C475141@umcvmb.missouri.edu (BRIAN WHITMAN) (08/11/89)
My wife has take an intrest in quilting and I am not one that likes to finish a 3 month or longer project and find out that I don't like something about it. This can happen very easily with piecing a quilt. When you get finished you might decide that you don't like the colors or the pattern after all. So how does DPaint fit in? you ask read on. I thought that if she would be able to create the quilt on the screen and change the colors of pieces then she might avoid that problem. My questions are as follows. 1. Will DPaint allow the user to copy parts of the picture to another part. For example if I draw a triangle and want to place a copy of that triangle somewhere else in the picture can I select only the triangle and then move it? 2. Does DPaint have the capabilities of inverting, and turning a marked piece. 3. If I have 3000 hexagons on my picture that are of 3 colors can the user change all 1000 hexagons of color x to color y with 1 click. or change of the pallete. 4. Can the picture be shrank and enlarged, sections magnified. 5. How large a picture can you draw with DPaint. If you can answer any or all of these questions I would appreciate it very much. I might have more questions later. Thanks again Brian Whitman C475141@UMCVMB C475141@UMCVMB.Missouri.edu UC475141@UMCVMB UC475141@UMCVMB.Missouri.edu
higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom) (08/16/89)
In article <21471@louie.udel.EDU> C475141@umcvmb.missouri.edu (BRIAN WHITMAN) writes:
$[A quilting application...wondering if DPaint might help...]
$1. Will DPaint allow the user to copy parts of the picture to another
$ part.
Yes. A cut-out piece of a picture is called a brush.
$ For example if I draw a triangle and want to place a copy
$ of that triangle somewhere else in the picture can I select only
$ the triangle and then move it?
Yes, each shape is not an object, but what you could do is have the
shapes as clip art on a separate screen, and pick them off it as
needed. To move a tile, you could either pick it up as an
irregular (not square) brush, or you could just fill it with background
color and then pick a copy of it off the clip art screen.
$2. Does DPaint have the capabilities of inverting, and turning a
$ marked piece.
Yes - brushes can be rotated, flipped, sized, colored, etc.
$3. If I have 3000 hexagons on my picture that are of 3 colors can the
$ user change all 1000 hexagons of color x to color y with 1 click.
$ or change of the pallete.
Yup - color exchanges and so on are a snap.
$4. Can the picture be shrank and enlarged, sections magnified.
Yes.
$5. How large a picture can you draw with DPaint.
Not sure - certainly bigger than the screen, and then you scroll
around. You have a screen size, and a page size.
Good luck - an Amiga sounds ideal for this application.
Paul.
P.S. - now if I can just convince a few thousand Amish people nearby
here to use 'em....hcmutt@hpcllld.HP.COM (Harry Muttart) (08/17/89)
Seems that there is a limit on the size of picture that DPAINT can manipulate. Based upon limitations of the blitter in Amiga 1000's. (1Kx1K?) Does anyone know if larger areas will be handled in DPAINT once the newer blitter comes along (1.4)? Harry