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5.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
6.*fold00.*About the program
7
8:h1 id=about res=1000.About &progname.
9:artwork name='src\data\gotcha.bmp' align=center.
10:p.&progname. is a small (well, not :hp1.that:ehp1. small any more)
11utility for OS/2 which allows to easily capture windows, window interiors,
12parts of the screen or the whole desktop and save them to disk or
13clipboard as a picture (in many image formats, depending on what MMOS/2
14can do).
15
16.* FIXME
17.* changed from:
18.* (bitmap format)
19.* changed to:
20.* (in many image formats, depending on what MMOS/2 can do).
21
22:p.&progname. also has features for automatically making a capture every n
23seconds or making a capture of the whole screen and then exit (for
24commandline scripts e.g).
25
26:p.I wrote &progname. mainly because all other screen capture programs for
27OS/2 that I found were either really old and/or part of some big other
28program and/or buggy and/or not free.
29
30:p.:hp2.What's new?:ehp2.
31
32:p.You may want to check out the :link refid=history reftype=hd.version
33history:elink. to see what features have been added in the various releases.
34
35:p.If there are more things that would fit into the program, send me your
36comments about what you would like to have ... (though I do not promise
37anything ;-).
38
39:p.:hp2."Registering":ehp2.
40
41:p.&progname. is now released under the GPL, but as I'd still like to
42know that it is used, the :link
43refid=register reftype=hd."The Top 10 reasons why not to register &progname."
44:elink.;-) still apply.
45
46.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
47.*fold00.*The windows
48
49:h1 id=windows res=2000.The windows
50:p.This section informs you about the various windows of &progname., what
51functions they offer and how to use them.
52
53.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
54.*fold00.*The main window
55
56:h2 id=mainwin res=2.The main window
57:p.Though I think &progname. is pretty simple to use, I'll write a short
58description for every of the controls&colon.
59
60:dl break=all tsize=5.
61:dt.:hp2.Save image to ...:ehp2.
62:dd.Here you can select, where you want to store the captured image. To
63copy the image to the clipboard for pasting into other apllications'
64.* FIXME removed "BMP" from "...to a BMP file to..."
65documents select "Clipboard". If you want to write the image to a file
66to disk, select "File". Easy, isn't it? &colon.-)
67
68:p.If you selected "Prompt for filename" in the :link refid=settings1
69reftype=hd.settings window:elink., a file dialog will appear after the
70capture happened where you can select or enter the filename of the file
71the image should be saved to. If you activated "Autosave to numbered
72files ...", the filename will be determined automatically. If you selected
73"Force saving to file ...", the image will be always written to exactly
74the file you specified there (even if you selected "Clipboard" here).
75
76:dt.:hp2.Options:ehp2.
77:dd.Check "Hide &progname." if you want the &progname. window to
78mysteriously disappear from the screen (using an ancient tibetian
79meditation technique) before the capturing starts. Useful if you want to
80make a capture of a maximised window e.g. or if you just can't bear the
81look.
82
83:p.Check "Delayed capt." (where "capt." is a neat and striking abreviation
84for "capture" as you doubtlessly found out) if you want &progname. to wait
85some seconds (configurable in the :link refid=settings3
86reftype=hd.settings window:elink.) after you pushed the button/selected
87the window/whatever, before the thing is captured. Useful, if you want to
88open menus e.g. that should be captured too. If you also selected "Use
89serial capture" in the :link refid=settings3 reftype=hd.settings
90window:elink., the "serial delay" will be used instead.
91
92:dt.:hp2.Capture ...:ehp2.
93:dd.Select one of the buttons (preferably the one that matches with your
94intended capturing target). "Screen" will automatically capture the whole
95desktop. "Screen region" allows you to select a part of the screen with the
96mouse (or the cursor keys); move the lower left corner of the rectangle that
97moves with the mousepointer to the lower left corner of the region you want
98to capture, press the mousebutton or enter/return key. Size the rectangle by
99moving the mouse or using the cursor keys. Press the mousebutton or enter
100again to capture the selected region. "Window" will capture a whole window.
