The Visual AGI Picture Editor is used to create AGI Picture resources, and is part of the Visual AGI editing suite. Please visit the Visual AGI website for more information.
For information about AGI, please visit the AGI Development Site.
You need to have Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 or higher installed to run this software. Find more information about this here.
Just put the “AGI Picture Editor.exe” and “AGIHelper.dll” files in the same folder and run “AGI Picture Editor.exe” by double-clicking it.
Select a tool from the ToolBar, left-click in the Drawing Tab window to add control points to the command and finally right-click to finish the drawing command. Try to keep the number of commands down by adding several control points to a single command.
Choose the "Select" command in the toolbar to enable selection of points on the current command. You can then left-click and drag the points to change lines and fills. You can also right-click on a selected point to bring up a context menu.
Select the point where you would like to insert an additional control point. Choose “Add point” from the context menu by right-clicking it, or select it from the Edit menu. The new point will be selected, and you can move it to a new position.
By clicking and holding a control point (marked with X’s), you can move it around by moving your mouse. The screen will instantly redraw your changed control point, which is good for example showing how a fill will look like.
If you need to move a command in the stack, use the thumb to navigate to the command you want to move. Choose “Cut” from the Edit menu, context menu or press CTRL-X. Navigate to where you would like the command to be moved, and choose “Paste” from the Edit menu, context menu or press CTRL-V.
The optimize tool is an advanced, recursive routine to convert Absolute Lines into less space consuming commands available in AGI. It will automatically detect and convert to XCorner, YCorner and Relative Line if the conversion will save as little as one byte.
Choose “File->Open” or click the toolbar button named Open. In “Files of Type”, select “Background Image”. Choose a compatible image and click on OK to open it. Use the menu item “Tools->Show background” to change visible state. BMP, JPG, GIF, TIFF and EXIF is supported as background images.
The main window consists of the Main Menu, ToolBar, Drawing Tabs, Zoom Tabs, TrackBar and StatusBar.
File – New Creates a new AGI Picture resource
File – Open Opens an AGI Picture or a background image
File – Save Saves the current AGI Picture to file
File – Save As Saves the current AGI Picture to file with a different name, or as a bitmap. (BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF)
File – Quit Exits Visual AGI Picture Editor
Edit – Add Point Adds a control point to the current command. You must select ONE control point first, and the new point will be added to the same position.
Edit – Delete Point(s) Deletes the currently selected control points. If all points of a command is selected, the whole command will be deleted.
Edit – Command – Cut Cuts the currently selected command and places it to clipboard
Edit – Command – Paste Pastes the previous cut command to the current stack position
Edit – Command – Delete Deletes the currently selected command
Edit – Command – Optimize Tries to optimize the currently selected command
Tools – Optimize All Tries to optimize all of the commands in the stack
Tools – Snap to Points Enable/disable control point snap
Tools – Show Background Enable/disable viewing the background image
Tools – Set zoom level Changes the zoom level of the main drawing area (1x, 2x, 3x, 4x)
New Creates a new AGI Picture
Open Opens an AGI Picture from file
Save Saves the current AGI Picture to file
Select Enable control point selection
Line Selects the Line command
Fill Selects the Fill command
Visual Draw Allows you to select a Visual color or disable Visual drawing
Priority Draw Allows you to select a Priority color or disable Priority drawing
Visual Displays the Visual layer of the AGI Picture
Priority Displays the Priority layer of the AGI Picture
Visual Displays a zoomed portion of the Visual layer
Priority Displays a zoomed portion of the Priority layer
Background Displays a zoomed portion of the Background layer
Moving the thumb will move through the command stack that makes up this AGI Picture. The screen will draw from left to right, so be careful in which order you put your commands. You cannot for example fill on any non-white (Visual) or non-red (Priority) areas.
The StatusBar shows information about the current stack position, currently selected command and mouse coordinates.