Larry's Paint V1.0

Welcome to Larry's Paint. This is a free Java applet program that allows you to make various paintings. You can draw two ways. A simple way of drawing is to use premade images, called stamps, to put in your painting. The other way to draw, is by hand, using a coloring pen. Your paintings can even have a background. The program comes with stamps and backgrounds, however you are able to change them to your own images. This program can be used in a small way to display a slide show that you can annotate.

I have tested it in Netscape, Internet Explorer, and AppletViewer. In IE 3.0 I had to select the background twice for it to display the first time. So in IE 3.0 press your selection number twice, if the first time you don't see it. After IE 3.0 displayed the image once, if I selected it again, it displayed right away.

Start Larry's Paint

You may need to click the applet, so that the computer knows that the keys you press go to the applet. If you find the applet is not responding to key presses, just click the applet.

The program allows you to choose from 10 colors, stamps, and backgrounds.

The numbers on the keyboard will let you choose which, color, stamp, or background you want.

To select a color, press C. Now you are in Color mode. Any of the numbers pressed selects the drawing color. You will see a bar at the top of the applet indicating the drawing color. The colors are:

1 - black

2 - white

3 - green

4 - cyan

5 - blue

6 - red

7 - pink

8 - magenta

9 - orange

0 - yellow

To draw, click the mouse in the applet to press the pen down. Now keep the mouse button down and drag the mouse to make the pen draw a line. You can change the pen color at any time, while in Color mode.

In Stamp or Background mode, give the program a few seconds after making your selection, for it to load.

To use a stamp, press the S key. Now you are in Stamp mode. You can select various stamps by pressing the numbers on the keyboard. Move the mouse to the location you want to place the stamp and press the mouse button. You can place the stamp more than once in your painting. To choose another stamp, press the number of the stamp you want.

To use a background, press the B key. Now you are in Background mode. Pressing a number selects the background. The background erases your painting, and gives it a new background. In IE 3.0 you may have to select your background twice for it to display.

If you want to start over, you can erase everything. Pressing the E key erases everything, including the background.

The applet has no print function. You'll have to capture the screen and print it out.

To print in Windows 95 or higher:

To capture the contents of the screen, press PRINT SCREEN.
Now go to Paint or any other image program and paste the image to print it out. Paint is found in Start/Programs/Accessories/Paint.

For the Mac do:

command-shift-3, the screen is saved as "picture 1", or another numbered PICT file in the root level of your hard drive for you to print. The new Mac OS has command-shift-4, to select the area saved. I don't use a Mac, and I got these instructions from a newsgroup. If they don't work for you, check with someone that knows the Mac.

As I mentioned before, you can use your own images for the stamps and the background. The file names correspond to the numbers on the keyboard. The stamps are the file names stamp0.gif through stamp9.gif. The background file names are back0.jpg to back9.jpg. The reason for gif for the stamps, and jpg for the background, is because the stamps could be transparent, and only gif does that. Since the background takes up the full size of the applet, I figured jpgs are better for that. You may want to copy the applet's class files (lgpaint.class and lgcanvas.class) and html file (lgpaint.html) to a new directory for each set of your own images.

If you need to use this as a small slide show, you can set the background images to be the slides. Then if you are in Background mode, you can select the slide to be displayed. If you switch to Color mode, you can make annotations on the screen.

The size of the applet is determined by it's size in the HTML code, you can change it by editing the value of the width and height in the applet's tag.

<applet code=lgpaint.class width=600 height=300 >

Open up the lgpaint.html file in an editor and change the size of the applet. The background image is resized to this size to fill the applet's display.

This applet is free. You can even place the applet in your web site for visitors to draw their own paintings. If you enjoy using this applet, please send me a picture postcard of your city, state or country. I really like hearing from people that use my software. Hearing from users (my fans) encourages me to make new software. Please send your postcard to:

Larry's Paint
Lawrence Goetz
3263 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11210
USA

Thank you.

You can write me feedback on my software. I have an area on my site listing feedback people have written to me.

Visit my web site for other software I've written. If you have a question about this applet, e-mail me.