Actual size - Returns the loaded bitmap to it's actual size in the editing window.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.5. Tools ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Tools Menu
The Tools menu selection is much like the Tool Palette with the added option of
choosing Brush, eraser and spray styles and shapes.
The tools are selected by clicking on them, like any other menu item would be
selected. Your cursor should change to whatever tool you have chosen.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.6. Help ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Help
Not much to tell you here. Pretty much self-explanatory.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. General help ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
General help
Tool Palette
Color Palette
Image Settings
Screen Capture
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3.1. Tool Pallette ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Tool Palette
The Tool Palette allows the user to select the tool he would like to be active
while he is making his next change to the current graphic.
Like the Color Palette you may resize the Tool Palette to your preference and
the size should be saved for future reference when you close the application.
The Tool Palette selections are:
Select - The selector tool. Used to outline areas for other operations. A
single click of the selector tool will automatically outline irregular areas if
the are a constant color.
Lasso - Another selection tool that allows drawing and irregular area to be
copied or moved etc.
Pen - Used to draw lines or separate pixels.
Brush - Used to draw in a larger scale. Brush sizes and shapes may be selected
from the "Tools" menu.
Erase - Erases an area. Eraser sizes and shapes may be selected from the
"Tools" menu.
Extract - The eyedropper is used to retrieve the exact color being used in any
given area.
Spray - Works like a can of spray paint. Patterns may be selected from the
"Tools" menu.
Text - Allows the user to type text into a graphic. Text size and font may be
selected from the "Edit" --> "Font" menu items.
Fill - Flood fills an area on the canvas. This doesn't always seem to work to
well unless it is filling over white.
Line - Draws a line. Mouse button down, move to line end and release the mouse button.
Rect - Draws a rectangle. Mouse button down, move to opposite corner and
release the mouse button.
Round - Draws a rectangle with rounded corners. Mouse button down, move
opposite corner and release the mouse button.
Diam - Draws a diamond shape. Mouse button down, move to diamond end and
release the mouse button.
Ellipse - Draws circles and ellipses. Mouse button down for center, move mouse
give desired shape and size and release the mouse button.
Line Attr - Opens the Line Attributes dialog. Set your line width, choose a
line type or select an arrow end for a line.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3.2. Color Pallette ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Color Palette
The color Palette contains a color wheel or a sixteen color value set depending
on how it is toggled by the button at the base of the Palette.
Any click on either of these palettes will change the working color in use to
whatever is selected.
Like the Tool Palette you may resize the Color Palette to your preference and
the size should be saved for future reference when you close the application.
The "Pattern selector" on the bottom half of the Palette allows the user to
choose whether a square or circle tool, for example, will draw in a solid
color, an outline with the selected color or some type of hash with the
selected color.
The Pattern selector has been a bone of contention in some of our tests. It
works fine on some machines but on a machine with an S3 ViRGE it has been very troublesome.
For this reason, it is not turned on by default but is available to be tested
or used by using the /P parameter when starting WarPaint.
To do this you must:
Open the WarPaint desktop object properties by right clicking the icon and
selecting "Properties."
Enter /P in the "Optional Parameters" field.
Close the desktop object.
Start the program.
Note: It has shown itself to be troublesome here after a fresh reboot but seems
to work OK after some unspecified period of time. We are baffled by the
behavior and wish to avoid problems but wanted it to be available to those of
you that may have no problems with it. (as it is on every other machine we
tested on)
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3.3. Image Settings ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Image Settings
There are three pages in the Image settings notebook.
o Attributes - Sets the image size and bits per pixel. You may set any size
in the fields and the program will stretch or squish the bitmap to the size
desired. The bit per pixel settings are:
1 bit - 2 color (Black and white)
4 bit - 16 color
8 bit - 256 color
16 bit - 65k color
o Grid - Overlays a grid on the canvas to aid in spacing things properly.
Snap to grid will make all new work start and end on the gridlines.
o Line styles - Allows the user to set a line type, line size, use arrow ends
and set arrow sizes on all new lines.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3.4. Screen Capture ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Screen Capture
This is a very simple screen capture. When selected, WarPaint will minimize
itself and after a three second wait, it will snap a picture of the screen and
return you to the program with the screen capture loaded.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. Known Problems ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Known problems
The pattern selector can be quite flaky and does not work on at least one
machine here with an S3 card immediately after a clean boot.
After a fresh reboot, any programmatic selection of the pattern selector causes
a trap in PmMerge.dll. If we do not select it programmatically, it will run but
manually selecting a pattern can cause the program to become unresponsive.
After some unknown amount of time it seems to work fine but we have disabled it
to avoid problems.
It can be enabled by starting WarPaint with the /P parameter. This can be
accomplished by doing the following:
1. Open the WarPaint desktop object properties by right clicking the icon and
selecting "Properties."
2. Enter /P in the "Optional Parameters" field.
3. Close the desktop object.
4. Start the program.
The pattern selector is actually an important tool because it is the only way
for the user to toggle between drawing outlines of circles, squares etc or
drawing them filled with color.
If you happen to select a pattern and the cursor disappears or the program
becomes unresponsive, press the Control-Escape key combination and end the
program immediately. The more time you try to make it work, the longer it will
take to kill it.
More about it in Color Palette.
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The Fill tool works fine on an empty canvas but seems to have trouble filling
over any color.
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When doing a Screen Capture, the Tool Palette and the Color Palette will move.
We will be addressing this in upcoming releases but please keep in mind that
the "standard" applications in the suite will probably receive attention
earlier than any of the "Bonus" type apps like WarPaint.