Changeset 19 for trunk/english

Timestamp:

Feb 27, 2018, 7:21:16 PM (8 years ago)

Author:

Gregg Young

Message:

Help updates mostly removed "bugs" I have fixed or have insufficient information about to address.

File:

• trunk/english/gotcha_en.ipf (modified) (6 diffs)

trunk/english/gotcha_en.ipf

@@ -9 +9 @@
 :artwork name='..\data\gotcha.bmp' align=center.
 :p.&progname. is a small (well, not :hp1.that:ehp1. small any more)
-utility for OS/2 which allows to easily capture windows, window interiors,
+utility for OS/2 which allows you to easily capture windows, window interiors,
 parts of the screen or the whole desktop and save them to disk or
-clipboard as a picture (in many image formats, depending on what MMOS/2
-can do).
-
-.* FIXME
-.* changed from: 
-(bitmap format)
-.* changed to:
-(in many image formats, depending on what MMOS/2 can do).
+clipboard. Many image formats are available. Installation of Heiko Nitzsche's
+GBM.dll is now required to generate these images.
 
 :p.&progname. also has features for automatically making a capture every n
-seconds or making a capture of the whole screen and then exit (for
+seconds or making a capture of the whole screen and then exiting (for
 commandline scripts e.g).
 
-:p.I wrote &progname. mainly because all other screen capture programs for
-OS/2 that I found were either really old and/or part of some big other
-program and/or buggy and/or not free.
+:p.&progname. was originally written mainly because all other screen capture 
+programs for OS/2 that he found were either really old, not free, buggy 
+and/or part of a larger program.
 
 :p.:hp2.What's new?:ehp2.
@@ -33 +27 @@
 history:elink. to see what features have been added in the various releases.
 
-:p.If there are more things that would fit into the program, send me your
-comments about what you would like to have ... (though I do not promise
-anything ;-).
-
-:p.:hp2."Registering":ehp2.
-
-:p.&progname. is now released under the GPL, but as I'd still like to
-know that it is used, the :link
-refid=register reftype=hd."The Top 10 reasons why not to register &progname."
-:elink.;-) still apply.
+:p.If there are more things that would in the program, send your
+comments about what you would like to have. Send your comment to the user
+mail list or submit a ticket. You will find the contact details 
+:link refid=author reftype=5005.here:elink..
 
 .*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -48 +36 @@
 
 :h1 id=windows res=2000.The windows
-:p.This section informs you about the various windows of &progname., what
-functions they offer and how to use them.
+:p.This section shows you the functionality of the various windows 
+and how to use them.
 
 .*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -55 +43 @@
 
 :h2 id=mainwin res=2.The main window
-:p.Though I think &progname. is pretty simple to use, I'll write a short
-description for every of the controls&colon.
+:p.Though &progname. is pretty simple to use, We'll write a short
+description for each control&colon.
 
 :dl break=all tsize=5.
@@ -493 +481 @@
 :ul.
 
-:li.One user couldn't open the settings window on a Warp 3 system; &progname.
-just exited. Problem is being investigated.
-
-:li.Another user has problems on his eCS system&colon. When saving GIFs,
-the program just hangs using the CPU to 100%. Also when pressing
-"Ok" in the settings window, &progname. just exits. After much debugging I
-found out that these problems occur *inside* the mmioWrite() and 
-WinDestroyWindow() system functions! I have no idea what to do against 
-this.
-
-:li.I have not been able to get saving the capture as a Jpeg to work. On
-some machines the OS/2 multimedia routine I use for opening the file returns
-some meaningless error, on some other machines it even crashes. If anybody
-has some more info about saving images using OS/2 multimedia, please contact
-me. I have not been able to find any documentation about this subject (except
-from the stuff shipped with VisualAge C++ 3.0 but that's not very good 
-either as it seems to be targeted at people who already know how the whole
-thing works ... &colon.-(
-
 :li.The code for bringing the window to the top (when taking a capture of
 a window or window interior) is not very good and may not work correct
@@ -527 +496 @@
 if this has not happened for 1.5 seconds, the capture will start anyway.
 Yukky, I know, but what can I do?
-
-:li.Not really a bug, but&colon. Doing a screencapture in quiet mode (using
-the PrintScreen key) does not work, if a VIO (textmode) window has the focus.
-The author is heavily trying to ignore this problem, but eventually it will
-be fixed nevertheless someday ;-)
 
 :li.Not really a bug too, but still a little bit annoying&colon. One user