101Select the window with the mouse. It will rise to the surface and be captured.
102"Window interior" works similar, except that it captures only the inner region
103of the window (not titlebar, etc.).
104
105:p.To cancel a capture (before it has started, e.g. during the "delayed
106capture" delay), just press the escape key (the &progname. main window
107must be the active one!) or click the :link refid=snapshot
108reftype=hd.snapshot window:elink. with the mouse.
109
110:edl.
111:p.By selecting "Product information" from the window's system menu (or
112pressing "ALT+A") you get a nice about box where you can get
113various info about the program.
114
115:p.By selecting "Settings..." from the window's system menu you will get
116the ... yes, exactly, the :link refid=settings reftype=hd.settings
117window:elink.! ;-)
118
119.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
120.*The settings window
121
122:h2 id=settings res=4.The settings window
123:p.The settings window allows you to modify and adjust various things
124that modify the behavior of &progname..
125
126:p.Selecting the "Ok" pushbutton at the bottom of the window will close the
127settings and activate them. Selecting "Undo" will revert all your changes for
128the currently selected page of the notebook.
129
130:p.The settings notebook has the following pages&colon.
131:ul compact.
132:li.:link refid=settings1 reftype=hd.Saving:elink.
133:li.:link refid=settings2 reftype=hd.Snapshot window:elink.
134:li.:link refid=settings3 reftype=hd.Misc:elink.
135:li.:link refid=language reftype=hd.Language:elink.
136:eul.
137
138.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
139.*fold00.*The Saving page
140:h3 id=settings1 res=2210.The Saving page
141:p.On this page you can select, how the filename for the file, the
142captured image should be saved to, will be determined and in what file
143format the image should be saved.
144
145:dl break=all tsize=5.
146
147:dt.:hp2.Save type:ehp2.
148:dd.Here you may select how the filename for the file, the captured image
149should be saved to will be chosen&colon.
150
151:ul.
152:li."Prompt for filename" will pop up a file dialog after the capturing,
153where you can select or enter the name of the file. Note&colon. Several of
154the :link refid=cmdlineargs reftype=hd.command line arguments:elink. will
155need to change this settings without further notice!
156
157:li."Autosave to numbered files in directory ..." will not prompt you for
158a filename, but &progname. will create one automatically (of the form
159"got?????.ext" where the "?????" will be replaced by a unique number, that
160will increase with every saved file
161.* FIXME added
162and the "ext" by the appropriate extension for the selected image format
163.* FIXME
164). You must give a valid directory in
165the entryfield underneath to tell &progname. to what location the files
166should be saved to.
167
168:li."Force saving to file ..." will :hp1.always:ehp1. write the image to
169the file you give in the entry field underneath, even if you selected
170"Clipboard" in the "Save image to ..." group in the :link refid=mainwin
171reftype=hd.main window:elink.. If a file with that name already exists, it
172will be overwritten without further warning!
173
174:eul.
175
176:dt.:hp2.File format:ehp2.
177:dd.Here you may select what format the saved file should have.
178
179:edl.
180
181.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
182.*fold00.*The Snapshot window page
183:h3 id=settings2 res=3.The Snapshot window page
184:p.On this page you can adjust various settings for the :link
185refid=snapshot reftype=hd.snapshot window:elink..
186
187:dl break=all tsize=5.
188
189:dt.:hp2.Enable snapshot window:ehp2.
190:dd.This button simply determines if you want to have the snapshot window
191or not.
192
193:dt.:hp2.Capture type:ehp2.
194:dd.Here you may select, what kind of capture should be done, when you
195click the snapshot window. This types are the same as for the buttons in
196the :link refid=mainwin reftype=hd.main window:elink..
197
198:dt.:hp2.Options:ehp2.
199:dd.Some miscellanious options&colon.
200
201:ul.
202:li."Always on top of all windows" - If you select this checkbox, the
203snapshot window will never be hidden by other windows, but always float on
204top of them.
