Changeset 54


Ignore:
Timestamp:
Jun 2, 2018, 12:36:00 AM (7 years ago)
Author:
Gregg Young
Message:

Update readme for version 2.00

File:
1 edited

Legend:

Unmodified
Added
Removed

  • trunk/english/README

    r18 r54  
    1 -- GOTCHA! 1.78 --
     1-- GOTCHA! GOTCHA! QUIET 2.00 --
    22
    3 Gotcha! is an OS/2 screen capture utility. It allows to capture either windows, window interiors, parts of the screen or the whole desktop and save them to disk in many image formats (if OS/2 Multimedia is installed) or clipboard. Serial capture and batch mode options are available.
     3Gotcha! is an OS/2 screen capture utility. It allows to capture either windows,
     4window interiors, parts of the screen or the whole desktop and save them to
     5disk in many image formats (requires GBM.DLL) or clipboard.
     6Serial capture and batch mode options are provided.
    47
    5 Since v1.73, Gotcha! is free software released under the GPL. See the file COPYING for details.
     8Gotcha Quiet is designed to replace the PM print screen facility and provides
     9the same functionality as Gotcha! but without a visible presence on the
     10Desktop.
    611
    7 As an exception the translation to Brazilian Portuguese
    8 (portbras.rc and portbras.ipf) is copyright by rico Mendon‡a.
    9 
    10 As another exception the Italian translation (italiano.rc and
    11 italiano.ipf) is copyright by Alberto Gabrielli.
    12 
     12Since v1.73, Gotcha! is free software released under the GPL. See the file
     13COPYING for details.
    1314
    1415-- INSTALLATION --
    1516
    16  If you've unzipped the archive (which seems to be the case, since you
    17 are reading this file ;-) and copied the files to some appropriate
    18 directory, you're almost done.
    19 
    20  The only thing else you'll have to do is to copy the file "gotcha.dll"
    21 to some directory in your LIBPATH (x:\OS2\DLL e.g.).
    22 
    23  You may run "install.cmd" to create a WPS-object for Gotcha!.
    24 
    25  Note that the actual executable is in the "distr" subdirectory;
    26 if you're not interested in developement, the files there are
    27 probably the only ones of interest for you.
    28 
     17Gotcha! and Gotcha! Quiet are distributed as a wpi archive. Use Warpin to
     18install/uninstall them. You should uninstall any versions prior to 2.00 either
     19with Warpin (if they were wpi archives) or manually. This is to avoid leaving
     20numerous old files in place since many of the file names have changed.
    2921
    3022-- BUILDING --
    3123
     24Gotcha! and Gotcha! Quiet are now built with Open Watcom. You will need
     25Open Watcom C/C++ 2.0 beta 3 or higher.
     26ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/open-watcom-c-os2-2.0-beta3.zip
     27You can build it with older versions of the OW compiler but will need
     28to change the makefiles to use RC.EXE and IPFC.EXE from the OS2 toolkit
     29in place of WRC.EXE and WIPFC.EXE. In order to build the Italian and
     30Brazilian Portuguese help files you need to copy IPFITA.NLS and IPFPTB.NLS
     31from the IPFC directory in the OS2 Toolkit to the Watcom\wipfc directory
     32and then rename them it_IT.nls and pt_BR.nls. Otherwise you need to use
     33IPFC.EXE to build these help files.
     34
     35You also need SED.EXE, LXLITE.EXE, PERL.EXE and the exceptq developer's package.
     36These are available from the netlabs RPM repository. Use ANPM to install them.
     37
     38The setup cmds setgot.cmd and setgoq.cmd require the 4OS2 shell.
     39
     40I use PMPrintf for debugging but it isn't necessary to build these.
     41http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=pmprintf&pushbutton=Search
     42
    3243Gotcha! was originally developed under OS/2 using emx/gcc 0.9d and
    33 dmake 4.0. I can't say if it would be hard to adjust it for other
    34 compilers or make utilities (though I guess it will need some work to port it to another OS due to missing seperation of program logic and system specific issues like e.g. windowing - aka: bad code). If you want to recompile the program, take a look at the Makefile and adjust the settings (probably only the "I" macro that tells where you keep your include files) and then just run dmake.
    35 
    36 The code is rather bad in most places and the whole program needs a
    37 major rewrite, which I have been working on for a long (time since
    38 the release of v1.65 in 1999!) but which is only very slowly progressing due to my permanent lack of time.
    39 
    40 Update May 2007: Forget about the rewrite; I have neither the time nor the user interest for it. Sorry!
    41 
    42 
    43 -- NOTE --
    44 
    45 If you get a SYS2070 error when starting this version of Gotcha! you have an old version of the file gotcha.dll somewhere in your LIBPATH.
    46 Delete it and everything should work.
    47 
    48 There also still seem to be some bugs/problems that cause a SYS3175
    49 on some systems. Unfortunatly I haven't been able to find out what the actual problem is or how to fix it. You might try an older version of Gotcha! (all still available on the homepage) but I don't think chances are high that one of those will work.
    50 
     44dmake 4.0.  If you want to recompile the program, take a look at the Makefile
     45and adjust the settings (probably only the "I" macro that tells where you
     46keep your include files) and then just run dmake. The emx makefiles are still
     47in the SVN but have not been tested with the version 2.00 changes
    5148
    5249-- MORE INFO --
    … …  
    5552
    5653Have fun!
    57 Thorsten Thielen <thth@c2226.de>
    58 (Member of Team OS/2 Region Trier e.V.)
    59 http://www.c2226.de/programs/gotcha/index.phtml
     54The Netlabs Gotcha! Team
     55"Gotcha! User Mailing List" <gotcha-user@2rosenthals.com>
     56http://trac.netlabs.org/gotcha
Note: See TracChangeset for help on using the changeset viewer.