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Brick Nash · 02 October 2017, 21:30

I'm having a bit of an issue with PPAint. I loaded up a sprite sheet and it's a fair size which makes the toolbox/palette and the menu disappear.

Now I can get to the menu ok by right clicking the top of the screen, but I can only access the toolbox/palette via the key commands. I have the manual for Dpaint IV and it says pushing F10 hides and brings up the toolbox but it does nothing.

The thing is, with the key commands I can't tell which colour I've selected for the foreground and background.

The command for choosing Frg and Bkg colours is a bit vague [,] for foreground and {,} for background, but I need to choose specific colours from the toolbox palette which aren't on the screen so I don't know how I'm supposed to be able to do that if I can't see nor interact with the toolbox.

Is there a way to permanently have the menu and the toolbox on the screen and just use cursor key scrolling to get around large images? It would make life so much easier.

Thanks!

02 October 2017, 21:30	#1
Brick Nash Prototron Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 411	PPaint, large image and toolbox I'm having a bit of an issue with PPAint. I loaded up a sprite sheet and it's a fair size which makes the toolbox/palette and the menu disappear. Now I can get to the menu ok by right clicking the top of the screen, but I can only access the toolbox/palette via the key commands. I have the manual for Dpaint IV and it says pushing F10 hides and brings up the toolbox but it does nothing. The thing is, with the key commands I can't tell which colour I've selected for the foreground and background. The command for choosing Frg and Bkg colours is a bit vague [,] for foreground and {,} for background, but I need to choose specific colours from the toolbox palette which aren't on the screen so I don't know how I'm supposed to be able to do that if I can't see nor interact with the toolbox. Is there a way to permanently have the menu and the toolbox on the screen and just use cursor key scrolling to get around large images? It would make life so much easier. Thanks!