Fills


Selecting Fills

The group of colored icons in the FILLS panel are fills (backgrounds). Click one to make it the current drawing background. The current fill is highlighted by a green outline. The fill can be either full-screen or tiled (repeated). Full screen fills will scale to fill a large monitor.


Loading Fills

Clicking the arrow at the upper right of a fill listing will open a popup menu. The menu is a list of fills available on your hard drive that can be loaded. Select the name to load the item into that position. Fills will not load if there is not enough memory to load them. To make the popup menu go away, click anywhere outside of the popup menu.


Previewing Fills on Your Hard Drive

You can preview a fill on your hard drive by pausing the cursor over the name in the popup menu. A preview will appear in the upper left panel of the Controls Window. When previewing fills on a Macintosh, the preview will indicate if there is enough memory to load the desired item.


Increasing Memory for Fills

To increase memory to load larger fills on a Macintosh, highlight the Vusic application icon and select "Get Info" from the File Menu. Within the "Memory" panel there is a text box named "Preferred Size." Type in a larger number such as 10,000 to allocate more memory to the Vusic application.


Fill Settings Panel

Click the fill icon to open the FILL SETTINGS Panel. This panel allows you to save a fill set.


Fill Set Popup: If you like a certain set of fills, you can save the set to your hard drive and recall the set at any time. You can save the set to any name that is 15 characters or less. You can load a set by selecting it from the popup menu by name. Once loaded, the set name will display in the text box. However, once a new item is loaded, the text box will display "(None)". The item that was highlighted when the set was saved is made the active item when the set is loaded.


Fixed Color Fills

Some fills use fixed colors. When fixed-color fills are used, the current gradient is replaced by these fixed colors and the gradient does not animate.


Naming Conventions

Fills that are larger than 640x480 pixels have one of the following designations: NX, LX, GX, or SX. NX (next) refers to a fill that is 800x600 pixels. LX (large) refers to a fill that is 1024x768 pixels. GX (grand) refers to a fill that is 1152x864 pixels. SX (super) refers to a fill that is 1280x1024 pixels.


Keyboard Shortcuts

F (Fill) will trigger a fill change. Set a specific fill by typing 1 to 6 first.


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