

And now lets draw

Please click on the icon for free hand drawing
(this is the pencil in the second field of the
first menu board). This icon exists inverted
and that indicates that the drawing modus is
activated. Now you can set points on the
drawing area with the cursor, by clicking the
right hand key of the mouse or the joystick
button once you are on the right place. When
you move around with the mouse by pressing the
mouse key you are able to draw any kind of
figure. Even when you move the mouse quickly
you will get a coherent line, so that you
could store the figures produced by using the
fill order.

If you want to set heavier lines or points,
click the brush next to the penc2il and draw
with it. A quicker mouse movement causes then
a little bit a broken line not usable for
filling.

Now try to set a point where there is already
one. You will see that the mark disappears.
When you move around the screen while pressing
the mouse key, the brush will erase all prior
points over which you are moving. You notice
the brush became an eraser and it stays like
this till you stop pressing the mouse key.

That means that with the free drawing option
you can set points or erase without switching
menus. If you get in the wrong modus by
mistake - erase instead of draw or the other
way round - you just press the mouse key a
second time.





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If there is no room left for your experiments
anymore because you have drawn everywhere on
the monitor you just click on the trashcan and
you have a clean screen again.

And now, please draw something nice, for
example a portrait of your friend, your
partner, dad and mum or of whom ever you like.
Are you good enough now to produce a work of
art like this self portrait of the author
			
Erase?

While drawing the portrait you perhaps found
	
that you were quite content with the face
already, but the ears were not satisfactory.
You perhaps erased the ears point by point in
order to draw them again. There is a simplier
way: With the help of the undo order which
erases the last manipulation.

And what is the last manipulation? With
lines, rectangles or circles it is quite
clear, undo erases the last line, the last
rectangle or the last circle. But with
drawing? The last point? That wouldnt be
wise. Here you have to help Handyscan.
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Click again the pencil or the brush to define
the operation which Handyscan should erase
with undo. Again the portrait example: Being
content with the face, you already click on
the brush before drawing the ears. If you
dont like the ears now, you click undo and
they are gone again. But if you like them you
	click the brush again for saving and go on
drawing.
Generally, Undo works with the free drawing
and with the sprite commands and the spraying
function right back to the last input.
Clicking on the brush is a command and it
limits the memory of the undo order.

You have to click another command in between
operations so that undo doesnt go too far
backwards and erases the whole portrait. By
all other drawing modes, however, like lines,
rectangles, ellipses, filling, moving, texting
or zoom, only the last segment is erased.

If you clicked the trashcan on by a mistake
you can also restore a monitor already cleared
with the undo.


More monitors

Until now you have only drawn on one screen.
But you certainly know already that Handyscan
has a capacity of 640+400 points that means 4
screens full.

Now we want to look at these 4 screens. First
we load a big picture in the memory so that
the screen doesnt look empty (empty screens
	mare boring, dont you think so!).


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To do this, please put the program disk in the
disk drive and click the left one of the three
disk symbols; its the one on which the arrow
points from the disk to the monitor.

Handyscan shows you now the table of contents
of the chosen disk. If it has got a length
which doesnt fit in the screen, you can go
further by pressing the space bar, or the
lefthand mouse key. And you can interrupt the
input by pressing the stop key which returns
you to the graphic screen immediately.
We want to load now the file "Schlumpf.GB".
Look for this file in the table of contents
and put the cursor on it with the mouse,
joystick or the cursor keys (the cursor beam
has to be under the first letter of the name)
and click it on with the right hand mouse key,
the joystick or RETURN. Now Handyscan wants
to know whether you want to load the picture
or mix it. The picture on the disk would be
overlayed with the one in the screen, if you
take mixing, otherwise if you take load the
picture of the disk overlays the one in the
memory. Here too you click the desired option
- in our case load with the mouse, joystick
or keys.

The picture is now filed and when Handyscan
has finished, you will first see only a part
of the Schlumpf. To see the rest of the
Schlumpf you can move the visible screen like
a window over the whole content of the file.
In order to do that, click on one of the four
thick arrows in the menu. As long as the
mouse key remains depressed the screen scrolls
over the file and stops until you release the
mouse key or the screen reaches the end of the
graphic file.



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It takes a long time, of course, to scroll the
whole graphic file in that way. Therefore
there are two other possibilities: Using the
keys 1 to 4, you can directly acces one of the
4 graphic file sectors. 1 accesses the file
top left, 2 top right, 3 bottom left and 4
bottom right.

