PBgraphs – Original documentation
Index:
Other
commands in PBgraphs
Thank you very
much for downloading this software. You should read this documentation before
you use the software if I where you. PBgraphs is a graphic design software,
which I would like to keep in progress, so I’ve decided too develop it
open-source, so everybody who wants can change it. This is the original
documentation of the previous version of this software (updated for this
version) so it’s possible that screenshots/graphics are old or removed. It is
also possible that some descriptions are incorrect now, but I’m sure you can
find out by your self then. One more thing about the files: it is possible to
load files from previous versions if you give them the same name as one of the
current graphic files (graphic*.grp *=number 0 to 9) but you can’t load files
from this version into older versions.
First
release buttons:
Screenshot…
Close
Load/Save
Tool menu
dots
line
open rectangle
closed rectangle
fill up
Choose color
Second release buttons:
Mask (in
tools menu below fill up)
PAL (in
the right of the tool menu button)
Button descriptions:
Close:
When you click on this button it will close the
program and return to the OS you started PBgraphs in.
Load/Save:
-When you click with the left mouse button on
this button, it will save the graphic you see on your screen (you can choose a
number to save it under).
-When you click on this button with the right
mouse button, it will open a menu where you can choose a number of the graphic
you’d like to load (WILL CLOSE THE OPENED GRAPHIC WITHOUT SAVING!!!).
Tool menu:
When you click on this button a menu with tools
will be opened below this button.
Dots:
When you click on this button out of the tools
menu, and you click somewhere in the graphic, there will appear a pixel on the
place of the mouse-cursor. The color of the pixel will depend on the selected
color. This tool is standard configured when you start the software.
Line:
The line tool works like this:
First you click on the place where the line
needs to start, then you click on the place where the line must end, then the
computer will draw a (curving) line between those points. This tool still
contains a lot of bugs.
Open rectangle:
This tool works like this:
First click on the place where should be the
first corner of the open rectangle, then click on the place of the other site
of the rectangle, then the computer will draw the rectangle between those two
points.
Closed rectangle:
Works the same as open rectangle, but the rectangle
will be filled with the selected color.
Fill up:
Fills up the color you click on with the
selected color. There are still a lot of bugs in this tool now only half (as
average) the zone with the color you clicked on will be filled up with this color.
Mask:
When you click on a pixel in your graphic (and
it’s not the same color as the selected color) it will change all pixels in
your graphic with that color into the selected color.
PAL:
Palette button, will open a menu with some
functions related to the palette:
0.Cancel àWill close the menu without doing anything
(accept sometimes loading the original palette of the opened graphic, depending
on the situation).
1.Open standard palette à opens PBGraphs.pal (standard palette of this
software version)
2.Open standard palette of previous versions à Opens DIV.pal (standard palette of all
versions older then this one)
3.Make new palette à Will close opened graphic without saving, and
allows you to create your own palette, witch will be saved with the graphic
you’ll make after (If you won’t load a different palette
first)
4.Random palette à will generate a palette with random colors
(with this function it’s possible that you (hardly) can see objects on your
screen).
Choose color:
In the right of the tool button, when you click
on a pixel on this button, that will be the selected color. But you also can
select a color by clicking with the right mouse button on a color in the opened
graphic. On the right of this button you can see witch color is selected.
When you want to draw a rectangle (just in
lines) it will be 2 pixels wider and higher then you ordered the PC to be.
When you use the fill up command it’s possible
that some “unreachable” places will not be filled up with the color, I hope to
salve this later.
When you want to draw a line, it gets curved.
Other commands in PBgraphs:
When you click with your right mouse button on
a pixel in the graphic, you select the color that pixel has.
You can exit by pressing Escape.
In the edit palette part of the program you can
edit the palette by this:
-Click on a color on the big palette.
You can see the selected color to edit in the
left of the palette (number and color)
-Use the 3 switches (on the right of the
palette) to change the value’s of the color (left=red, middle=green,
right=blue)
-You can use Space to return to the draw
section, but not saved graphics, will be gone now...
Notes:
This option can cause loose of screen quality
as long as you run the program! It also can mess up the file-system of this
program!
License:
This software is absolutely free, and there may not be asked any form of payment for giving/removing/moving/deleting/installing/editing/etc. this software. All documentation with this software should stay with this software, this means that after a while there can be a lot of documentation with this software, so if there will be more then 10 text files with it, then they should get in a different directory then this text file, though they should stay with the game. (This is just a suggestion.) I’d like it if you tell me if you edit the software but you don’t have to, the project is open source, and must stay open source even when you have edited it. If you use new graphics in this software, you must have made them on your own, and you may not add copyright to them. You may not include copyright to any part of this program not even when you have edited it. If you don’t agree with this, then just make some software on your own.
This software is made in DIV Games Studio, if you don’t own a licensed copy of DIV Games Studio, and you want to edit this software, then but DIV Games Studio, for it is worth your money!
Websites worth your visit:
http://members.tripodnet.nl/pbgames