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!NTile Maker
This utility allows you to create your own tile sets for use with Mah
Jongg or Tile Match, or to modify the standard tiles or tiles created
by others. A full set of tools is provided.
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!JDrawing Area
The left side of the screen is the drawing area. You draw in the
large box by pointing and clicking the mouse or moving the yellow
keyboard cursor with the arrow keys and hitting space to draw.
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!KDrawing Tools
The standard drawing tool is a single dot. You can also choose
other drawing tools. From left to right the tools are: dot (freehand
drawing), line, circle, rectangle, filled circle, filled rectangle,
swap colors, fill, and enter text. Select the desired function by
clicking on its button with the mouse cursor.
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!MMenus
Along the top of the screen are a list of menus that you can open to
reach additional functions. The choices are Help, Info, File, Edit,
Options and Quit. The meanings of Help, Info and Quit should be
obvious and the others are explained in the next few screens.
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!LFile Menu
This menu lets you clear and start a new tile, save the tile you've
been working on, read in an entire tile set from disk, copy a tile
into the editing area, import a .PCX
picture, add your name to a tile set file or to quit the program.
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!LReading In Tiles
When you read in tiles from disk you get the entire 42 tile set, or
as many tiles as you've drawn so far, and the tiles are displayed on
the right side of the screen. To edit an individual tile just move
the mouse cursor over the tile you want and click, which will move
that tile onto the editing portion of the screen.
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!LSaving A Tile
When you're ready to save your work, select Save Tile from the File
menu. You'll be asked for the name of the file this tile should be
included in. If different from the last file you read in the new
file will be loaded and displayed on the screen. You'll then be
prompted for the tile number which you can enter from the keyboard
or you can click on the displayed tile you want to replace.
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!MEdit Menu
Tile Maker has a number of ways you can edit your tile. You can flip
it left to right or top to bottom, you can rotate it, shift it by one
pixel left, right, up or down. You can also undo the last change you
made.
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!MOptions Menu
Under this menu you can turn the snap cursor function on or off; this
determines whether the cursor moves smoothly or snaps to the center of
the pixel. You can choose whether text can go all the way to the
edge of the tile face or if a one pixel border should be used. You
can also choose whether any dots you draw are mirrored left/right,
top/bottom or both.
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!OUndo
There is an undo function in the edit menu, but you can load any tile
that appears anywhere on the screen just by clicking on it. Tile
Maker saves up to three previous tiles along the left edge of the screen
allowing you to undo up to three steps back. You can also load any tile
from the set on the right side of the screen at any time.
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!NMore Information
This has been just a brief overview of the editor's functions. For
complete details please read TILEMAKR.DOC which is the complete
documentation for the utility.