#Deluxe Paint has shippe
15-Dec-85 03:06:53
Sb: #1698-#Deluxe Paint has shippe
Fm: Kim DeVaughn 76535,25
To: Michael Mounier 70366,307
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Michael … thanks! I had heard that, but had forgotten. This is not the
end to the story though. I tried out GraphiCraft V1.0 (the released version)
today. DPaint has no trouble picking up a picture generated by GraphiCraft
… the picture comes up right away.
If you try bringing up something that was saved by DPaint under GraphiCraft,
there are a couple of anomolies.
First, when you open the GraphiCraft floppy, you see the EA picture icon
(assuming the picture was at the :root level) instead of the GraphiCraft
icon. You can't click the picture open. OK, so we open GraphiCraft itself,
click the Project menu and select Open Painting … only the stuff that has
GraphiCraft icons are listed. Well, let's try the "type in line" … ah ha,
it finds the picture … the cursor goes to "Please Wait", and stays there a
looooonnnng time (the drive light is lit all this time, but the drive is
making *no* noise) … I thought the system had crashed, but then poof … up
comes the picture!
I saved the picture right away, got out of GraphiCraft, and closed it's
window. Reopened GraphiCraft, and the DPaint pictures now have a Graphi-
Craft icon, can be clicked up, and take the normal amount of time to load.
Of course neither program mentions anything about IFF, importing "foreign"
pictures, etc. 'Twill be interesting to see what IFF is all about, and why
it could take GraphiCraft about 6-8 times as long to load a "foreign"
picture. Any thoughts?
/kim