Arrow keys: scroll canvas up/down/left/right
- +LeftShift: translate picture up/down/left/right
- +Tab: Hold while using arrow keys to guarantee that you'll only move one character at a time
F1: Open up verbose help.
F3: Show all connected monitors.
Mousewheel: change background color
- +LeftShift: change text color
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[' or '
]': also change background color
- +LeftShift: also change text color
Right click: erase a thing
Middle click or '
T': Place text with a prompt (cancel with X)
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Z': Undo. The buffer allows for, by default, a total of five undos.
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P': Pick text and background colors from a part of the screen (cancel with X)
leftclick: Put down background color below cursor
- +LeftShift: Drag and draw a line
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+' and '
-': Go to next and previous frame respectively. If going to a frame that doesn't exist, makes a new one, unless you are previewing with BLittle, in which case it'll loop back.
- +LeftAlt: Replaces the current frame with the next or previous one respectively.
- +LeftShift: Merges the current frame atop the next or previous one respectively.
- +RightShift: If using '+', will duplicate the current frame IF it's the last one.
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G': Converts to grayscale. Do not fret, press it again to revert. It saves in grayscale too.
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A': Resets scrolling to (0,0)
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C': Quickly scroll to a certain set of coordinates.
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F': Activate fill tool - left click on a spot to fill with the current color/character. Right click deletes the region instead.
- +LeftShift: Fills all empty pixels on the screen with your current text/background color.
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T': Activate text tool - click on a spot, then type out text and push enter to put down text.
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M': Changes the metadata attribute to each pixel. It's not terribly useful, unless you want to make a game map in PAIN or whatever.
Ctrl: Opens the menu.
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B': Toggle BLittle preview mode (if possible)
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N': Opens up the block character selection screen.
- +Shift: Opens up the special character selection screen (all characters from byte 0 to 255)
MENU:
File:
- Save: Saves the picture. If no filename was given, it will ask for one.
- Save As: Same as save, but it cuts straight to the chase and asks for a filename.
- Export: Saves the picture in one of six formats, being tabular PAIN format, NFP, NFT, BLT, UCG, or GIF.
- Open: Opens another image.
Edit:
- Delete frame: Deletes the current frame.
- Clear frame: Removes all dots in a frame.
- Crop frame: Removes all dots that are outside the screen.
- Choose Box Character: Opens up the box character selection.
- Choose Special Character: Opens up the special character selection.
- BLittle Shrink: Shrinks image with the BLittle API.
- BLittle Grow: Reverses the effects of BLittle Shrink.
- Cut: Select a rectangular area, and cut it to a clipboard.
- Copy: Select a rectangular area, and copy it to a clipboard.
- Paste: Paste a specified clipboard onto the canvas.
Set:
- Config options are self-explanatory and I'm tired, get off my case
Window:
- Set Screen Size: Sets the size of the "@" references of the size of the screen. Can be set to an XY value, or to that of a connected monitor.
- Set Scroll XY: Set the X and Y coordinates that you scroll to.
- Set Grid Colors: Sets the backdrop colors to your currently selected color configuration.
Exit: