Table Of Contents

Introduction

How Do I Capture a Screen?

What are those other menu options under the capture menu?

How Do I Edit what I have Captured?

Changing the brightness of the capture.

Changing the contrast of the capture.

Placing text on the capture.

Drawing on the capture.

How Do I Save what I have Captured?

How Do I Print what I have Captured?

How Do I Email what I have Captured?

How Do I Turn On The HotKeys? (Or “What is a hot key?”)


Introduction

Welcome to the latest version of this program. There have been some minor and major changes made to this program, which you may wish to know about.

We have modified several key graphic subroutines in the source code because we discovered that “prolonged usage of the earlier version of the program would result in a slight case of unnecessary resource consumption”. We felt that even such a minor defect warranted a new version. But being the kind of people we are, we decided to give you a bunch of new features.

We added some image enhancement features.

We also added a paintbrush, line tool, rectangle tool, and ellipse tool

We also put in hotkey functions.

We also added a Help File!

Enjoy the program


capturing
How Do I Capture a Screen?

The first step is to select “Capture” from the “Screen Capture” menu

This will cause the main Grabbit window to disappear and toolbar with 5 buttons to appear.

Second, select an area of the screen you want to capture by pressing the left mouse button on the top/left corner of the area you wish to capture, then dragging the mouse to the lower-right hand corner of the area, then releasing the button.

Thirdly, Click on the save button (it looks like a disk).

(by save I mean “save in memory”, not “save to disk”)

The buttons on this toolbar do the following.

Button 1: Select Area Button (red and green box)

This places you in “Select Area” Mode. When in this mode, press the left mouse button on the top/left corner of the area you wish to capture, then drag the mouse to the lower-right hand corner of the area, then release the button.

Button 2: Move Area Button (The 4 Way Arrow)

This places you in “Move Area” Mode. When in this mode, press the left mouse button inside the area of the screen you selected in “Select Area” mode, then drag the mouse around the screen (this will cause your selection area to move with the mouse), then release the button when the area is where you want it to be.

Button 3: Resize Area Button (Diagonal 2 way Arrow)

This places you in “Resize Area” Mode. When in this mode, press the left mouse button on the edge of the area of the screen you selected in “Select Area” mode, then drag the mouse around the screen (this will cause the edge of your selection area to resize with the mouse), then release the button when the area is resized.

Button 4: Cancel Button (Circle with line through it)

This closes down the capture toolbar and returns you to the main Grabbit 2 window, without storing the selected area of the screen.

Button 5: Save Button (Diskette button)

This closes down the capture toolbar and returns you to the main Grabbit 2 window, storing the selected area of the screen.


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What are those other menu options under the capture menu?

Under Capture menu, but before the hotkey menu, there are 3 other menus.

Repeat:	Works like the Capture Mode, but the last rectangular area you selected is still highlighted.

Fast Repeat:	Assumes that you want to capture the same rectangular area you selected, so it just captures that area of the screen.

Clear Capture:	Dumps from memory the capture you made.


editing
How Do I Edit what I have Captured?

We have several editing options available in this program. Not a massive amount, but this program is free and it’s small.

Changing the contrast of the capture

Changing the contrast of the capture is simple. Just go Edit Menu, down to the Effects menu, and across to the Contrast Menu. Choosing that will bring up a choose contrast window. The select with the sliding bar in that window how much or how little contrast you want, then click ok.

Changing the brightness of the capture

Changing the brightness of the capture is easy. Just go Edit Menu, down to the Effects menu, and across to the Brightness Menu. Choosing that will bring up a “choose brightness” window. The select with the sliding bar in that window how much or how little brightness you want, then click ok.

Placing text on the capture

First: Type in the text you want to have displayed by going to the “Edit  Text  Edit Text” menu. This brings up a text editing box. Just type the text you want into the white box, then click OK.

Second: Move the text to where you want it on the screen. Do this by pressing your left mouse button on the text, and dragging it to where you want it.

