Chapter 12. Plugins
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Rockpaint is a bitmap (
.bmp
) editor for Rockbox. It can open any
.bmp
file whose di-
mensions are the same size as your device’s screen or smaller; it can also create empty
bitmaps for you to work with.
Opening A File
To open a file, you may use either the context menu option “Open With” in the File
Browser, or you may enter Rockpaint first using the Plugins menu and open a file from
there. To perform the latter, simply press Rockpaint’s Menu button or move the cursor
beyond the bottom of the screen; then move the cursor onto “Menu” and select it. Fi-
nally, select “Load” and navigate to the image you wish to open.
Tools
Rockpaint offers several tools to aid you in editing; you can view them by either pressing
Rockpaint’s “Menu” key or by attempting to move the cursor beyond the bottom of the
screen. From top to bottom and left to right, and by section, they are as follows:
Colour Picker
The top left tool shows your colours that are at the ready. To swap them,
“click” on the background colour. To edit the foreground colour, click on it.
Preset Palette
Several preset colours are available. Clicking on one changes the fore-
ground of the Colour Picker to the selected colour.
Pencil
Draws as you move the cursor. You can change the brush size with the Menu
option “Brush Size”. Use the Select key to toggle the tool while editing the image.
Selection tool
Allows you to select a rectangular region; once you do, you will be shown
a menu of options (including “cancel” if you make a mistake).
Line tool
Draws a straight line.
Curve tool
Allows you to draw a line and curve it.
Rectangle tool
Draws an unfilled rectangle.
Circle tool
Draws an unfilled circle.
Gradient fill
To use this tool, click at the starting and ending points. Starting with the
background and going to the foreground colour, Rockpaint will fill the region with
a gradual colour change.
Bucket fill
Fills an same-colour or empty region with a colour.
Dropper
Click on a colour in the image to change the foreground colour to it.
Eraser
The opposite of the pencil; it changes painted pixels to white.
The Rockbox manual
(version 3.14)
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