truemanc@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Trueman) (06/17/91)
I've just had a look through the FormEd program and found that there is code there to handle a toolbox window and windows for listing all sprites etc ... Was this meant for a second version or whatever? Any ideas anyone? - Chris.
dahe@cl.cam.ac.uk (David Elworthy) (06/18/91)
In article <truemanc.677155344@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> truemanc@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Trueman) writes: >I've just had a look through the FormEd program and found that there >is code there to handle a toolbox window and windows for listing all sprites >etc ... > >Was this meant for a second version or whatever? > >Any ideas anyone? > > > - Chris. No - it's from a zeroth version. The toolbox was used for editing sprites before Paint had been written. Paint does it better, so this stuff was dropped. -- david elworthy
hughesmp@vax1.tcd.ie (06/19/91)
In article <truemanc.677155344@p4.cs.man.ac.uk>, truemanc@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Trueman) writes: > I've just had a look through the FormEd program and found that there > is code there to handle a toolbox window and windows for listing all sprites > etc ... > > Was this meant for a second version or whatever? Well, version 2.84b (Info -> Author: Acorn / The RISC Squad) has a simple paint-style sprite editor built in, and as such, has a window with all the sprites known to Formed in it, so presumably this is what you are referring to.. It is considerably enhanced from the like of version 1.02 (16 Nov 89), with a date of 01 Mar 91... Looking through the rather confusing documentation, it may not be an Acorn-licensed upgrade, the Help file just starts as a list of updates from verions 2.80, so maybe Acorn released 2.80 and these guyz did more to it... It certainly is _much_ nicer to use than 1.02, and has been made a lot more intuitive, although it still doesn't query quitting with unsaved, changed work.. Comments from Acorn?? What is the latest Acorn release of FormEd? Merlin. --SICK-- Chew on my flesh with perverted lust, Display to me the depth of your compassion.
Julian.Wright@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Julian Wright) (06/19/91)
In article <truemanc.677155344@p4.cs.man.ac.uk>, truemanc@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Trueman) writes: |> I've just had a look through the FormEd program and found that there |> is code there to handle a toolbox window and windows for listing all |> sprites etc ... |> |> Was this meant for a second version or whatever? Actually it was in use in a _previous_ version... then around about when RISC OS was released, a version of FormEd was also released with the sprite editing features removed from the menu. The code for them was still there (it has been there all along). I believe the reasoning behind this was that Acorn preferred people to use !Paint to edit their sprites. The sprite editing inside the current !FormEd looks _very_ similar to what !Paint provides. It is possible to insert the editing functions back into !FormEd by de-REMming the appropriate lines and adding a couple of items to a menu string... there was an item about it in an Archive a while ago. A slightly modified version of !FormEd was passed out with Simon Huntingdon's Interface module (brillient piece of software that!) to make editing 'Interface' templates easier. Unfortunately it only coped with the extra 'slabbing' facilities Interface provides, and not the pointer shape changing or interactive help. So I modified it again to add these. Cheers, Julian. -- ;`````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````; ; I would if I could but I can't so I won't but I might if I find I can later ; ;,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,; jwright@comp.vuw.ac.nz|julian@sideways.welly.gen.nz|julian@bridge.welly.gen.nz