folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) (05/16/91)
I just noticed another cool touch: CMD-Shift-3 dumps the screen, in full living-color. The document it creates is TeachText double-clickable, too. Thus, TeachText handles color PICTs. When you dump the screen (apparently not with a menu down, however), you hear the click of a camera. Nice. -- Wayne Folta (folta@cs.umd.edu 128.8.128.8)
rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe) (05/16/91)
In article <34510@mimsy.umd.edu> folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes: > TeachText handles color PICTs. TeachText became *much* more useful in System 7. It does indeed display PICT files now, as well as generic TEXT files and its own 'ttro' files. When displaying a PICT, you can make a rectangle selection and copy it into the clipboard to be pasted into your other apps. And another System 7 feature is especially useful with TeachText: if an app knows about a certain kind of document, you can just drag the document icon onto the app icon, like dropping a file into a folder, and the app will launch and open the file. So I keep an alias to TeachText in an always-open window, and now I can read any text file or view any PICT file just by dragging it onto the TeachText alias. Spiffy! I've thrown out my generic-text-editor DAs. ========================================================================== Rick Holzgrafe | {sun,voder,nsc,mtxinu,dual}!apple!rmh Software Engineer | AppleLink HOLZGRAFE1 rmh@apple.com Apple Computer, Inc. | "All opinions expressed are mine, and do 20525 Mariani Ave. MS: 3-PK | not necessarily represent those of my Cupertino, CA 95014 | employer, Apple Computer Inc."
philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) (05/16/91)
In article <34510@mimsy.umd.edu>, folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes: |> I just noticed another cool touch: CMD-Shift-3 dumps the screen, in full |> living-color. The document it creates is TeachText double-clickable, too. |> Thus, TeachText handles color PICTs. When you dump the screen (apparently |> not with a menu down, however), you hear the click of a camera. Nice. You've only seen half of it. You can select rectangular sections and copy them (great for making icons). My IIcx has a portrait monochrome screen and a 19" colour screen, and the CMD-Shift-3 dump was a complete image of both screens as a continuous bitmap. Teachtext is a bit slow about manipulating the resulting 300K bitmaps (but Apple has to sell the fx somehow?). It can now open any PICT format file, but with no editing capability. -- Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu