The integrated painting features of Bitmap2LCD are in a way very similar to the popular Windows MSPaint program. It allows drawing and painting simple shapes, lines and writing text on the work canvas. The choice of fonts is just limited by the choice of the installed system fonts, system folder which is easily upgradeable with additional fonts that can be found on the internet, brought as software add on packages in multimedia stores or generated by an external font editor.
Texts can be written to a transparent stencil frame which does not affect background pixels and then be moved afterwards to its definitive canvas location. (Move pressed mouse in frame and drag the frame)
Selected areas can be cut, copied or transparent copied (transparent means only the black pixels) to a transparent stencil, and then be moved and pasted to the desired location. Selected canvas parts can be inverted , resized, oriented or deleted.
Selected canvas part can be exported as new item to the graphic library, or used to generate a partial display field update in a table of constants. (Please read subject: about paging scheme... )
Smaller than canvas size graphic items imported from the library can be moved and pasted to at any location of the work canvas.
Resizing or changing orientation of the image in the selected area or the resizing of items imported from the graphic library, the contiguous pixels area selection possibilites are features only available with the shareware package release.
List of drawing and painting options and functions :
Single pixel set/toggle, painting by moving mouse, line, square, rectangle, square and rectangle with defined edge radius, circle, ellipse, fill shape, mouse box colour changes when orthogonal shape pixel reached, define line width, define line/outline colour and fill/brush colour, undo, redo, back to original picture, select black/white level balance to convert imported grey scale/colour pictures, resize imported picture to fit in canvas size, draw circular and square shapes by hiting the Shift key, display or full page cross hairs cursor to ease alignments of shapes...
