HyperSnap-DX is Windows 95, 98 and NT screen capture tool. Unlike any other of such tools, it can capture not only standard desktop programs, but also multimedia and games running in DirectX/ Direct3D or 3Dfx Glide modes, and most video/dvd players. It can save and read pictures in over 20 graphics formats, including GIF (transparent and interlaced), JPEG (progressive) and much more. Use hotkeys or an autotimer to grab a desktop, hilited window or any area. Include cursor in images, crop, change colors and resolution, acquire from TWAIN devices. Auto scroll web pages and other long documents to capture more than you can see on the screen. Contains tons of other useful features. INSTALLATION ------------ Install this program by running the self-extracting archive, HySnap.exe or SETUP.EXE (e.g. double click on its icon). You will be prompted for the target folder, where HyperSnap-DX files will be installed. A HyperSnap-DX group (menu) will be created in your Windows 95 or NT Start menu, together with an "Uninstall" icon that will completely remove HyperSnap-DX if necessary. If the uninstall script file (UnHSDX.bat in your Windows directory) was accidently deleted, you may still completely uninstall HyperSnap-DX by running: hsdx -uninstall and then deleting its files and directory manually. To recreate HyperSnap-DX menu under Windows 95 "Start" button you may run again HySnap.exe, if you saved it, or just run: hsdx -install and enter the same directory where HyperSnap-DX is already installed. Register your copy of HyperSnap-DX by selecting "Register" under the program's Help menu, or from within the help menu. This program is a 'try before you buy' shareware program that relies on your support for continued development, and single user registration is only $25.00. When you register HyperSnap-DX you will receive a code that fully enables the software and become eligible for priority support. You will also be able to obtain free updates of the program through our Web page (address below) with which you can use your registration code, until the next major release. You may also purchase HyperSnap-DX licenses in our WEB Store on the Internet. It uses secure connection to insure privacy. Hyperionics Web Store accepts Visa, Master Card, American Express and Discover/Novus credit card payments. To register copies of HyperSnap-DX please use the "Register" program usually provided with HyperSnap-DX to make payments. We accepts different payment methods, including credit card and checks/money orders. You may also mail us your check or money order directly, provided that it is drawn on a US bank, payable to "Greg Kochaniak". Greg Kochaniak Hyperionics 3146 Chestnut Street Murrysville, PA 15668, USA e-mail: gregko@hyperionics.com http://www.hyperionics.com See also a list of international distributors on our Web site or in HyperSnap-DX help file. License cost for HyperSnap-DX 3: Single licenses: $25 each, or $7.50 upgrade from HyperSnap 2 Site license: $750, or $300 upgrade from HyperSnap 2 (Site licenses cover a single organization for an area of up to one hundred miles (160 km) in radius.) World-wide license: $2000 or $700 upgrade from HyperSnap 2 HyperSnap-DX may be also registered using CompuServe SWREG forum (GO SWREG) and search for HyperSnap-DX. The price for single user license over CompuServe is $27 due to the 15% charge they impose. Distribution is permitted provided you follow these instructions: You are free to make copies of the distribution archive (HYSNPxxx.ZIP or HySnap.exe) and pass it along to others for their evaluation provided that no modifications or additions are made to the software, its documentation, or any associated files, and it is not bundled in a distribution of any other software . Support is available through the addresses listed above, whether you are a registered user or not. Registered users receive priority treatment, of course. E-mail will always receive the quickest response. _______ ____|__ | (R) --| | |------------------- | ____|__ | Association of | | |_| Shareware |__| o | Professionals -----| | |--------------------- |___|___| MEMBER ============================================================ Changes log: As you can see, HyperSnap-DX receives continual attention as we listen to users' comments and suggestions to make it the best screen capture utility for Windows 95 and NT possible. Your input is always welcome. Greg Kochaniak, Hyperionics 3146 Chestnut Street, Murrysville, PA 15668, USA e-mail: gregko@hyperionics.com http://www.hyperionics.com 1998.12.31 HyperSnap-DX 3.30.00 Added the ability to capture images from hardware overlays, which are largely used in video software (e.g. DVD players). The limitation is again, that the overlay must have been created and managed with DirectX in the target program, otherwise we'll still capture only the color rectangle (the overlay key color). Good news is a new way to snap DirectX screens, including games, videos, DVD etc. It is no longer necessary to start HyperSnap-DX and enable DirectX capture first, before the target program. HyperSnap-DX can be started or stopped at any time, and it will capture these screens correctly. DirectX and Glide capture is now a lot more stable, should not cause game/computer crashes or lock-ups. Other changes: Added new "Quick Crop and Scale" function to Capture menu. Added "Toggle Cursor Capture" button to the toolbar. Added a setting to change picture resolution, in dots per inch (dpi). This setting affects how images are printed or pasted into other documents. Also added a "zoom" window for Region capture and crop operations, which lets you to see the area around the cursor under 3x or 4x magnification. Fixed a problem with color captures from 256 color applications using entire system palette. Fixed the problem under Windows 98, where selecting Region capture from the menu or when HS window was in front, did not permit you to use keyboard to control region selection. 1998.09.15 HyperSnap-DX 3.21.00 Added support to capture games using DirectX 6 technology. Corrected some small errors regarding saving files in EPS and other formats. 