When running under Mac OS 8.5, Painting puts proxy icons in its document windows and lets you use path popup menus.
What is a Proxy Icon?
You may be familiar with these from the Mac OS 8.5 Finder. The Finder has little icons in all of its windows. If you hold down on such an icon until it highlights (becomes dark), you can drag it around as if it were the actual folder. For example, if you drag a folder's proxy icon to the desktop, the Finder will put the real folder icon on the desktop.
An enabled proxy icon in Painting
Painting supports this feature. You can drag the icon anywhere you want. You can drag it somewhere in the Finder to move it somewhere else, or you can drag it to another application (such as clip2gif).
Sometimes the proxy icon will look greyed out, like this:  . This means that you have made changes to your document, and that you haven't saved them yet (by selecting Save from the File menu). You won't be able to drag the proxy icon until you save. It's also an indicator to check if you have saved the document.
What is a path popup menu?
The Finder has had these since System 7. If you hold down the Command key while clicking in title of a Finder window, a popup menu will appear. The menu's items are all the folders that contain the one that you Command-clicked. If you select one of those folders, it will open.
A path popup menu in Painting
Once you save a document in Painting (or if you open an existing one), you can Command-click the title of your document window and a path popup menu will appear. You can use this just like you use the ones in the Finder.
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