205
206:li."Hide when doing a capture" - This is similar to the "Hide &progname."
207checkbox in the :link refid=mainwin reftype=hd.main window:elink.. When
208you select this checkbox, the snapshot window will be hidden before a
209capture is taken and show up again afterwards.
210
211:eul.
212:edl.
213
214.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
215.*The Misc page
216:h3 id=settings3 res=2230.The Misc page
217:p.This page features miscellanious other options.
218
219:dl break=all tsize=5.
220
221:dt.:hp2.Delayed capture:ehp2.
222:dd.When you select the "Countdown timer with beeps" checkbox,
223&progname. will output a beep for every second of the :link refid=mainwin
224reftype=hd.delayed capture:elink. delay time. With the spinbutton below
225you can set, how many seconds &progname. should wait when you use
226"Delayed capture", before actually taking the capture.
227
228:dt.:hp2.Serial capture:ehp2.
229:dd.Using this option, you can &progname. have automatically take a
230capture every n seconds/20. Just select the checkbox and when you take a
231capture the next time, &progname. will not stop after the first capture is
232done, but wait a number of seconds/20 (that you can adjust with the
233spinbutton below) and then capture the screen/screen region/window again.
234And again. And again. Until you press the escape key (The main window must
235be the active one!) or click the :link refid=snapshot reftype=hd.snapshot
236window:elink. (or, in case of a window capture, until the window to be
237captured has been closed).
238:p.:hp1.Note&colon.:ehp1. The amount of time it takes to make the
239actual capture and to write the
240.* FIXME bitmap -> image
241image to disk is not included in this
242delay, as it depends heavily on your system and personal configuration.
243So if e.g. you want to make a capture every 10 seconds, but it takes 4
244seconds to capture the screen and write the file, you must set the
245delay to 120 seconds/20.
246:p.The timer used is not really that accurate, especially on slow systems;
247please test yourself what settings work best for you!
248
249:dt.:hp2.Use sound when capture finished:ehp2.
250:dd.Selecting this checkbox will cause &progname. to beep a few times
251when the capture is done.
252
253:dt.:hp2.Run &progname. at idle priority:ehp2.
254:dd.Selecting this checkbox will cause &progname. to be run at idle process
255priority, which basically means that it will run much slower ;-) But it will
256only very little "disturb" other programs that need more CPU time.
257
258:edl.
259
260.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
261.*fold00.*Language
262
263:h3 id=language res=2240.The Language page
264:p.On this page you can select, what language &progname. shall use. You may
265select any of the languages that are shown in the list.
266
267:p.:hp1.Note&colon.:ehp1. If you select another language here, it will not
268change until you restart the program.
269
270:p.:hp1.Note&colon.:ehp1. If you want to translate &progname. to another
271language, you are very welcome to do so! Please see :link refid=helpwanted
272reftype=hd."Help wanted!":elink. for more info.
273
274.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
275.*fold00.*The snapshot window
276
277:h2 id=snapshot res=2300.The Snapshot window
278:p.This window provides a quick and easy way to take a capture, without
279the need to have the :link refid=mainwin reftype=hd.main window:elink.
280visible all of the time. Just click inside the snapshot window with the
281mouse (button 1) and &progname. will take a capture of the type you can
282select on the appropriate page in the :link refid=settings2
283reftype=hd.settings window:elink. (or from the context menu that pops up
284when you click this window with mousebutton 2).
285
286:p.You may size and position (click with mousebutton 2 and drag it
287around) the window as you like, the size and position will be saved and
288restored when you start &progname. again.
289
290:p.When using the :link refid=mainwin reftype=hd.delayed capture:elink. or
291:link refid=settings3 reftype=hd.serial capture:elink. feature, this
292window will also show the amount of seconds left until the (next) capture
293will start. You may cancel the capture simply by clicking this window.
294
295.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
296.*fold00.*Commandline arguments
297:h1 id=cmdlineargs res=3000.Commandline arguments
298:p.In the "Properties" notebook of &progname.'s WPS object or when
299starting &progname. from the command line, you may give the following
300parameters&colon.
