drag the two blue handles here to set where your chart starts and ends
what the tools do
Fillfill the range between the two grips back up with candles or wicks, or start over
Chopflat, slant, freehand and curve, drag to cut the bottom, right-drag to cut the top
Warpflip or mirror everything between the two grips
Sizemake candles taller or shorter, and choose which ones
Imagedrop in a picture, cut the candles to its shape, and lock it in place once it's positioned
Exportthe numbers, the picture, or the project to come back to
Candleson means the tools shape candle bodies
Wickson means the tools shape wicks, and the colour squares appear
gripsthe two blue handles in the strip along the top set where your chart starts and ends
keys
| F | open Fill |
| D | open Chop |
| W | open Warp |
| S | open Size |
| I | open Image |
| L | lock or unlock the picture |
| E | open Export |
| Q | flat tool |
| A | slant tool |
| Z | freehand tool |
| R | curve tool |
| X | swap which side the tools cut |
| C | turn Candles on or off |
| V | turn Wicks on or off |
| 1-9, 0 | pick a wick colour (only when Wicks is on) |
| Ctrl+Z | undo |
| Ctrl+Shift+Z Ctrl+Y | redo |
| Ctrl+A | choose all candles |
| Esc | cancel the tool, close a menu, close this |
| Enter | apply the curve you are bending |
| ? | open this help |
start full, carve down. You always begin with a screen packed full of
candles. Cutting a picture out of that is far quicker than placing candles
one at a time, that is the whole idea behind doodlpad.
doodlpad
This is a tool for drawing pictures out of candlesticks. You get a chart packed full of candles, and you carve your picture out of it.
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