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Snap Shot 1.1 - PcS 1994

Introduction

Have you ever wondered how many bitmaps and/or icons are scattered around your harddisk and what a tedious job it is to find them if the need arises !  How will you find them ? And if you find them, is it the one you need ?

Don' t worry, Snap Shot is the answer for you and ... it will do more than just that ! Find out for yourself.

Overview

Commands

Interface

Selecting Files

View Screen - Navigation

Glossary

Request


Commands

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Exit

This ends the program after saving the defaults.

The default savings are the 'Drive' and 'Path', the 'Slide Show Interval' and the 'Slide Show Recycle Option' (if you exit the program by means of the Control Box in the upper left corner of the program, the defaults will NOT be saved !)

View

In selecting one or more files, you will get a View Window in which you can see the file(s) with actual dimensions.  Also activates the Slide Show if multiple files are selected.

Help

When you select this command,  you get to see the main help file.

When pressing function key 'F1' you will get text-consensitive help.


Interface Layout

Snap Shot Interface

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snapshot.bmp

Selecting a Drive

Click the 'Drive' Window to choose a drive.  If you select a drive which is not accessible at that time, Snap Shot will default to the drive and path on which the program resides on !

Selecting a Path

Click the 'Path' Window to choose a path for your files.

Selecting File(s)

Click the 'File(s)' Window by selecting one or more file(s) to view full screen.

The files (pictures) Snap Shot can display are: ICO, BMP, WMF, RLE

Refreshing File(s)

Click on the 'File(s)' label to refresh the files in the files list.

(e.g. if you previously edited one or more files, you will see the update)

Setting the Slide Show Interval

You can choose an interval from 1 to 60 seconds for which the file you are viewing remains visible on the view screen before it displays the next.

Setting the Recycle Option to true or false

Check the Recycle box to make the Slide Show continuous.

Picture View Box

If you selected a file, you will see the chosen file in the Picture Box (top middle).  If you selected several files, you'll only see the last one selected.

The picture will stretch or shrink to the size of the picture view box.

Left-clicking the mouse on the Picture Box will copy the Picture onto the Windows ClipBoard. (Icons are not supported though)

Right-clicking the mouse on the Picture Box will load the picture into the windows program 'PaintBrush'.

Picture Information Box

Located under the 'Picture View Box', this box will show information of the file you have selected (if you selected multiple files, information about the last one selected):

- File Name

- File Size

- Date of Creation or Modification

Moving the mouse around

When you move the mouse around, you will see the message-bar change to the information you need in that particular 'Box' the mouse resides on.


Selecting Files

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Selecting a Single File in the 'File(s) Box

With the Keyboard

A single file is selected by moving the Arrow keys to the desired file and then pressing the 'spacebar' key.

With the Mouse

Click on the desired file with the left mouse button.

Double-click the desired file to display it in the view screen

Selecting Succeeding Multiple Files in the 'File(s) Box'

With the Keyboard

To select succeeding multiple files, first press the 'spacebar' key on the first file you want, then hold down the 'Shift' key and press the 'Up' or 'Down' Arrowkeys.

With the Mouse

To select succeeding multiple files, click the first file you want and drag the mouse down while pressing the left mouse button.

Selecting Random Multiple Files in the 'File(s) Box'

With the Mouse only

Hold down the 'Ctrl' key and then click randomly (at will) on any of the files you want to view.


View Window

View Screen

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Picture Display

The picture is always centered in the middle of the view screen. If it is larger than the screen, the top of the picture will be centered top to the screen.

Navigation commands

Keyboard

press 'Esc(ape)': leave view screen

press 'Home': align picture to the left of the view screen

press 'End': align picture to the right of the view screen

press 'Page Up': align picture to the top of the view screen

press 'Page Down': align picture to the bottom of the view screen

press 'Arrowkeys': move picture left, right, down and up

press 'Enter (Return)': center picture in middle of the view screen

Mouse

Left-click view screen or Left-double-click picture: leave view screen

Left-click picture: show next picture in slide show (if multiple files selected)

Right-click picture: enlarge picture by 20 percent

Hold down the 'Shift' key and right-click picture: shrink picture by 20 percent

Hold down the 'Ctrl' key and right-click picture or clock: toggle large clock on/off


Glossary

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BMP

Bitmap files can be created with Windows' Paintbrush and used as "wallpaper" for the background when running Windows (see Interface for an example)

CLIPBOARD

The Windows ClipBoard is a windows environment where 'text' or 'pictures' are temporarily stored.  You can paste the contents from this ClipBoard into different applications you might be running.

ICO

Pictures with the extention '.ico' are Windows Icons that can be used to identify a file or program.

(e.g. snapico.ico)

INTERVAL

The number of seconds a selected picture is displayed before it jumps to the next.

MESSAGE BAR

You will see help information in the message bar, located under the commands line.

RECYCLE

After the last selected picture has been displayed, if the recycle option is checked, the slide show continues with the first picture again, then the next and so on.

RLE

Windows RLE files are Windows "DIB" (device independant bitmap) files that use one of the RLE compression routines. Thus, saving an image as a DIB or BMP, using one of the RLE compressions would produce an identical file as saving the image as an RLE file.  The only difference would be the file name extension.  An RLE image file may be used as a replacement opening screen for Windows.

(e.g. vgalogo.rle)

SLIDE SHOW

The selected pictures are displayed in succession for the number of seconds specified by the slide show interval.

TEXT-CONSENSITIVE

You get help related to the subject which the message bar is stating.

WMF

The WMF format is the Windows Meta File.  A meta file is not a bitmapped image like most of the other formats. Rather it is a series of graphical commands.  When you open a WMF file, the image may be rescaled to a new size.

(e.g. calc.wmf)


Request

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Since this program is free, I don't receive anything for it.  But it would give me a lot of pleasure if you would send me a postcard or a letter with your regards and/or your comments about the program.

I also welcome any suggestions as perhaps I will try to enhance the program in the near future:

- more file formats

- being able to choose a file editor

- ...

Write to:

PcS

Molenstraat 106

B - 2940 Hoevenen

Belgium

Thank you very much and enjoy the program !

This Help File was created by:

The Help Magician Version 1.12

Software Interphase, Inc.

by Robert B. Heberger