1998.08.05 HyperSnap-DX 3.20.00 Added ability to capture pictures from Glide 3.x applications. Selecting "DirectX and Glide Capture" now displays a dialog to actually choose DirectX/Direct3D and/or Glide capture technology, and set image post processing and gamma correction factor. Some more small fixes for Glide and DirectX captures. Added Gamma Correction, Rotate and Mirror options to the Image menu. Window close button will now only minimize HyperSnap-DX, and not completely exit it, if "Display Tray Icon" option is turned on. 1998.06.19 HyperSnap-DX 3.13.00 Earlier versions of HyperSnap-DX would sometimes hang when snapping pictures from high action games running in Glide mode on 3Dfx Voodoo2 and compatible hardware. This has now been fixed. Other small changes: now saving the last captured area between sessions, more command line options and other small fixes. 1998.05.19 HyperSnap-DX 3.12.00 Page Setup preview did not display correct scale for pictures loaded from files, if constant scaling factor was selected. Fixed full screen capture for some rare programs that use palettes in 8 bit color mode, that don't contain Windows static colors. Added "Optimized or Std. Windows" palette choices to Save As... options Added "Black and White" palette choice to "Color Resolution" on Image menu. 1998.04.22 HyperSnap-DX 3.11.00 New features: Quick Save function extended for auto-number and prompt for name options to work together. New "Black and White" palette setting under Image/Color Resolution Page Setup dialog extended in Scaling section, to set fixed scaling _or_ auto-fit, if the picture is too large for given scale. Bug fixes: occasional crash in Crop functions. Problem with printing some GIF files in constant scale factor. Occasional crash if Quick Save had an invalid file name. 1998.03.26 HyperSnap-DX 3.10.03 More small changes and bug fixes: print sometimes would not work. Added Esc button handling to Window capture, to let you interrupt it that way. Also space bar in Window capture now works the same as left mouse button - using it, e.g. when you click on a menu, will prevent the execution of this menu function. Made Quick Print and the Print button on the toolbar to start printing at once, instead of bringing up Print Dialog first. 1998.03.24 HyperSnap-DX 3.10.02 Minor fixes: Windows Metafile default extension was .wfm instead of .wmf. Printing margins did not work correctly (on Page Setup). Added saving of toolbar and status bar visibility and positions. Made Esc key abort Window Capture operation. Added toolbar icon for Page Setup. Some more small fixes like that. 1998.03.13 HyperSnap-DX 3.10.00 Major update with many new features. You may now get HyperSnap-DX in Basic or Pro version. New features in HyperSnap-DX 3.10 Basic version: New style of File/Open and File/Save dialogs. New, powerful Page Setup dialog with a preview of how your picture will be printed. Toolbar with one click shortcuts to the most used menu functions, which you may turn off if you don't like it. Crop-out function to select rectangular areas from your picture and turn them to white (or other "paper" color). Useful e.g. to edit out unwanted parts when capturing cascading menus. Support for Print Screen hot key, e.g. to capture screen savers, that are turned off by any other hot keys. This will also capture DirectX and 3Dfx Glide screen savers, if "DirectX and Glide Capture" option is turned on. New filter function if capturing pictures from 3Dfx controller to improve their quality (both Glide and DirectX/Direct3D mode). New features in HyperSnap-DX 3.10 Pro version - all of the Basic version plus: Support for reading and writing of over 20 graphics formats, including BMP, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PCX and many more. Image maniuplation routines: resize, change color resolution, convert to gray scale or dither to black and white. More image manipulation routines will be added here in later releases. Acquire images from devices supporting TWAIN protocol (e.g. scanners, digital cameras). 1997.12.09 HyperSnap-DX 3.08.00 Added saving on exit of the last disk folder (directory) used in File/Save As or File/Open and restoring it on next run. Added two command line options: -nosetdir and -nosavedir to preserve the old behaviour if necessary. Fixed: bottom margin in printing was not set correctly (right margin value was used instead). 1997.11.13 HyperSnap-DX 3.07.00 Added ability to capture screens from Win32 games using GLIDE (3Dfx) technology. Improved DirectX captures - no more color shifts and less crashes. 1997.10.14 HyperSnap-DX 3.06.00 Pasting HyperSnap-DX pictures into some programs, e.g. Lotus Notes, would produce black picture. Fixed. Fixed auto-scroll for MS Office 97 and Internet Explorer 4 1997.08.07 HyperSnap-DX 3.05.01 Bug fix - in Quick Save mode, if the time between the captures was long, there were problems starting the Explorer and some other applications on Windows 95. Also fixed: pressing a hot key in Quick Save timed mode will abort the mode promptly, without waiting for the next auto-snap to happend. 1997.07.18 HyperSnap-DX 3.05 (there was no public rel. of 3.04) Added "Send by Email" item to the file menu. With MAPI enabled mailer this will let you send the current picture to any email recipient as GIF, BMP or JPEG file attachment. Prepared HyperSnap-DX for localization (translation into other languages) Fixed a problem in saving BMP files: if the file was loaded from disk or saved with some options, changing BMP options (color depth) had no effect. Added information about Hyperionics Web Store to "About" and "Register" boxes. 1997.05.21 HyperSnap-DX 3.03 Added "Continue on error" check box to Quick Save dialog, so that Quick Save is not aborted on a file error like "file busy" if you want to save to the same file and e.g. continue pushing it to a WEB server. Added "Center Image on Page" to "Page Setup" dialog. 1997.05.05 HyperSnap-DX 3.02 Worked around a bug in Word 97 - it would not paste correctly some of our 256 color DIB pictures (displayed big red X instead). 1997.04.25 HyperSnap-DX 3.01 On capture menu, if Quick Save item is checked on, and you click on it while holding the Shift key on the keyboard, this will pop up Quick Save setup dialog again, instead of checking the item off. Fixed: Page Up/Down keys would not work correctly if you started HyperSnap-DX with file name argument (to view the file) in a current directory. Fixed: Page Up/Down keys would not display files in alphabetical order on Windows 95 (or FAT partitions under NT). 1997.04.16 HyperSnap-DX 3.00 Final Release of version 3.00. (List of chages from SnapShot/32 and HyperSnap 2 releases deleted)