#Coordnates for IP
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Yeah, I see the difficulty in doing the brushes….and your description of
having trouble working with two magnified images was clear too….
Do you use Rexx? (or have it installed in your system?) If so, then some
of your coordinate work might be simplified, as well as getting accurate
cutouts from different images.
If you'd like help with some ARexx macros to do this stuff, I'd be glad to
work on them for you. Let me know. Anything to keep you turning out that
great work!
–jp–seattle–
Thanks, John.
Ben
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I'm lazy about Rexx. I've got it together to make a hot key toggle between,
luma display, quickie color and the Hi-Q Ham-E display. You want to write
me a rexx macro that will do the coords? I'd rather be painting then
reading my rexx manual and the bazillion rexx commands in IP.
Explain what you mean by an ARexx macro that will do 'coords', and I'll be
glad to help as best I can.
I was specifically thinking of the problem you mentioned where you wanted
to cut the exact same (coord) section out of several images. (right?) You
could do that w/ARexx, by defining the region you wanted (via coords) and
then clipping them out of several images. Since one would have the coords
of the clip, one could even erase/reload the parent buffer and still be
able to put it back exactly where you wanted…. (would need to
experiment, but it sounds easy enough to do)
(Ben: while thinking of this I realized that while it's easy to figure out
the width and height, memory use and parent NAME of a child buffer, it is
not possible to figure out WHERE it came from. (ie. the top/left x,y
coordinate of the child buffer in the parent buffer) Could this be added
to the buffer info that is returned? Or have I missed it?) — you know,
if you DID keep the top/left coords of where the child was cut, you could
allow the user to automatically put that buffer back into any pic at that
location. User would not need to keep the parent around any longer in
order to do a RESTORE TO PARENT, would they? Worth a shot….
Anyway, if you want, tell me what you have in mind, and we'll go from
there. (BTW, like your Iguana pic…. nice job with the blends!)
–jp–seattle–
Yep – that's information you could certainly use. I'll see to it.
–Ben
Most of the time I using rub-thru on identical sized screen so coords for
one should get things in position to take the clip on the next one. That's
what I need.