jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) (07/28/89)
It was driving me nuts! I had used DigiView to create several pictures of 320 by 200 by 32 colors, and every time I read them into Dpaint, it would put up a requester asking if I wanted to change the screen format to match that of the picture. I would say YES, but loading another picture produced the same darn requester. "But it's already in that mode!" After fooling around with the Page Size, the problem became obvious. Dpaint-III would not allow me to select height of less than 217. And where did it get that number? It's the size of my WorkBench screen. (I have "morerows -rows 17 -columns 32".) I guess it was designed to be a feature (to automatically use the taller screen on PAL systems), but it should have set the lower limit to 200, not to the Workbench height. I called Electronic Arts - it had been reported already. Their advise is what you'd expect: "Boot from a disk that doesn't have morerows". Grumble. I wish there was a way to tell Dpaint how much of the picture to save. I want it to save it as a small picture (instead of as a brush) and the option to specify the size as either a set of numeric coordinates or by using the mouse. -- Joe Smith (408)922-6220 | SMTP: JMS@F74.TYMNET.COM or jms@tymix.tymnet.com McDonnell Douglas FSCO | UUCP: ...!{ames,pyramid}!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms PO Box 49019, MS-D21 | PDP-10 support: My car's license plate is "POPJ P," San Jose, CA 95161-9019 | narrator.device: "I didn't say that, my Amiga did!"