301
302:dl break=all tsize=5.
303
304:dt.:hp2.-q:ehp2.
305:dd.This will make &progname. come up in "quiet mode"&colon.
306
307:ul.
308:li.The main window will remain hidden/minimized (unless you show/restore
309it using the window list e.g.).
310
311:li.You may use the "PrintScreen" key to make a capture of a region of the
312screen (For some reason this does not work when a VIO (textmode) window
313has the focus).
314
315:li.:link refid=settings3 reftype=hd.Serial capture:elink. will be
316disabled by default.
317
318:li.If "Prompt for filename" was selected on the :link refid=settings1
319reftype=hd.Saving page:elink. in the settings window, it will be changed
320to "Autosave to numbered files ...".
321
322:eul.
323:p.You may give a valid path after this switch to tell &progname. to what
324directory the captured image(s) should be written to. If you do not give a
325path here, the one you entered on the Saving page in the settings window
326will be used.
327
328:p.:hp1.Example:ehp1.&colon. If you type "gotcha -q c&colon.\bmps" on the
329command line, &progname. will save all the files to the directory
330"c&colon.\bmps".
331
332:dt.:hp2.-a:ehp2.
333:dd.Kind of a "batch mode" switch.
334
335:ul.
336:li.&progname. will not show any windows but just take a capture of
337the whole screen, save it to disk and exit.
338
339:li.:link refid=settings3 reftype=hd.Serial capture:elink. and :link
340refid=mainwin reftype=hd.delayed capture:elink. will be disabled by
341default.
342
343:li.If "Prompt for filename" was selected on the :link refid=settings1
344reftype=hd.Saving page:elink. in the settings window, it will be changed
345to "Autosave to numbered files ...".
346
347:eul.
348:p.You may give a valid path after this switch to tell &progname. to what
349directory the captured image should be written to.
350
351:p.:hp1.Example:ehp1.&colon. If you type "gotcha -a c&colon.\" on the
352command line, &progname. will save the captured image to the directory
353"c&colon.\". If you do not give a path here, the one you entered on the
354Saving page in the settings window will be used.
355
356:dt.:hp2.-f:ehp2.
357:dd.With this switch you can set the :link refid=settings1
358reftype=hd."Force saving to file ..." option:elink. from the command line.
359You may give a valid filename after this switch to tell &progname. to what
360file the captured image should be written to. If you do not give a
361filename here, the one you entered on the Saving page in the settings
362window will be used.
363
364:edl.
365
366.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
367.*fold00.*Past, present + future
368:h1 id=pastpresentfuture res=5000.Past, present &amp. future
369:p.This section provides info about the history of &progname., some info
370about (bugs in) the current release and things that may be added or changed
371in the future.
372
373.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
374.*Version history
375:h2 id=history.Version history :p.Here you can see what was added or changed
376in the different versions of the program.
377
378:dl break=all tsize=5.
379
380:dt.:hp2.Version 1.78:ehp2.
381:dd.Serial capture delay is now in seconds/20 instead of seconds. Settings
382will automatically adjusted at first start of new program version.
383
384:dt.:hp2.Version 1.77:ehp2.
385:dd.A few changes to the Czech language resources and they are now also
386under the GPL. Thanks again to Tomas Hajny.
387
388:dt.:hp2.Version 1.76:ehp2.
389:dd.So I actually *did* produce a new version of Gotcha! - though it
390is basically only a bugfix release.
391:ul compact.
392:li.Fixed one bug in savebmp.cpp, while building the file comment in
393SetEAs() the value given to ctime was just a time_t, not a &amp.time_t as
394required. Might this have been responsible for some of the SYS3175 errors
395that occured?
396:li.Added missing list end tag in portbras.ipf
397:li.Got rid of two compiler warnings.
398:eul.
399
400:dt.:hp2.Version 1.75:ehp2.
401:dd.Just a little bugfix release (though I wasn't able to fix all
402the bugs I wanted).
403:ul compact.
