NewTek Online
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Hey RAD, Based on this message, I have gone out and plunked down some
hard-earned money and ordered DigiP3.
Now, could you perhaps expound on some of the ARexx port's capabilities? Could
I for example, transfer values from a spreadsheet to Digi, which could thru the
ARexx port, draw a bar a certain height, pick it up as a brush, and create a
shaded version as well as the colored version, to do a drop-shadowed 3-d effect
bar chart?
Perhaps you could upload a file documenting some of the supported features?
–Gabe
I just started working with DigiPaint's (DP) AREXX stuff. The only
documentation is the demo program and the appendix listing the commands.
The descriptions seem too brief but each one is an exact duplicate of a
keyboard/mouse command. So the simple, but kinda' tedious, method is to
note each and every action you take to do something with the mouse then
find it's equivalent command. So, yes, you can do what you describe.
The only "gotcha" I've found is that when DP starts it has default tools
selected – for the mouse. A macro has no default tools so the must be
explicitly selected before you can draw.
An AREXX macro record feature would be dandy and oughta be trivial to make
if my hunch about DP's design is right. The control panel is a separate
screen and it's my guess that the control panel is a separate task that
sends those exact commands documented in the appendix to the rendering
task. It would be cake to also send those commands out to a text file. —