Re: ANN: bitmap shape capture for 8-bit graphics

[Anthony Lawther <alawtherNOSPAM@SPAMMENOT.westnet.com.au>]

In article <1137467459.596026.257280@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
 aiiadict@gmail.com wrote:

> DONE:
> 
> moveable shape preview window,
> "clipboard" view window (moveable)
> select lasso,
> copy and
> paste commands.
> 
> 
> select lasso is now in assembly, stores directly to graphics RAM
> instead
> of HPLOT
> 
> interesting things I found  out:
> 
> 1) make sure test program loads the @@#$%  ylookup table!  spent hours
> on this mistake
> 2) you cannot capture (without workarounds) CONTROL-C from a basic
> program...  I added
> IF A$=chr$(3) do this....       unfortunately Control-C (copy) doesn't
> ever make it to BASIC, because
> it breaks a basic program

That'd be why lots of programs that want to do this sort of thing use 
the Open and Closed Apple keys as modifiers not the Control key. Even 
the Mac didn't (and still doesn't) use the Control modifier key for 
these functions but uses the Command (Open Apple) key.

> 3)hard copies sure are nice.  a long printout and a pen solved many
> problems I was having
> 
> 
> Ok....   I'll call it Capture1.0
> 
> have fun,
> 
> Rich