The subject of this tutorial is Multi-region capture. This means, as you've probably guessed, capturing more than one area of the screen, such as two rectangular portions of the same window, or even two different application windows at the same time.
You can use this powerful function for capturing a cascading menu, for example. This is a useful tool when creating documentation for software.
Here are the steps.
Hot key
confusion?
Note that if you've changed the HyperSnap-DX 5 hot keys, you'll
have to substitute yours for the default keys given here (and as they
are given within all examples).
Minimize the HyperSnap-DX 5 window to the task bar.
Open a cascading (that means multi-level) menu in another
program. For this example we'll use any Windows Explorer folder. Double-click
the My Computer icon and then
open any available hard disk drive's folder, and then open any folder
that shows at least a few file icons you can use for this purpose. The
Program Files folder is useful for this, typically.
Right-click on any convenient file's icon.
Choose File/Send to in order to get the menu open.
Press HyperSnap-DX 5's CTRL+SHIFT+M
hot key combination to start multi-region capture.
Click on each menu in turn, plus the main menu toolbar
(the one that shows File, Edit...)
Just to demonstrate the power of this feature, we'll
add another step: while you're still in Mutli-region capture mode switch
into Region mode.
Press and hold the right
mouse button, select Region and
draw a capture box around the pop-up menu as well as outlining something
else on the screen to capture that, too. (For example, outline a data
file's icon.)
Press the Enter
key on the keyboard to finish this capture.
Examine the content in HyperSnap-DX 5's window, and you'll see all regions captured with the default background color filling the area between them. (The color of this region is user-definable.)
Click here to read about capturing those tricky DirectX or Glide windows (such as from accelerated graphics board game screens).