Copyright: ® Siegfried Weckmann


Program functions:

Print key

It prints out the screen.

ALT + print key

It prints out the current window.

Mouse click (onto the Hardcopy icon in the task bar)

It prints out the screen.

A click with the right mouse key onto this icon opens the Hardcopy window.

Windows 95(and)Windows NT

System prerequisites:

Windows 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups or Windows NT.

Possible applications:

- Documentation of bugs

- Documentation of programs

- Documentation for the revision / financial requirements

- Printouts in programs which contain no print function

Menus:

Menu file

Process menu

Menu settings

Questions / responses, tips us tricks

Registration

Installation

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The English help file is a machine translation please, excuse you that through it resulted bugs.


Menu Datei

Menu file

Opening

It opens a hardcopy file saved before (.hcp)

Saving

Pushes the loaded information in the bitmap or if adjusted GIF format was in the GIF format off.

Saving under

It stores the loaded information below a new name.

Printing

The loaded information is output to the printer.

Printer setup

With this function, you can select the desired printer.

If you want to output all future printouts to this printer, you can carry out this via the menu settings.

Last files

Opened before / prestored files.

Select an entry in order to open the desired file.


Menu Bearbeiten

Process menu

Copy

It copies the current information into the clipboard.

Pasting

It inserts a bitmap available in the clipboard.

Insert and print

It inserts a bitmap available in the clipboard and prints out this.


Menu Einstellungen

Menu settings

Printout 1:1

If you print out a screen or a window, the printout is extended to the corresponding page width. If you do not request this, you can select this setting.

Printout centered horizontal

Select this setting if you would like to center the printout horizontally.

Printout centered vertical

Select this setting if you would like to center the printout vertically.

Monochrome

With this function can you printouts in monochrome create.

Set the threshold value to 0 in order to deactivate this function.

This function is used:

•	if you want to output color printer to one monochrome,

•	if you want to reduce the load in the case of slow networks,

•	if you want to accelerate the printed output.

Saving under

With activate the print key or the ALT + the print key is not printed but the function saving under called.

•	In this way, you have the possibility to store one or several of these Hardcopy without printing this out.

•	It the created files e.g. can insert around a program documentation later into WinWord to generate.

Saving in the GIF format

If you store a file, the GIF format is used.

A normal hardcopy file in the bitmap format occupies approx. 2.300 KB'S in the GIF format are required merely 30-60 KB.

Print date

If you select this setting, date, time, PC-name and the user name is printed.

Delete clipboard

If you select this setting, the clipboard is deleted after the printout.

Network access

Network software is used for determination the PERSONAL COMPUTER name and the user name.

If this setting is not used, no printout of PC-name and user name occurs.

Use task bar

If you select this setting, Hardcopy in the task bar is made available. (among Windows 95 / NT)

- The left mouse button prints out the screen.

- The right mouse button opens the Hardcopy window.

Listing

If you select this setting, the function calls are recorded.

Is for possible necessary debugging required.

Display log file

The log file is displayed with the program NOTEPAD.

Printer name

If you select this setting, all printouts occur on this printer.

Please, use around an other one to select as a printer displayed here in the menu file the item printer setup.


Questions / responses, tips and Tricks

Questions and responses, tips and tricks

The window is printed too largely.

Use setting: Printout 1:1

How can I print out format fillingly a screen / window?

Use in a centered manner printer setup landscape format as soon as the settings horizontal centered vertical and no date printings.

How can I switch of mono chrome to colour?

They input you at threshold value 0.

How can I reprocess a file generated with Hardcopy?

E.g, are normal bitmap files which are process with every normal graphics program can hardcopy files.Paintbrush Paint Shop Proor.

How can I achieve a printout without date/time?

Use the menu settings --> print date.

How can I read in a GIF file?

This function is not supported by Hardcopy.

The printed out colour is right with that displayed on the screen colour is not over-one.

Not every colour can be output naturgetreu to the printer.

Possible helps it to change printer setup.

The colour displayed in Hardcopy does not match the colour displayed on the screen.

If you have selected in the menu settings GIF format, this can occur. The used GIF format is limited on 256 colours consequently, can occur it that going in a lost manner some colours.


