Re: Platinum Paint 2.1?

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In article <12APR199616195686@vax2.concordia.ca>,
spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) writes:

>
>In article gareth@vcn.bc.ca (Gareth Jones) writes...

>>If someone does have the most recent version (or a more recent version)
>>please try the following and let me know what happens. Select all of a
>>page-size graphic by triple clicking on the marquee tool, then choose
>>"flip horizontal." If the program freezes solid, then the bug I want to
>>have fixed still exists, and I don't have to search on.

     This bug seems to have been fixed as of 2.0.1. I tried both
full-window and full-screen flips.

>
>.... Another bug I just came across recently (among countless others)
>is pasting large images from the clipboard. For some reason anything
larger
>than the window your using is chopped! When it's first pasted with the
moving
>square marquee outline around the image, it's fine. As soon as you click
the
>mouse button to paste it in though the rest of the image disappears!
>(scrolling anywhere outside the window). ....

     With very few exceptions, Platinum Paint sticks to the 'What you see
...' rule, especially when operating in a window. It is possible to paste
full-screen and even larger selections by going to full-screen mode before
'setting' the selection on the target document.

Note: My tests were done with Auto Select and Full-Screen Undo active.

    There is no question that PP still does not like to deal with very
large Cut/Paste selections. Sometimes the program will bomb (freeze-up).
There is a 'big selection' bug.

    Despite such glitches, Version 2.0.1 is certainly a significant
improvement over 1.0.5. 'Warts and all', Platinum Paint is a very good
graphics utility and, easily, the best IIgs painter. Perhaps the
programmer, Matthew Reimer, will do some fixes and release the patches.  


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