WarPaint Software - Known problems
The pattern selector can be quite flaky and does not work on at least one machine here with an S3 card immediately after a clean boot.
After a fresh reboot, any programmatic selection of the pattern selector causes a trap in PmMerge.dll. If we do not select it programmatically, it will run but manually selecting a pattern can cause the program to become unresponsive. After some unknown amount of time it seems to work fine but we have disabled it to avoid problems.
It can be enabled by starting WarPaint with the /P parameter.
This can be accomplished by doing the following:
- Open the WarPaint desktop object properties by right clicking the icon and selecting "Properties."
- Enter /P in the "Optional Parameters" field.
- Close the desktop object.
- Start the program.
The pattern selector is actually an important tool because it is the only way for the user to toggle between drawing outlines of circles, squares etc or drawing them filled with color.
If you happen to select a pattern and the cursor disappears or the program becomes unresponsive, press the Control-Escape key combination and end the program immediately. The more time you try to make it work, the longer it will take to kill it. More about it in Color Palette.
The Fill tool works fine on an empty canvas but seems to have trouble filling over any color.
When doing a Screen Capture, the Tool Palette and the Color Palette will move. We will be addressing this in upcoming releases but please keep in mind that the "standard" applications in the suite will probably receive attention earlier than any of the "Bonus" type apps like WarPaint.
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