Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!oliveb!amiga!cbmvax!higgin 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 Lines: 42 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....