404:li.&progname. did not start, if OS/2 MMIO was not installed, because
405the library was not loaded at runtime, but still statically at program
406start. This is fixed now.
407:eul.
408
409:dt.:hp2.Version 1.73:ehp2.
410:dd.Actually I wanted the next version to be 2.0 but due to my lack of
411time it just took too long, so I decided to do this "intermediate release"
412to fix some bugs and implement one of the most requested features&colon.
413:ul compact.
414:li.&progname. is now free software under the GPL
415:li.Czech language support (program only).
416:li.Italian language support (program and part of the online help).
417:li.&progname. can now save images to many more formats if OS/2 Multimedia is
418installed.
419:li.Fixed several small bugs
420:eul.
421
422:dt.:hp2.Version 1.65:ehp2.
423:dd.Wamm Bamm Thank you M'am! &progname. goes Brazil! Apart from that&colon.
424:ul compact.
425:li.German language support.
426:li.Option to run &progname. at idle priority.
427:li.Position of the main window will be saved automatically now.
428:li.The snapshot window got a nice context menu.
429:li.Fixed a bug that disabled capturing a screen region with the snapshot
430window.
431:eul.
432
433:dt.:hp2.Version 1.45:ehp2.
434:dd.More users' suggestions and more ideas of my own - and I hope less
435bugs &colon.-) This is what v1.45 offers&colon.
436:ul compact.
437:li.The length of the "delayed capture" delay is now configurable.
438:li.When waiting for the capture when using "delayed capture", you may
439have &progname. output a beep for every second. The countdown is also shown
440in the :link refid=snapshot reftype=hd.snapshot window:elink..
441:li."Serial capture" feature that allows you to automatically have &progname.
442make a capture every n seconds.
443:li.You may now select, if &progname. prompts you for a filename when saving
444or automatically saves to numbered files or always saves to a file you specify.
445:li.You may now tell &progname. to make a capture of the whole screen and then
446exit from the :link refid=cmdlineargs reftype=hd.commandline:elink..
447:li.You may now choose, in which of three available bitmap file formats the
448images should be saved. The code for saving has totally been re-written and
449the images should now load correctly everywhere.
450:li.&progname. now sets the correct filetype extended attribute for all
451saved bitmaps.
452:li.You may now turn off the sound, that tells you that the capture is done.
453:li.A nice :link refid=settings reftype=hd.settings window:elink. for all
454these options.
455:li.The :link refid=snapshot reftype=hd.snapshot window:elink. allows
456quick and easy capturing without the need to have the main window visible
457all of the time.
458:eul.
459
460:dt.:hp2.Version 1.10:ehp2.
461:dd.Since there were some small bugs in v1.00 and users (as users are ;-)
462wanted several things added, v1.10 was released. Changes include&colon.
463:ul compact.
464:li.Added the "quiet mode" (See :link refid=cmdlineargs reftype=hd.command
465line arguments:elink. section for more info about this).
466:li.Fixed (hopefully ;-) the bug that caused &progname. to hang on some computers
467when trying to capture window (interiors).
468:li.Fixed (eventually ;-) the bug that prevented some programs (PMView e.g.) from
469loading bitmaps saved by &progname. correctly.
470:li.Fixed (presumably ;-) a bug that caused &progname. to save bitmaps with
47116 or 256 colors using only 2 colors (why do all the example programs that
472I have assume that all bitmaps just use 2 colors??).
473:li.Added an option to automatically add the "bmp" extension to the filename,
474if the user does not (want to) supply it.
475:li.Added an option to have &progname. confirm the overwriting of already
476existing files.
477:eul.
478
479:dt.:hp2.Version 1.00:ehp2.
480:dd.This was the first public version of &progname..
481
482:edl.
483
484.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
485.*fold00.*Bugs
486
487:h2 id=bugs.Known bugs
488:p.After the release of v1.00, my assumption about &progname. being my yukkiest
489code for the past few years proved right, as even the bugs were buggy! ;-)
490
491:ul.
