Sharing and Editing Your Pins

Sharing and Editing Your Pins

Curvemeister pins can be easily shared as text with your friends and coworkers:

Copy a pin to text like this:

Figure 1. Copying a pin

And use the copied information to send your pins to a friend like this:

Hey Fred,

I think these colors might work well for that series on making birdhouses you're working on.

Pine (varnished) Lab(67,12,50) pin hue and saturation ;Curvemeister, d65 spectro
Cedar wood Lab(58,13,22) pin hue and saturation ;Curvemeister, d65 spectro

Mike

Figure 2. Emailing a pin to a friend .

Web-based email programs may convert the tabs in the text string to spaces. If that happens, use the method described below.

But wait, there's more! You may also edit the MyPins.txt file by right clicking on the pin palette, and using the Pin File sub-menu.

Click on it and ...

Figure 3. The pin palette "Edit Pins" sub-menu.

Boom - MyPins.txt, at your service! Here you may edit your pins in all of their text-filled glory. Naturally, you may email the entire file if you wish, or just parts of it. This is also where you would install pins that you receive from others.

The header of this file contains documentation on the various commands that you may access here. If you like to get into the guts of a system, there are all kinds of goodies here, including the ability to split your pins into separate files, and to display your own 24 bit bitmaps in the pins palette!

Figure 4. Mypins.txt - a home for your pins.

Note: The MyPins.txt file, unlike its sister the Pins.txt file, will not be modified when you install a newer version of Curvemeister. This has the good result that your new pins will not be lost when you upgrade, but it also means that you may want to check the header of the Pins.txt file to find out about any new pin commands that have been added.

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