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From: eric@hector.UUCP (Eric Lavitsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How to make Dropcloth pix w/PIXmate
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Date: 7 Jan 88 22:09:49 GMT
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Reply-To: eric@hector (Eric Lavitsky)
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In article <2029@gryphon.CTS.COM> hrlaser@pnet02.UUCP writes:
>When we left Harv yesterday, he had posted some queries to Eric @ ASDG
>about how to convert various types of IFF pix to a format that Dropcloth2.0
>would like.  In the meantime, Harv asked some other folks, including
>... <stuff deleted>
>     Yes, I downloaded DropCloth and put it through it's paces.  I don't
>personally plan to use the program, but it _is_ cute and gives those
>arrogant Mac users something to think about.  I wish it would work
>automatically with interlaced Workbench -- currently it displays garbage on
>the bottom half of the screen if you try to dropcloth a 640x200 image on a
>640x400 Workbench.  Oh well, can't have everything, especially for free.
>

Harv and others trying to use the version of DropCloth I posted to
Comp.binaries.amiga:

My apologies all - I put in some last minute changes to DropCloth
before posting it without testing them first. As a result, there
are several bugs in the 2.2 binary. The Disk Icons will not be
correctly redrawn unless you specify a pattern to be drawn and
DropCloth attempts to ClipBlit a 640x200 image as a 640x400 image
in a 640x400 display (actually in any display larger than the image
size - it uses the size of the screen, not of the image for the
ClipBlit), thereby rendering garbage into the lower portion
of the display (640x400 images will work fine). I have a new version
of DropCloth ready that fixes these problems - I will be submitting
it to Comp.binaries.amiga and Fred Fish for distribution.

>So, Eric, I've pretty much answered my own question, but I'd still be
>interested in reading YOUR technique for creating Dropcloth-acceptable
>pictures, just to see how you did it with your sample pictures.
>

Sure thing - started up DPaint in 640x200x2 mode and loaded in some
pictures. I set the DPaint colors to be close to the default WorkBench 
colors and saved the images (I may have done a little touch up on one 
or two of them). Gee, and you went through all *that*! :-) 

Glad you had fun with DropCloth...

Cheers,
Eric

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