492
493:li.One user couldn't open the settings window on a Warp 3 system; &progname.
494just exited. Problem is being investigated.
495
496:li.Another user has problems on his eCS system&colon. When saving GIFs,
497the program just hangs using the CPU to 100%. Also when pressing
498"Ok" in the settings window, &progname. just exits. After much debugging I
499found out that these problems occur *inside* the mmioWrite() and
500WinDestroyWindow() system functions! I have no idea what to do against
501this.
502
503:li.I have not been able to get saving the capture as a Jpeg to work. On
504some machines the OS/2 multimedia routine I use for opening the file returns
505some meaningless error, on some other machines it even crashes. If anybody
506has some more info about saving images using OS/2 multimedia, please contact
507me. I have not been able to find any documentation about this subject (except
508from the stuff shipped with VisualAge C++ 3.0 but that's not very good
509either as it seems to be targeted at people who already know how the whole
510thing works ... &colon.-(
511
512:li.The code for bringing the window to the top (when taking a capture of
513a window or window interior) is not very good and may not work correct
514from time to time.
515
516:p.I wanted to start the capture only when the window is fully painted
517(i.e. all parts that were hidden by other windows are redrawn) but as
518there is no way (at least I know of none) to check when the "bringing on
519top" is finished other than checking repeatly if it is the topmost window
520by now, this routine will not work if there is a floating window on the
521screen, as the to be captured window will never be the topmost window
522then.
523
524:p.The routine currently tries to wait for the window to come on top, but
525if this has not happened for 1.5 seconds, the capture will start anyway.
526Yukky, I know, but what can I do?
527
528:li.Not really a bug, but&colon. Doing a screencapture in quiet mode (using
529the PrintScreen key) does not work, if a VIO (textmode) window has the focus.
530The author is heavily trying to ignore this problem, but eventually it will
531be fixed nevertheless someday ;-)
532
533:li.Not really a bug too, but still a little bit annoying&colon. One user
534reported, that the background colors of the controls do not match with the
535background color of the main window on his system. I tried to fix this by
536checking what bg color the controls use and paint the window bg with exactly
537that color, but it still seems not to work!?!? I've no idea what to do
538about this ...
539
540:eul.
541
542.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
543.*fold00.*Future enhancements
544
545:h2 id=future.Future enhancements
546:p.Well, there's still a few things that users requested and that will be
547added a long time ago in a galaxy far away ... aarg, a future version I
548mean ;-)
549
550:ul.
551:li.Remote control feature, that allows you to control &progname.
552from other processes using a named pipe.
553:li.Allow to specify the window to capture by its name.
554:eul.
555
556.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
557.*fold00.*Disclaimer & legal stuff
558
559:h1 id=disclaimer.Disclaimer &amp. legal stuff
560:p.Following are the usual disclaimers. For those of you, who have read them
561far too many times, here is just the short version&colon.
562
563:p."I didn't do it! I didn't do it! Butthead did it!" ;-)
564
565:p.Everyone else, please read this and keep in mind&colon.
566
567:p.Though this program has been tested quite a lot, there may still be lots
568of bugs in it (even serious ones - though I do not think so). Do not blame
569me, if this program screws up your files or whatever.
570
571:p.:hp2.YOU ARE USING THIS PROGRAM AT YOUR OWN RISK!:ehp2. I don't take any
572responsibillity for damages, problems, custodies, marital disputes,
573etc. resulting from use, inability to use, misuse, possession or
574non-possession of this program directly or indirectly.
575I also don't give any warranty for bug-free operation, fitness
576for
577a particular purpose or the appropriate behaviour of the program
578concerning animals, programers and little children.
579
580:p.THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
581IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
582WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
583PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE
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585ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
586
587:p.Or, in a few words&colon.
588If its good, I am responsible.
589If its bad, its all your fault. ;-)
590
591:p.Permission is granted to redistribute this program free of charge,
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597
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600
601:p.(Strange, this sections is getting longer and longer with every
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603
604.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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607:h1 id=gpl.GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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609:lines.
