Mobile Atelier Welcome to the world of Mobile Painting

Welcome to the world of mobile painting. Enjoy drawing with powerful software, Mobile Atelier. (Mobile Atelier is a 2nd version of Nfcanvas)


Installation

If setup program is available, simply run setup. Else, Unzip files and copy nfcanvas2 executable , nfcanvas2xxx.i18, and nfcanvas2.dat to windows ce machine. It doesn't matter what folder or memory card you copy to, but all 3 files must be in the same folder. If you are using HPC version, you also need mfc20.dll (copy to \windows folder) which is available from my homepage.

Mobile Atelier is plugin-based system. Most of the functions, including pen, are provided in plugin format. Create "plugin" subfolder under where you copied executable, and copy all ".plg" files and ".dat" files for plugin under this subfolder.

Note:If you are also using Mobile Pencil, it may be a good idea to copy both programs to same folder since custom color palette and custom pen files can be shared for both programs (for professional version).

Note:Mobile Atelier works in higher resolution with JS Landscape or Niditot Virtural Screen, but larger screen size will consume larger amount of memory.


Main Menu

Main Menu will be displayed at top of the screen. Menu shows current status, and tapping in each area will bring up submenu or changes status.

  1) Open submenu / Close submenu
  2) Shows current selected plugin. Tap to open plugin submenu
  3) Shows plugin status, if available. Tap to open option submenu
  4) Shows current color. Tap to open color submenu
  5) Current selected layer. Tap to switch layer1 -> Mask -> layer2
  6) Current zoom ratio. Tap up/down half to zoom out/in. Ratio is 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x
  7) Tapping will display leaf indicator. When leaf is displayed, drag screen to move view area in zoom mode
  8) Undo. Undo 1 level, but depends on plugin support. (Pro Version)
  9) Tap to move main menu up / down of the screen


Sub Menu

Pressing (1) on menu will show / hide submenu.

  1) : Tap each menu to change submenu item. Exit will exit from program. Leaf mark shows current selected menu.
  2) : Tap to hide all menus to check balance of the drawing. During preview, zoom is set to 1 and all layers / mask is displayed.
  3) : Displays option for each plugin selected.
  4) : Tap to show about dialog

Click link below for detailed explanation on submenus.

  File File new / open / save
  Plugin Select / configure plugin
  Option Displays option depending on plugin selected
  Color Color selection
  Config Configure mobile atelier system
  Exit Exit program


Layer / Mask

Layer support is a characteristic of Mobile Atelier. Mobile Atelier supports 2 layers and 1 mask layer. Layer is like you have 2 papers overlapped, and you can draw on each paper independently, but seeing them together. It is useful in case like you draw outline on 1 layer, and paint color on other layer. Drawing and erasing on one layer doesn't affect other layer. Changing overlap method will create interesting effects.
Mask layer is used to mask the layer. Darker color you draw on mask layer, layer 1 / 2 will become invisible / visible. For detail on using layers and mask, search on internet for examples since these functions are same as those for desktop graphic tools. Mask is not used as default since it consumes memory and CPU resource. Mask can be tunded on from Config submenu.


Plugins

Followings are the explanation for plugins which comes with Mobile Atelier. Additional plugins can be downloaded from homepage.

Water Pen 10x10Water Pen 10x10
Water Pen 20x20Water Pen 20x20
Move LayerMove Layer
LayerLayer Operation
Gradient PaletteGradation Palette
ColorColor Selector
TV EffectTV like effect
EffectsVarious special effects
SolidSolids
TextTexts
MazeRandom Maze Creator
FileFile Manager
Effect PenEffect Pen
Point PenPoint Pen


Creating Custom Datafile

nfcanvas2.dat is a bitmap file, and you can create your own interface by modifying this file. Adobe Photoshop format of this file is available from my homepage. When saving, save in 24-bit bitmap format.

Undo erasor is used to cover Undo button for freeware version. 20x20 square.


Afterwords

Mobile Atelier is a mobile paiting software which challenges for functionality with PDA. Enjoy powerful drawing anytime, anywhere. Mobile Atelier has various and powerful plugins to provide tools for powerful drawings. Mobile Pencil, my other program, is made easy-to-use with pastel like style. If you have Mobile Pencil Professional version, you can download Mobile Pencil plugin to have both functionality in Mobile Atelier. The usage, is up to you.

I hope you'll enjoy mobile painting, where you can enjoy drawing anytime, anywhere.

 

NeFa

Special Thanx to : Mitsuhiro Arita、creator of "mobae"、A.Kondoh、Mdn WinGraphic Magazine editor、Y.Misaki、H.Takashi、O.Daiku and many peoples with helpful supports.

 


Send mail to nefa@mahoroba.ne.jp for any questions or comments.