DrawIt
version 2.01
Copyright (c) 2001 by Andrew Empson
email: andrew@drawit.co.nz
url: http://www.drawit.co.nz/

Thank you for using DrawIt. It's been a great learning experience for me to write it, and I hope it gives you some pleasure, or at least is vaguely useful.

I can't afford to keep spending time and money on DrawIt, so I'm afraid I've had to make it Shareware. Registration costs $9.95 (US) and is available through PalmGear or Handango. Registration entitles you to free upgrades as they become available, before they are released to the general public, and the fee goes towards development and maintenance costs. DrawIt is by no means a finished product, so updates will become available.

There is no limit imposed on the software itself. Some people don't have credit cards, or can't afford to pay for software, so if that's the case, I'm happy for you to use it as you see fit.

Using this software indicates your acceptance of the license agreement and warranty included in this Zip file.


Revision history:

Latest version: 2.01 17 December 2001
Added onboard help for the tools. Tap the 'i' on the toolbar, then the tool you want help on. Also reduced (slightly) the memory requirements for saving images.

2.0 2 August 2001
Major updates: Incorporated greyscale and colour versions into one application (OS 3.5 or higher required), Replaced index screen with more standardized version - Thumbnails and Names, Added Polygon and triangle tools, Added pop-up tools.
Minor updates: Added hardware key support, Fixed home while zoomed problem, Fixed oversized paste problem, Fixed eraser over toolbar problem, Added variable sized undo eraser, Added stackable commands, Added horizontal linear gradient fill, Added vertical linear gradient fill, Added radial gradient fill, Fixed all the bugs I could find. That's a mouthful!

1.43 10th June 2001
Added Cut/Copy/Paste, floating selections and variable eraser 

1.42 1st June 2001
Added Pan/Zoom, Kaleidoscope and Flip 

1.41 20th May 2001
Added Text tool. Fixed lots of bugs. Pop up of toolbar now completely hides it. Tap the silkscreen menu icon to get it back.

1.40 16th May 2001
Added CustIt - the customizer. Rewrote nearly all of DrawIt to allow for customization reducing the app size by 5kb. Added brush shapes slider. Removed Autohide option. Added Undo button.

1.39 8th May 2001
Added Undo. Write a 'u' in the graffiti area to undo your last brush stroke. The 'Saved Eraser' is now an Undo eraser, and will only undo your last action. Sped up loading of images, fixed a bug involving the mask tool under the toolbar.

1.38 6th May 2001
Added Brush shapes and colour swap.

1.37 1st May 2001
Added image Compression. Wrote a manual. Added graffiti support for tool selection, Shape and mask tools now work Left-Right or Right-Left, added 's' stroke in graffiti area to quick-save.

1.36 29th April 2001
Added Burn and Dodge tools. Now remembers brush size for each tool. Added hardware button support for index screen. Re-introduced new image option for Next and Previous arrows.

1.35 27th April 2001
Reorganised the toolbar icons to be more intuitive. Added arrow indicator to show hidden tools. Added Line, Q-Line, Spray, Smear, Saved Eraser, BG circle and BG Square.

1.3 25th April 2001
Added Page Index screen, removed delete button from main drawing area, re-wrote large parts of the software to make it smaller and less buggy.

1.28 24th April 2001
Added 'Wet Felt' tool - a combination of Pencil and Blur, which feels like a wet felt-tip pen to draw with. See above for instructions.

1.27 21st April 2001
Added Clone tool. See above for instructions. Added Save confirmation.

1.26  20th April 2001
Added Rectangle and Oval tools. Several fixes including problems with the eye dropper switching back.

1.25 17th April 2001
Rewrote Blur tool, no spotting any more, also uses brush size, reworked Mask tool, brush size is now context sensitive, prepared for Import functions of DrawIt Bitmap Exporter for Windows (in BETA from my website)

1.24a 10th April 2001
The database is now set to back up on hot-sync.