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From: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Some Questions about DPaint I, II, or III
Message-ID: <7676@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 89 21:44:12 GMT
References: <21471@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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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....