Paint 2.50  19/05/2003
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Paint 2.50 is a major rework of Paint since 2.45.  The GUI has
has been extensively modified to bring it up to date with the
styleguide and provide room for supporting alpha channel sprites.

 * New toolbox layout
    - Split the toolbox in to tools and options parts
    - Toolbox per sprite, as pane windows
    - Fresh look for the icons
    - New Colour display and picker on lower bar
    - New zoom tool on lower bar
    - Removed tool name display, and legacy Set/AND/OR/EOR options
    - Removed crude Spraycan tool
    - New colour sampler tool. ADJUST samples alpha mask level.

  * Much improved sprite file "filer" window
    - alt-Select in-place renaming like Filer
    - selection is highlighted
    - multiple sprites can be selected
    - rubberbanding for multiple selections, including Adjust
    - selected set can be deleted
    - sprites can be dragged around realtime to reorder them in the file
    - sort by name / size / type (via 'Edit' menu)
    - Select all / Clear selection (via 'Edit' menu)
    - Any IFC type can be pasted from clipboard (via 'Edit' menu)

  * New menus
    - Far closer styleguide compliance
    - All the old menu options are still there, just moved around.
    - Correct ticks for toolbox and colours
    - Added 'Magnify' Translation
    - Added Edit -> Copy to Clipboard
    - Added File -> New View
    - Helptext actually matches menu entries
    - Removed legacy ECF support

  * Alpha-Channel sprite support
    - Create alpha channel sprites
    - Load alpha channel sprites
    - Cope with IFC sending us alpha sprites (eg from ConvertPNG)
    - Select alpha-channel mask level from lower toolbar / dropper
    - Promotion to Alpha mask.  Demotion to Binary mask.

  * Scroll wheel support (some was in 2.4x but forgotten)
    - shift-wheel to zoom a sprite
    - shift-ctrl-wheel to zoom faster
    - wheel on the choices colour display to change value
    - wheel over alpha mask level to change value

  * Improved drawing tools
    - Option to show true brush image rather than EOR ghost
    - brush preview correctly snaps to grid alignment
    - adjust-click on colour window to pick colour for adjust-drawing
      (An ancient feature but nobody seems to know about it!)
    - 'X' boxing for block moves

  * Bug fixes
    - Lots of small things. Some big things!

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