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SuperClip (tm) 3.15, Shareware Edition
Screen Capture System for Microsoft Windows
Copyright 1994-96 AndroSoft (tm). All Rights Reserved.
This distribution includes sclip16.exe for Windows 3.1,
and sclip32.exe for Windows 95 and Windows NT.
CONTENTS
Introduction ............................................. 1
Installation - Windows 3.1 ............................... 2
Installation - Windows 95 and Windows NT ................. 2
Capturing the Windows Screen ............................. 3
Capturing the DOS Screen ................................. 4
Cropping the Clipboard Image ............................. 5
File Menu Item: Save as BMP .............................. 6
Save as GIF .............................. 6
Save as PCX .............................. 6
Save as TIF .............................. 6
Save as TXT .............................. 6
Open BMP ................................. 6
Main Menu Item: Display .................................. 7
Options Menu : Capture rectangle ........................ 7
Clear clipboard .......................... 7
Enter coordinates ........................ 7
Invert colors ............................ 7
Popup mode ............................... 7
Reverse x-axis ........................... 7
Reverse y-axis ........................... 8
Stretch bitmap ........................... 8
Text colors .............................. 8
Text to bitmap ........................... 8
TIF compression .......................... 8
Main Menu Item: Print .................................... 8
Help Menu ................................................ 8
Registration ............................................. 9
Legal Notices ............................................10
AndroSoft Home Page ......................................11
APPENDIX - VESA modes supported by DosClip ...............12
Introduction
SuperClip is a clipboard viewer that can save all or part of the
image on the clipboard to a graphics file in BMP, GIF, PCX, or
TIF format. In Windows, the entire screen can be captured to
the clipboard at any time by pressing the PrtSc key (Shift+PrtSc
on 84-key keyboards), or just the currently active window by
pressing Alt+PrtSc. Text can also be captured to the Windows
clipboard by pressing PrtSc while a DOS program is running full-
screen in text mode. SuperClip can save clipboard text to an
ASCII file or to a monochrome graphics file.
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The SuperClip package includes a utility named DosClip that works
in conjunction with SuperClip to capture to the Windows clipboard
the entire screen from a DOS graphical application that is run-
ning full-screen in a DOS session under Windows.
Installation - Windows 3.1
To install SuperClip into Windows 3.1 from a floppy disk, select
"Run" from the File menu of Program Manager and enter "a:setup"
or "b:setup," depending on which floppy disk drive you are using.
To install SuperClip from a ZIP file, un-ZIP SCLIP300.ZIP onto a
floppy disk and install from the floppy as already described. Or
you may un-ZIP SCLIP300.ZIP into an empty directory on your hard
disk for temporary storage, then select "Run" from the File menu
of Program Manager and enter the full path to setup.exe. The
name of the default directory into which setup will install the
SuperClip files is SCLIP, which should not be the name of the
directory you're installing from. Setup will now create the
program group SuperClip in Program Manager, after which you may
delete the files that were temporarily stored in the installation
directory.
To remove SuperClip from your computer, run setup and select the
"Remove" option.
Installation - Windows 95 and Windows NT
To install SuperClip into Windows 95 or Windows NT from a floppy
disk, select "Run" from the Start menu and enter "a:setup" or
"b:setup," depending on which floppy disk drive you are using.
To install SuperClip from a ZIP file, un-ZIP SCLIP300.ZIP onto a
floppy disk and install from the floppy as already described. Or
you may un-ZIP SCLIP300.ZIP into an empty directory on your hard
disk for temporary storage, then select "Run" from the Start menu
and enter the full path to setup.exe. The name of the default
directory into which setup will install the SuperClip files is
SCLIP, which should not be the name of the directory you're in-
stalling from. Setup will now insert the SuperClip icon into the
Programs folder of the Start menu, after which you may delete the
files that were temporarily stored in the installation directory.
To remove SuperClip from your computer, run setup and select the
"Remove" option.
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Capturing the Windows Screen
SuperClip was designed to run minimized in "popup" mode, mean-
ing it will pop up when you press the PrtSc key to capture the
entire screen, or Alt+PrtSc to capture the currently active
window. You can then save the entire image or any rectangular
portion. To return to the application that was interrupted,
simply click on that application's window or minimize SuperClip
again. You can turn popup mode off by pressing Ctrl+M, or by
clicking on "Popup" in the Options menu, which will remove the
checkmark next to this menu item.
SuperClip does not need to be running in order to make a screen
capture. Once you have pressed the PrtSc key, you can run Super-
Clip to display the clipboard. You can then save the entire
image or crop a rectangular area with the mouse or keyboard
before saving to disk.
To save a captured image to disk, choose the desired format from
the File menu. A dialog box will list the files of the selected
format in the current directory. You may select one of the files
listed or type a new file name in the edit box. You may also
switch to another directory or disk drive.
SuperClip will also display text captured to the clipboard by
pressing the PrtSc key while a DOS character-mode application is
running full-screen under Windows. Two character sets are avail-
able for the display of text, OEM and ANSI, which may be selected
from the Options menu. Text can be saved to an ASCII file or to
a monochrome graphics file in BMP, GIF, PCX, or TIF format.
While in popup mode, SuperClip will also pop up when another
application puts onto on the clipboard a bitmap that is compa-
tible with SuperClip. The compatible formats are DDB (Device-
Dependent Bitmap) and DIB (Device-Independent Bitmap), two
commonly-used bitmap formats. If you attempt to save a clip-
board bitmap whose format is not one of these two, SuperClip
will respond with a dialog box that says "No bitmap exists on
the clipboard."
Because of the internal complexities of the popup feature,
SuperClip will not allow more than one instance of itself to
run. Clicking on the SuperClip icon will therefore activate a
currently-running instance if one exists, instead of launching
a new instance. This property can be put to good use if the
SuperClip window should become hidden by another window; click
its icon in the Start menu to make the SuperClip window visible.
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Capturing the DOS Screen
SuperClip can capture the screen to the Windows clipboard from
either a text or a graphical mode DOS application that is running
full-screen in a Windows DOS session. Normally, such captures
are made by pressing the PrtSc key. However, Windows is not
always able to capture the screen to the clipboard from a DOS
application that is displaying a full-screen graphical image.
In that case, Windows displays the message "Unable to copy screen
contents into clipboard." When this occurs, you can still make
the capture by activating DosClip, a utility that is included
with SuperClip.
Before you can use DosClip, you