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Chapter 2 - Newton Works Draw Application / About the Draw Application

Programmer's Overview

You can add tools, stamps, and patterns to this application, and manipulate the contents of the canvas. The patterns are used in the fill pattern tool's palette (the paint bucket). The stamps are used by the stamp tool; they add bitmaps or picture shapes to the canvas. The tools are added to the tool bar, and should create a graphical shape of some sort.

If you wish to add bitmaps to the Draw application, you can do this through either the tool or the stamp interface. In general, you should include bitmaps as stamps; this is what the stamp tool is designed to do. It is also easier to programmatically add stamps, than to add tools.

As with other Newton Works stationery, you can add tools to the Tools picker. This is not discussed in this chapter, this chapter only describes how to add tools to the tool bar. For information on adding to the Tools picker, see "Working With the Tools Picker".