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- PCPAINT-Compatible Picture and Clipping Capture Utility
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- Written by John Bridges for Microtex Indutstries
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- Another USEware product from:
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- Microtex Industries, Inc.
- 2091 Business Center Drive
- Irvine, Ca. 92715
- (714) 476-0777
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- (714) 545-8100 - PCPaint Picture Swap Line
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- Current release number: 1.00 Current release date:05/86
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- WHAT IS CAP?
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- CAP is a utility to aid GRASP users in capturing clippings and
- pictures from programs other than PCPAINT PLUS(tm). With CAP, a
- user can capture images from virtually any other program and
- quickly move images into presentations running under GRASP. The
- pictures and clippings created by CAP are completely PCPAINT
- PLUS(tm), GRASP(tm) and ARTOOLS(tm) compatible. CAP is memory
- resident and occupies approximately 26K of memory.
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- HOW TO RUN CAP
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- To run CAP, just be sure that CAP.COM is either on the current
- drive and directory, or is accessible by your PATH statement. If
- this isn't clear, the put the GRASP distribution disk into drive A,
- close the door, and type the following:
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- A: {enter}
- CAP {enter}
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- Resident Capture Utility v1.0
- Written by John Bridges
- Microtex Industries, Inc. 1986
- Press ALT- {right hand} SHIFT to capture screen
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- CAP is now loaded and ready for use.
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- WARNING: Please do NOT run CAP twice. Sometimes, depending on your
- machine, it will cause the system to hang. Keep track of whether
- you have loaded CAP or not and only load it once. If you need to
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- BRINGING UP CAP
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- To activate CAP, hold down the ALT key and press the shift key that
- is on the right side of the keyboard (opposite from ALT). Release
- both keys and you should see a flashing crosshairs in the center of
- the screen. At this point, you would do whatever you want to do
- inside CAP (see USING CAP for more details), then quit CAP by
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- CAP - Resident Capture Utility for GRASP(tm)
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- REMOVING CAP
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- If CAP is the LAST memory resident utility you loaded, and
- you want to free up the memory it occupies, just press CTRL-Q while
- you have the CAP crosshairs on the screen. In other words,
- where you would normally press ESC to quit CAP, press CTRL-Q to
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- USING CAP
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- CAP - Resident Capture Utility for GRASP(tm)
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- Saving Pictures
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- The simplest way to save a picture is to use the following
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- Assuming you have already run CAP and are now in your application
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- 1) Set the screen set up the way you want with your application
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- 2) Bring up CAP by pressing ALT-{right}SHIFT. You will see the CAP
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- 3) Press ENTER. You will see the top lines of the screen disappear
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- PIC name:
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- Enter up to 8 characters for your picture name and press enter. If
- you want to use an extension other than .PIC, you must specify it
- here. The drive will spin and your picture will be saved.
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- 4) You should now see your screen with the crosshairs again. Press
- ESC to go back to running your application.
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- You picture is now save and you can go on using your application
- program. If you need to capture another screen, just repeat this
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- Saving Clippings
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- Saving a clipping is much like saving a picture, except that you
- must first tell CAP which portion of the screen you want to be your
- clipping. This is done using the arrow keys to move the crosshairs
- and the SPACEBAR to tell CAP to start a new clipping. Here is the
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- Assuming you have already run CAP and are now in your application
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- 1) Set the screen set up the way you want with your application
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- 2) Bring up CAP by pressing ALT-{right}SHIFT. You will see the CAP
- crosshairs in the middle of the screen.
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- 3) Move the crosshairs using the arrow keys. You will see a
- rectangle being created. This is the boundary of your clipping.
- When the crosshairs gets to one of the corners of what you want to
- be your clipping, press SPACEBAR. This tells CAP to start a
- clipping definition from here.
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- 4) Move the crosshairs to the opposite corner of the region you
- want to be your clipping.
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- 5) Press ENTER. You will see the top lines of the screen disappear
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- CLP name:
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- Enter up to 8 characters for your clipping name and press enter. If
- you want to use an extension other than .CLP, you must specify it
- here. The drive will spin and your clipping will be saved.
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- IMPORTANT NOTE: The way that CAP decides whether you want to save a
- picture or a clipping is that if there is a rectangular area
- defined, CAP will save a clipping. If not, it will save the whole
- screen. If you start to define a clipping with the arrow keys, then
- change your mind and want a picture, just press SPACEBAR to clear
- current clipping definition and the press ENTER to save the whole
- screen as a picture.
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- ALSO note that when CAP saves a clipping, it saves the rows and
- columns of points UNDER the rectangle as part of the clipping. This
- is consistent with the way the 'edit-box' or 'marquee' works in
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- Special Features
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- CTRL-B ... BSAVE mode - After you bring up CAP and are looking at
- the crosshairs, pressing CTRL-B will toggle BSAVE on and off. You
- cannot BSAVE multiple bit-plane screens like EGA 16 color mode.
- BSAVE is really only useful for mode A, or CGA 4 color mode screens
- that you may want to load into a BASIC program. Pressing CTRL-B
- again will return to packed page format.
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- CTRL-V ... Forced Video Mode - After you bring up CAP and are
- looking at the crosshairs, pressing CTRL-V will enable forced video
- mode. You will be prompted to enter a video mode letter and then
- CAP will try to save the current screen in the format of the
- requested video mode. Video modes are the same as for PCPAINT
- PLUS(tm) and GRASP(tm). For example, if you are in EGA 16 color hi-
- resolution mode, but the program you are running didn't set it up
- properly according to BIOS, just force video mode G and CAP will
- save out a 16 color hi-resolution screen.
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- Valid Video Modes
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- 0 - 40 column color text
- 1 - 80 column color text
- 2 - 80 column monochrome text
- A - 320x200 4 color CGA
- B - 320x200 16 color PCjr / STB / TANDY 1000
- C - 640x200 2 color CGA
- D - 640x200 16 color CGA
- E - 640x350 2 color EGA
- F - 640x350 4 color EGA
- G - 640x350 16 color EGA
- H - 720x348 2 color Hercules/AST Preview
- I - 320x200 16 color Plantronics/AST CGPLUS
- J - 320x200 16 color EGA
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- ; ... Seek a clipping - During the clipping definition process,
- if the rectangle you are stretching completely surrounds the object
- you want to grab, and lies entirely in a region of a single color,
- pressing the ; key will cause all 4 edges of the rectangle to seek
- inward until an edge is found. This is useful for isolating objects
- when you don't want a lot of extra 'white space' surrounding your
- object. Try a few tests to get the feel of it.
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- . ... Change active corner - During the clipping definition
- process, you are dragging one of the corners of the rectangle. This
- corner is called the 'active corner'. To change the active corner,
- press the . key. You will notice that the corsshairs moves around
- in a clockwise direction to the adjacent corner. This is useful for
- altering regions without having to start a new one.
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- 1-0 ... Change crosshairs step - by pressing one of the number keys
- at the top of the keyboard while the crosshairs is up, you can
- change the number of points the crosshairs moves each time you
- press an arrow key. Pressing 1 means move the crosshairs one point
- for each arrow key press. 0 means move the crosshairs 10 points for
- each arrow key press. This is useful for moving more quickly or
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