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From: kensy@microsoft.UUCP (Ken SYKES)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Using GIF`s as wallpaper
Message-ID: <55268@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 90 23:01:12 GMT
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In article <1990Jun14.143736.25369@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones) writes:
>I had the mentioned problem of things getting clipped when pasted into
>pbrush from the clipboard. I found by accident that if you zoom out then paste
>you get the whole thing BUT I had to paste twice for some strange reason that
>I admit I just haven't looked into properly.

This is a much confused issue because the user interface is too complicated.
When viewing/editing a picture in the Normal View (not zoomed out or in)
EVERYTHING is clipped to the window, including pasting.  To paste larger
images you must Zoom Out first as mentioned above.  When something is
pasted while zoomed out a rectangle the size of the image is placed in the
upper-left corner of the image.  You can move inside the rectangle and
drag it around just like the scissor tools in normal mode.  When the
rectangle is positioned, click *outside* of the rectangle to paste the
image down, just like the scissors in normal mode.  Selecting paste again
works "by accident" since Pasting will force the current object to be 
pasted down.  All of this is documented in the manual, but it is a little
obtuse.

This will probably be one of the most common confusion for Paintbrush
users.

--Ken Sykes

The opinions expressed are mine and not those of my employer.