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890
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896
897 To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
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902 <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
903 Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
904
905 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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908 (at your option) any later version.
909
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918
919
920Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
921
922If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
923when it starts in an interactive mode&colon.
924
925 Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
926 Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
927 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
928 under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
929
930The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
931parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may
932be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
933mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
934
935You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
936school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
937necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names&colon.
938
939 Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
940 `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
941
942 <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
943 Ty Coon, President of Vice
944
945This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
946proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
947consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
948library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
949Public License instead of this License.
950
951:elines.
952
953.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
954.*fold00.*Author & Gotcha! homepage
955
956:h1 id=author.Author &amp. &progname. homepage
957:p.:hp7.Author:ehp7.
958
959:dl break=all tsize=5 compact.
960
961:dt.:hp2.Snail mail:ehp2.
962:dd.Thorsten Thielen c/o Sascha Weber, Postfach 3928, 54229 Trier, Germany
963
964:dt.:hp2.e-Mail:ehp2.
965:dd.&email1.
966
967:dt.:hp2.WWW:ehp2.
968:dd.&www.
969
970:edl.
971
972:artwork name='src\data\teamlogo.bmp' align=center.
973:p.Proud member of Team OS/2 Region Trier (:hp1.www.teamos2.ipcon.de:ehp1.),
974the makers of the "Team Trier Collection"-CDROM.
975
976:lm margin=1.
977:p.
978Suggestions and bug-reports are always welcome. Well ... bug-reports
979are perhaps not :hp1.that:ehp1. welcome ... ;-)
980:p.
981.br
982:hp7.&progname. homepage:ehp7.
983:p.Visit the &progname. homepage for info and new versions&colon.
984&www./gotcha
985
986.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
987.*fold00.*Help wanted!
988:h1 id=helpwanted.Help wanted!
989:p.Now that &progname. supports other languages, I of course want to include
990as many as possible. The problem is that I only speak english and german well
991enough to do a translation &colon.-) So if anybody out there wants to
992translate &progname. to a new language you are gladly welcome to do so!
993
994:p.I have included the source for the helpfile and program ressources in a
995seperate ZIP archive ('language.zip'). Just take the *.rc and *.hlp file of
996your choice and go to work! &colon.-) If you have any questions, feel free to
997:link refid=author reftype=hd.ask me:elink.!
998
999:p.If you haven't got the time to do (or just don't feel like doing ;-) a
1000"full" translation (i.e. program and online help) you may only translate
1001the program ressources (dialogs, menus, some messages) as well of course!
1002That would be of much help already ...
1003
1004.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
1005.*fold00.*Credits
1006
1007:h1 id=credits.Credits
1008:p.I wish to thank the following people, for their help and support with
1009&progname.&colon.
1010
1011:ul.
1012:li.The sources of PM/Capture OS/2 provided some very helpful examples of how
1013to do certain things (capture screen to bitmap, saving a bitmap). Thanks to
1014whoever wrote it (there's no name given ...)
1015:li.As many of my programs, &progname. also uses a few lines of code (for
1016inserting items in the system menu) from :hp1.Richard Papo's:ehp1. excellent
1017"MemSize" systemressources monitor. (You can find out more about MemSize at
1018http&colon.//www.msen.com/~rpapo).
1019:li.Many thanks for the translation to (Brazilian) Portuguese go to
1020&Ea.rico Mascarenhas Mendon‡a.
1021:li.Many thanks for the translation to Italian to Alberto Gabrielli.
1022:li.Many thanks for the translation to Czech to Tomas Hajny.
1023:li.Many thanks go to all users of &progname. for notifying me of bugs (and
1024"bug bugs" ;-), suggesting interesting new features and testing!
1025:eul.
1026
1027.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
1028.*fold00.*Registering
1029:h1 id=register."Registering"
1030.*:p. if you are satisfied with what &progname. 1.67 offers, you are free to keep
1031.*using this version ... but please keep in mind that it lacks many useful
1032.*functions that are present in newer versions and that it is not supported
1033.*any longer!