Third: Change the font or color of the text by going to the “Edit  Text  Font” menu. This will bring up your standard windows Font window. Just select the font you want and click OK.

(do not do this final step until you have the text where you want it. As long as this last step is not done, you are free to edit the text, change it’s font, color, or location )

Last (optional): If you want to have additional text segments on your capture, you will have to use the “Edit  Text  Merge Text with Graphic” menu. Doing this will make the text a part of the captured graphic, leaving you free to edit another text segment. However you will be unable to edit the merged text, except with the paint tools.

Drawing on the capture

Drawing on the captured image can be done with a variety of tools provided in the software. If you want to draw lines (straight or freehand), you select which paint tool you want to use from the “EditPaintTools” menu. If you want to draw a shape (rectangle or ellipse), you select that shape from the “EditPaintShapes” menu.

You can change the color of the pen from the “EditPaintPaint Color Menu”.

You can change the size of the pen from the “EditPaintPaintbrush Size”.

If you are drawing a rectangle or an ellipse, you can select whether or not you want it filled with a color from the “EditPaintShapesFilled?” menu. You can choose the color of the fill from the “EditPaintShapesFill color” menu


saving
How Do I Save what I have Captured?

No problem. Select the “FileSave” menu. Your standard windows “Save As” box will appear. Choose a name and click OK. Next a “Jpeg Quality” box will appear. Choose a “Quality Level” and click OK. The higher the quality, the less compression. The lower the quality, the higher the compression.


printing
How Do I Print what I have Captured?

Easily.

First, Grabbit 2 has the option of printing a “footer” on the bottom of your page. This can footer tell you the size of the graphic, the resolution you printed the graphic at, “This program was printed by Grabbit2” message, the date and time you printed it at, and a personalized message. To set this information, go to the “FilePrint Footer Information” menu. If it has a check box beside it, it means that your printout will have a footer. The window that appears when you select the ”Print Footer Information” menu has a number of check boxes which turn on or off segments of the Footer, or deactivates the Footer Completely. There is also a “Set Font” button, to set which font you want the Footer To Print as.

Now that you’ve setup your Footer, select the “FilePrint” menu. A standard windows print dialog box will appear. Select your printer and click OK. A box should eventually appear saying that your printout is complete. That’s it.


emailing
How Do I Email what I have Captured?

With this program, sending email is a snap. Selecting “FileEmail” menu will bring up the “Email Utility” window. There are several buttons and several text boxes on this window.

The first button that should concern you is the “Setup” button. This sets up your Email information. You should only have to set this up once. Clicking on this will bring up another window (called the “Email Setup” window) with 3 text boxes for setting your email name, email address, and your email server. This information will be drawn automatically out of Outlook Express if it is installed on your computer. If not you will have to set this information your self. Once this information is set, it will be saved and you shouldn’t have to set it again.

Once your “personal” information is set, You can continue with the Email Utility window. Set the Name and email of the address of the person you are sending this email to, as well as the subject of the email. The large box at the bottom of the window is for typing in some message to recipient of the email. Once that’s all done, click Send Email. That’s It.


hotkeys
How Do I Turn On The HotKeys? (Or “What is a hot key?”)

Hotkeys are shortcuts that allow you to use a command in a program without having that program as the active window on the screen. Lets say you’ve set your set the hotkey for “Capture” to be Ctrl-Alt-F2. You can then minimize Grabbit2, and use your computer until you see something you want to capture. Just Press Ctrl-Alt-F2 and Grabbit will act like you just selected the “Screen CaptureCapture” menu. A very convenient feature.

To Start/Setup your hotkeys, select the appropriate menu from the “Screen CaptureHotkeys” menu. You can set individual hotkeys for the “Capture”, “Repeat”, and “Fast Repeat” menus. When you’ve selected the menu for which command you want the hotkey for, a “Set Hot Key” window will appear. Use the checkboxes to set whether the “Ctrl”, “Alt”, or “Shift” keys will be part of the hotkey, and select which key you want (F1 – F12, A-Z). Then Click OK. Your hotkey is now set.