harrow@exodus.dec.com (07/09/86)
A recent suggestion in one of the Digests indicated that Full Paint (a super MacPaint from Ann Arbor Software) has a different creator field than MacPaint and hence won't be launched if a MacPaint document files is double-clicked (MacPaint gets opened, instead). He recommended changing the creator-field on the document files from MacPaint's MPNT to FullPaint's PANT, perhaps even changing the applications that create the picture files to do this as a default. What I'm wondering is why not change the creator field of FULLPAINT, itself from PANT to MPNT? If MacPaint is NOT on the disk (and I don't recall anything that MacPaint can do that FullPaint won't), wouldn't this work as well, and only require ONE change, not multiple changes to all picture-creating applications? And now a question of my own: Full Paint seems to be an excellent superset of MacPaint, but the one thing I expected and can't seem to get working is automatic scrolling of the window when the mouse hits the edge. For instance, if I have a part of the picture displayed and want to "Select" an area larger than that displayed, I "should" be able to just run the mouse into the appropriate edge of the window and have the window's contents scroll away, bringing the new material into the window, with my selection rectangle continuing to grow to encompass it. Am I doing something wrong? Jeff
harrow@exodus.dec.com (08/05/86)
I recently had a chance to play with FullPaint, a superset of MacPaint including the ClickArt Effects capabilities, 4 windows, full screen editing, etc. It was very nice but I couldn't seem to get it to do autoscrolling of the picture when I was attempting to select a larger-than-on-screen portion of a picture with the marquee rectangle (this is a function often seen in specialized DAs and programs like PaintCutter). FullPaint is so good that I can't imagine that this capability was NOT put in there, but I couldn't figure out how to get it to work, and I'm not buying until I find out for sure, since there are apparently several other good MacPaint supersets coming along soon. Any ideas? Also, there was an option called "Mouse Crawl". Does anyone know that this is supposed to do? Jeff