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Use Drawing Tools without a Mouse

Is it possible to use commands for drawing instead of dragging the mouse? I.e., can people with movement disabilities use MS Paint? If so, it might be helpful to list the commands (or at least the source link for that information). Tesseract501 (talk) 15:33, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Is it possible to use commands for drawing instead of dragging the mouse?"

Paint certainly has a keyboard interface, though it doesn't seem intuitive. There are things I can't seem to figure out how to do at the moment.

"I.e., can people with movement disabilities use MS Paint?"

That's not synonymous with the first question. Firstly, it depends on the "movement disabilities". Secondly, a keyboard interface doesn't need to be entirely "commands". Thirdly, check out MouseKeys. It's a method of using the numeric keypad to perform mouse operations, included as standard probably at least since Windows 95.

"If so, it might be helpful to list the commands (or at least the source link for that information)."

Wikipedia is not a manual. I would help you if I could. There may be other graphics editors that have better keyboard accessibility. But I can't seem to find much relevant material online by a quick search.

— Smjg (talk) 19:46, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Color mode?

[The program can be in color mode or two-color black-and-white, but there is no grayscale mode.] What are they talking about when mentioning Color Mode, Two-Color Black-and-White Mode & Grayscale Mode? The application has a color palette you can use, but freely allows for 24-bit colors. I genuinely do not understand this line of text. QwertyPc Game17 (talk) 13:13, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

JSPaint

is the open source clone of MS Jspaint notable enough to be mentioned on the article? -1ctinus📝🗨 17:28, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]