The most comfortable way, without doubt,
is the
survey function. For this click on the
respective icon, which you will find on the
left hand side of the arrows. Handyscan shows
you then an overview of the complete graphic
file reduced by half and indicates the last
visible section with two flashing edges.
These edges can be scrolled with the mouse or
the joystick until you click on a new segment.

Beside the survey function Handyscan offers
you a second command which works similarily
and this we want to consider now: The
reduction of 50~. Click on the icon, fraction
1/2. During the survey function the reduced
depiction dissapears again once you click on
another option, not so with the reduction
function, it will stag. You will have a
"Schlumpf" as big as the monitor.

If you dont like the reduced "Schlumpf", you
can make the reduction undone by Undo (but
carefully please, only when you havent issued
another command in between, because undo
affects only the last command that was
loaded).







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If you dont like the whole Schlumpf anymore
and you want again room for new drawings, you
can erase it by the trash can. When you erase
the 4 screens one by one you will notice that
not the whole storage is cleared.The visible
part is only 184 points high, the whole
screen, however, 400, which means there will
be always one field left.
But there is a possibility to erase the	U
complete memory at once. Click on the trash
can twice (but not too quickly). This
function you have to handle most carefully
indeed, because it cant be undone by undo
since the storage of the C 64 is not big
enough for it.
Rubber bands for your comfort

After the trip in the memory scenery of the
Handyscan we look now at the next drawing
commands: Lines, rectangles, ellipses.
Please click the line icon (right beside the
fat brush), put the cursor in the drawing
field again and press the right mouse key. If
you want to move the cursor now you will
notice that there is a rubber line following
in the rear. "Rubber", because it stretches
like a rubber band and lets itself pull in all
directions. When the line is in the requested
position, you press the right hand mouse key a
second time. The line is then fixed and the
cursor is without rubber band again. If you
press once more, you have the rubber band
taken in tow again.





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Now you are ready for drawing ellipses. But
how to get an exact round circle? One
possibility is to put the cursor directly
under or over the center point, which means
you let the circle shrink to a line. But
Handyscan draws no line, it will draw a
circle.

Another way is the display of the coordinates.
Simply press the key 0 in the center of the
circle immediately before or after the first
press on the button. The display of the
coordinates on the right hand end of the menu
board jumps to 0 and shows you the distance to
the center point by moving the cursor. The
upper number is then the x-coordinate
(horizontal distance) the lower the
Y-coordinate (horizontal distance). When you
place the cursor so that both numbers are
equal, you get a round circle.

If it doesnt look round on the monitor, its
because the monitor distorts the picture: It
wouldnt look round in print either. If you
want to draw a circle who appears round in
print, you will have to switch the coordinate
display to millimeters. First you click the
display of coordinates and two ms will
appear, which stand for millimeter. Now you
can measure all distances in the picture in
millimeters, the radius of a circle also. Now
draw a round circle in millimeters and you
will immediately see the difference to a
circle done in pixels.








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And the filling function can more than only  
fill: Draw an ellipse, fill it and then click
again in the middle of this area. The results
are similar to free drawing: Empty areas will
be filled, full ones will be erased.

When you click a pattern on again after having
erased the full circle area1 you will notice
that the filling with patterns does work here
too and the circle will appear patterned
again.

Later you will learn to change patterns or to
overlay them in different ways. But now lets
look at a new function.


Handyscan the writing expert

To our pie shaped graphic the explanatory text
is still missing.Now click on ABC-icon, move
cursor to the drawing area and type in the
text. And here we encounter a sort of rubber
function: The text is attached to the cursor
like a flag and can be put anywhere.

Moreover you can modify it in different ways:
with the CTRL-E (= press control key and, at
the same time or one after the other, key E)
you can make the text appear boldface, by
clicking on CTRL-E again, the text will be
normal again. CTRL-H provides for letters in
double height and CTRL-B in double width. To
go back to normal, you just click it again, as
you already know. And of course you can
combine all three functions.






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In addition you can alter the writing
direction with the four arrows or cursor keys,
which means you can also write vertically.
Here you will prefer the cursor keys to the
arrow icons, because its not so simple to go
into the menu with a cursor that has a text
attached like a rubber band. You have to move
the cursor so quickly that the rubber band
cant follow, otherwise you wont see the text
anymore.


With the DEL key you can erase the last sign.
Once you have selected the options for your
text and have put it in the right place, you
can fix it with the mouse key.


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