Copyright: CloseUp © Oakley Publishing
Citation: Help File © Dana Cline


Caveats
What are the caveats?

We currently know of no bugs with this software.  We thought we found one, but it turned out to be a bug in Windows 3.1's Paintbrush program.

If you run CloseUp (or any other program that stays on top) on top of the Paintbrush window, if you move CloseUp's window, the program leaves ghost images in the Paintbrush window. This appears to be a bug in Paintbrush (it can be reproduced with other stay-on-top windows such as WinHelp) and seems to be caused by Paintbrush using the video adapter's display memory as a scratchpad.  The Windows 95 version of Paintbrush does not exhibit this behavior.


Contents
CloseUp 1.0 7/21/96

What is CloseUp?

How should it be used?

Who wrote it?

What's its future?

What are the caveats?


Credits

Program conception by Dana Cline & Jim Kyle

Coding by Jim Kyle 76703.762@compuserve.com

Help file and marketing by Dana Cline 102212.3111@compuserve.com

Jim Kyle is the Wizop on CompuServe's MSPROG forum, and a regular contributor to Windows Tech Journal and VB Tech Journal.

Dana Cline is the Wizop on CompuServe's WINSDK forum, and a regular contributor to VB Tech Journal and Software Development Magazine.


Enhancement
What's its future?

Well, that depends on you, the user.  We actively solicit feedback about bugs and desired features.  If there is enough interest, we will produce version 1.1 or even 2.0 if the additions justify.

One word of warning, however.  This version is freeware.  The next version, if there is one, is not likely to be freeware.  We would probably sell it as shareware, asking either $10 or $20 or some such pittance.  Send us email with your feature requests or bug reports.

Send email to Jim Kyle at 76703.762@compuserve.com or Dana Cline at 102212.3111@compuserve.com and we'll consider your requests.


Instruct
Instructions for use

When you run CloseUp by any of the standard methods, you will see a window on the screen. This window is set to stay on top of other applications, so you should remove it when you're no longer using it.  This can be done by clicking on the system menu box and picking Close from the menu, or by clicking the title bar button with the X in it under Windows 95.


Overview

CloseUp is a zoom utility for Windows 3.1 and 95.  It's purpose is to show you, in a window, exactly which pixel on the screen is under the mouse's hotspot, as well as an area of pixels surrounding it.  ( Think of it as KPIC - Key Pixel In Context).

It is designed to give the graphics artist absolute control down to the pixel level, and can be used with any Windows application.

CloseUp is a 16-bit program, but can work fine under Windows 95 and (probably) NT. It consists of one EXE, one DLL, a README.TXT file, and this help file.  Put them anywhere in your system...the only requirement is that the EXE and DLL reside in the same directory.