HyperSnap-DX ver. 4.20.00

HyperSnap-DX 4 is a screen capture tool for 
Windows.  Captures screens from standard desktop 
programs and hard-to-grab DirectX/Direct3D, 3Dfx 
Voodoo and Glide mode games.  HyperSnap-DX 4 even 
snags frames from many DVD players and other video 
software.  The program can auto-scroll and 
concurrently capture long web pages and other 
documents, enabling it to grab more than is 
visible on the screen.  The program integrates 
with the Windows clipboard, and has new painting 
and editing features, too.  Version 4.x contains 
many new or improved features requested by our 
users.  These include improved handling of 3dfx 32 
bit color mode screens, a completely new set of 
color and image manipulation tools, improved 
printing, tight integration with the Windows 
system tray, new painting tools added to the 
button palette, the ability to set the Windows 
wallpaper, "send by e-mail" feature within the 
program that lets you send captures across the 
Internet, and a comprehensive help system that 
provides context-sensitive "pop-up" help for 
virtually every aspect of the program.  

HyperSnap-DX ver.  4 is distributed on "try 
before you buy" principle.  If used without a 
license, it will add Hyperionics stamp to images 
that you capture or edit with it. To purchase a 
license, visit our web site at 
http://www.hyperionics.com

Changes Log:
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2001.10.16 - ver. 4.20.00
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HyperSnap-DX 4 is now certified for Microsoft
"Designed for Windows" logo!

NEW features in this release include:
- "Extended Active Window" new capture technology,
to resize windows much bigger than the screen and
capture them that way (works only on Windows XP).
- "Sharpen or Soften..." function added to Image 
menu.  
- "Capture Settings" - "Crop & Scale" tab - added 
a button to "Set to current selection rectangle" 
also to the "Scale Image" part.  
- Added "Set to current selection rectangle" 
button also to "Image/Scale" function.  
- New Rotate 90 degree (left and right) buttons 
added 
- New ability to turn on and off the images 
displayed next to each menu item.  We received 
complaints from some of our users who felt that 
the menus were 'cluttered'.  Now, by default, we 
enable only a few of the images.  To turn them on 
and off individually, select "View/Customize", 
then open any menu (it's now in special 
"customize" mode), right click on a menu item and 
select either "Text" or "Image and Text" according 
to your liking.  The settings will be remembered 
when you exit and start again the program.  

NEW fixes in this release include:
- Fixed - HyperSnap-DX v4 sometimes would not 
remember toolbar positions correctly, if you moved 
the drawing toolbar to be on top, instead of its 
default location at the left margin.  
- Fixed - Image/Crop function would leave a 
vertical line over the drawing, if selected from 
the menu (not keyboard shortcut Ctrl+R).  That 
line would disappear after finishing the crop, but 
could be disturbing during the operation.  
- Fixed - Image/Crop function should disable menus 
and all toolbars when executed, and only re-enable 
them when crop was finished or cancelled.  In ver.  
4.11 and 4.12 it did not disable menus or extra 
toolbars created by tearing off menus.  


2001.10.01 - ver. 4.12.01
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Updated to auto-scroll Netscape 6 windows.
Fixed: arrow and other keys would not work in 
capture modes to select region etc., if HS-DX 4
window was minimized before starting the capture.
Fixed: voice commands could not be toggled on if
running under Win9x/ME.


2001.08.30 - ver. 4.11.02
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Minor changes only: added "authenticode" certificate
to our setup file, slightly modified to better 
handle future upgrades and not loose all menu
customizations, small fix for switching language
versions without manually resetting the menu,
saving toolbar visibility and docking state even
if Windows is shut-down without exiting HS-DX.


2001.08.23 - ver. 4.11.01
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Added keyboard and menu customization to View/
Customize. Any menu command may now be assigned
any keyboard shortcut, menus can be re-arranged,
hidden, text on them changed. You can also tear
off any menu by grabbing a grey bar on top of it
and moving your mouse away - this will create an
instant toolbar from that menu.


2001.08.04 - ver. 4.10.02
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A few small bugs fixed:
- would not start minimized, if both "start 
minimized" and "tray icon" were selected under
"Options\Startup" menu.
- after Rotate and Shear operations, sometimes the
scroll bars would not be correct, unless window
resized.
- Quick Copy operation would not respect "Edit/
Copy Format" settings.
- Some small corrections to the help files.


2001.07.31 - ver. 4.10.01
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Many new features implemented!

New Options/Register File Types function on the 
menu - to register or unregister HS-DX as a 
default viewer for different graphics files.  

The "top" toolbar in HS-DX can now be customized, 
any function from the menu can be placed or 
removed there, use View/Customize menu to do this.  
Some of the menu items don't have button images, 
but they can still be placed on the toolbar as 
"text" buttons.  We will add more images with 
time.  

The "top" toolbar can now be un-docked and dragged 
anywhere, or docked to any side of HS-DX window.  

New keyboard interface to control mouse movement 
with 1 pixel precision in any drawing, selection 
or pasting mode.  Use arrow keys to move mouse 
cursor by 1 pixel, press Enter key to simulate 
left mouse button down (for holding in drawing, 
dragging operations), press Enter again for "mouse 
button up" (finish drawing or dragging).  This 
feature can be enabled or disabled under "Options" 
menu.  