Registrierung

Registration

Hardcopy is freeware. Only a tip is expected!

The normal functional scope of Hardcopy is available.

However, the setting possibilities are available only in registered release.

If you want to register Hardcopy, you let please a check be assigned to me or you make a checkless transfer to the subsequently listed account.

Please, specify you then receive goingly a release as purpose Hardcopy and your E-Mail address.

(DM 20,-- / $15.-- per installation are a normal tip.)

Bank details:

DepPfa-Bank, Wiesbaden

Konto-Nr.: 3913423

Bankleitzahl: 51010800

Address:

Siegfried Weckmann

Spabrücker Weg 3

D-55595 Braunweiler

Germany

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Installation

Installation:

The start of installation occurs depending on delivery by starting of

hardcopx.exe

or

setup.exe

The following directory is pre-set as a installation directory you:

c:\hardcopy

They can use this directory name or select another directory.

The corresponding applies to the program group.

The installation occurs in the language of the Windows installation, the following languages are at present supported:

- German

- English

- French

- Swedish

The help is NT >=4.0 only among Windows 95 and Windows on German and English available!

If it is found that Hardcopy is already installed, the available files are saved below the file extension. ".old"

Hardcopy functions as requested, you can delete these files.

(Is a compressed file that unpacks itself itself and then calls setup.exe hardcopx.exe. (This file can be unpacked e.g. with "WINZIP".)

Deinstallation:

Please, you start the corresponding icon among Windows 3.1 and Windows NT <4.0 in the Hardcopy program group.

Among Windows 95 and Windows NT >=4.0, they use you:

Start --> settings --> system control unit --> software -->Uninstall Hardcopy

Installation options:

Please, consider you:

The subsequent settings are only possible with registered release!

In order to make a uniform installation possible for you the following settings are already possible during installation.

These settings can before installation in the file Setup.ini or after installation in the file <Windows directory >\hardcopy.ini occur.

•	Print no date

PrintDate=no

•	Printout centered horizontal

Center=1

•	Printout centered vertical

CenterV=1

•	Determine margins

LeftMargin=<n>

RightMargin=<n>

TopMargin=<n>

BottomMargin=<n>

Specified that values must be 0 more largely!

•	Do not use printing but the function "saving under"

SaveAs=1

•	Store hardcopy file in the GIF format

Gif=1

•	Delete clipboard after printing

DeleteClipboard=yes

•	Switching off Menue's

Menu=no

•	Copyright flag

With the entries CR, Cr2 and Cr3 control you the to your requests copyright flag adapt.

•	Switching off network access

No access to network software, the printout then occurs in a occurred manner during the printout without host name/user name.

Network=no

•	Hardcopy not in the task bar

Taskbar=no

•	Printout in monochrome

mono=0	// Colour

mono=132	// Monochrome

Invert black/white

MonoChange=1	// invert

MonoChange=0	// Standard

If you want to use another key combination for the Hardcopy, this is also possible.

(This has the advantage that the clipboard is not deleted.)

That functions as follows:

A file with the name hcpdll.ini in the installation directory (e.g.: c:\hardcopy\hcpdll.ini) may set up

An example:

[key]

window=a123

screen=123

•	a window with ALT+F12 is printed out in this example

•	the screen with F12

•	that'a' stands for ALT key

•	it also can a's' used for shift key may be

•	only a number stands for 'without a supplementary key'

•	They can also specify only a line, e.g., only window=

•	if you copy this file (hcpdll.ini) onto the set-up floppy disk, this file is installed automatically into the correct directory.

The following table shows the hexadecimal values, and keyboard equivalents for the virtual-key codes.

08	BACKSPACE key

09	TAB key

0C	CLEAR key

21	PAGE UP key

22	PAGE DOWN key

23	END key

24	HOME key

25	LEFT ARROW key

26	UP ARROW key

27	RIGHT ARROW key

28	DOWN ARROW key

2D	INS key

2E	DEL key

70	F1 key

71	F2 key

72	F3 key

73	F4 key

74	F5 key

75	F6 key

76	F7 key

77	F8 key

78	F9 key

79	F10 key

7A	F11 key

7B	F12 key