1034:p.&progname. is now released under the GPL, but as I'd still like to know
1035who uses my programs, the following still applies &colon.-)
1036
1037:p.You can become a registered user for &progname. just by :link
1038refid=author reftype=hd.sending an e-mail (or postcard or whatever) to
1039me:elink.. Actually this is required, if you use &progname. (more than once a
1040year or so ;-). Just write something like "Hi, I use your program &progname.!"
1041and I'm satisfied. If you do :hp1.not:ehp1. want to be included in the mailing
1042list for news and infos about &progname. do not forget to tell me!
1043
1044But I think there are some people out there who have seen &progname.,
1045worked with it for a while but just don't want to register by writing me a
1046mail. Well, for you I've assembled this list of ...
1047:p.:hp2.The Top 10 reasons why not to register &progname.:ehp2.
1048
1049:ul compact.
1050
1051:li.In my opinion, &progname. is a pretty bad program. I don't like the buttons,
1052the window or the other stuff it offers. I even heard, that there once really
1053was found a bug! Not to mention the crappy support; writing an e-mail to get
1054help is far to complicated.
1055
1056:li.I'm totally satisfied with anything that &progname. 1.45 offers. I'll
1057find my own workarounds for this bugs that might be discovered! I'm never
1058going to use whatever features might be added! So spare me by your updates ...
1059
1060:li.Who cares for info on new releases? Why should I get on yet another of
1061these mailing-lists? My mailbox is overflowing on a regular base and I'm
1062daily checking the "incoming" directory of Hobbes anyway!
1063
1064:li.I just can't spare the time to write a mail to you! See, I've got a job,
1065a wife, 10 kids or so, a girlfriend, a car, a house, a swimming pool and
10661000 desktops that I still haven't captured, so I'm really busy night
1067and day! I really don't want to think of what I would miss in this lost five
1068minutes ...
1069
1070.*:li.$10 is far too much money for this program! For this big amount I could,
1071.*well, buy half of an audio CD! I could go out to dinner with my friend (well,
1072.*at least if we have already eaten before). I could think of thousand things
1073.*more ...
1074
1075:li.Why should I make you feel that it's a good thing to develop software for
1076OS/2? There are far to many programs for OS/2 already, we don't want to get
1077the market oversupplied, do we?
1078
1079:li.There are lot's of other programs out there, that do the thing! Well ok,
1080maybe they don't have that nice PM interface, might be that they are lacking
1081a lot of the functionallity that &progname. offers and maybe actually there
1082are only one or two of them, but at least I don't have to spend hours and
1083hours writing longish mails to their authors!
1084
1085:li.I don't find supporting the mailware concept of any use. Developers
1086giving away fully working programs and then hoping that someone actually will
1087write a mail when using them, when (s)he can get away without, are an all too
1088trustfull bunch of fools!
1089
1090:li.Why should I try to support OS/2 software? OS/2 is dead, believe me!
1091"I'm Bill Gates of MicroBorg. This OS will be assimilated. Development is
1092futile."
1093
1094:li.The idea of kidnapping innocent pixels from the screen and imprisoning
1095them in stupid, useless, conformistic bitmaps violates my religious and
1096moral beliefs! People providing the means to allow such terrible crimes are a
1097shame to the whole society of computer users! This is most surely another proof
1098of the depravity of the modern world. Things like that would never have been
1099possible back in the good old days ... [Author's note&colon. You bet! Ever
1100tried to make a "screen capture" of a dinosaur's front-panel diagnostic
1101lights? ;-]
1102
1103:li.I can't write! I don't know how to send e-mail!! I don't even have an
1104account!!! And I'm using Windows!!!!
1105
1106:eul.
1107
1108.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
1109.*fold00.*Dedication
1110
1111:h1 id=dedication.Dedication
1112:p.:artwork name='src\data\rosaleen.bmp' align=center.
1113:hp2.
1114.ce Gotcha! is dedicated to Rosaleen.
1115:ehp2.
1116
1117.*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
1118
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