After selecting a fragment of an image and 
starting dragging it, HyperSnap-DX uses now an OLE 
drag and drop feature of Windows.  This means that 
you can move and drop the selected fragment of the 
image into another HyperSnap-DX window, or on 
other windows that accept OLE bitmap data, for 
example on MS Word documents.  When the whole 
image is selected, drag and drop may be started by 
pressing Shift key plus left mouse button (for 
"move" operation) or Ctrl key plus left mouse 
button (for "copy" operation).  

In "Region Capture" mode (first stage, when the 
very first corner is selected), HS-DX now also 
displays the RGB color code of the pixel selected 
by mouse cursor.  This can be toggled between 
decimal and hex display, or no display at all, by 
pressing the C key on the keyboard.  

Use mouse wheel for vertical scrolling of an image 
in HS-DX window, or hold Ctrl key on the keyboard, 
plus use mouse wheel for zoom in/out.  

Voice command interface (VCI) for the most 
commonly accessed capture functions.  Please read 
more about the components needed for VCI here.  

Fixed Region, Multi-Region, Window capture - will 
now also capture semi-transparent or irregular 
shape windows, like "Office Assistant" in MS 
Office.  Previously you could only capture them 
with full screen capture method, and then crop.  

The Setup program now offers a choice on the first 
screen to install either for the current user 
only, or for All Users (under NT, Win2000 or 
WinXP).  


2001.06.22 - ver. 4.03.01
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Fixed "Capture Settings/View & Edit" - "Paste each
new capture onto the current image" function would
crash if used.

2001.06.19 - ver. 4.03.00
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Implemented a "Copy Format" function under Edit
menu, to select the format of the bitmap that 
should be placed in Windows clipboard upon "Copy"
operation, and optionally minimize HS-DX window
upon copy.

Improved "Capture Cursor" option - now if capture
is started with a hot key, the cursor image is
"burned" into the desktop and captured in one 
step, instead of using 2 step process (involving
"repeat last capture" hot key) as before.

Fixed auto-scroll to work with certain MS Access
forms.

2001.05.23 - ver. 4.02.02
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Another memory leak fixed, this time in "special
capture" code (capture games, video).
Fixed HS-DX 4 taking a lot of processor time and
heating the CPU in "region" and "window" selection
for capture.

2001.05.16 - ver. 4.02.01
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Fixed a memory leak in image saving code. 
License keys have now more flexible format, allowing
for white space in the middle when entering them.

2001.04.17 - ver. 4.02.00
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New game capture code to snap games that use
DirectInput technology in "exclusive mode" - these
games could not be captured previously.
Modify the capture code to always capture 24 bits
per pixel bitmap, if the screen was in 16 bpp 
"high color" mode. Due to some limitations in
Windows bitmap format, this provides both better
color fidelity, and better compatibility with older
programs that import graphics.
Fixed - HS-DX 4 would sometimes appear to hang
if you were trying to capture a window with 
auto-scroll, and auto-scrolling of this window
was not possible.
Fixed - "invert black and white" for 256 color
bitmaps did not work correctly, for example -
copy and paste it to MS-Word, the image was still
without the inversion.
Plugged a small GDI resource leak in Region and
Multi-Region captures modes.

2001.03.15 - ver. 4.01.11
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Two bugs found and fixed:
- Copy to clipboard, if the image was using 
palettes, would result in incorrect color when
pasted to other applications, that prefer to 
paste DIB format.
- Saving to TIFF files with PACKBIT compression
would result in incorrect files.

2001.03.08 - ver. 4.01.10
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Fixed - "best fit" option for printing would not
work, if printing without opening Page Setup.
Fixed - image resolution value would be ignored
in copy operations.
Fixed - automatic paste to MS Word 2000 would not
work, at least under Windows 2000.
Modified the way file names are incremented (numbers
added to them) in Quick Save. Previously the first
group of digits in the file name would be 
incremented, so you would get names like 01-01,
02-01, 03-01 etc. Now the names will be 01-01,
01-02, 01-03 etc. There will be no change if only
one group of digits is in the file name, or no
digits at all.
Fixed the issue of HyperSnap-DX taking away window
focus when started hidden or with -snap command
line option (previously -snap:awin would not work
correctly).
Added -exit command to make HyperSnap exit after
some operations requested from the command line.
Fixed "Quick Save" operation to also work for
-snap command line options, including file name
increments.

2001.01.16 - ver. 4.01.09
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Fixes to timed capture, not to display errors when
"continue on error" option is selected.
Fixed not to display unnecessary "could not 
register hot keys" message upon startup in some 
circumstances.
Fixed -dumpopts command line option, previously
would not save Page Setup and printer options.

2001.01.05 - ver. 4.01.08
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Some more small fixes to timed "quick save" when
used with "special capture" function (games and
DVD) - previously it would behave strange in this
scenario, trying to snap both the game/DVD image,
and Windows desktop at the same time. Fixed.

2001.01.04 - ver. 4.01.07
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Fixed timed auto-capture - previously would not
execute "Quick Crop and Scale" operations except
for the very first capture.

2000.12.21 - ver. 4.01.06
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Corrected bug in licensing code, introduced in v.
4.01.05 - would crash HyperSnap-DX program when
trying to enter a new license. I'm very sorry
about it! - Greg

2000.12.20 - ver. 4.01.05
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HyperSnap-DX will now remember the size of a "new"
image, which you set with "Resize" button on the
drawing toolbar.
Added saving and restoring of pen width and color,
and eraser width upon exit/restart of the program.
Added -ra command line parameter, to restore 
"advanced" options when the program is restarted.
These "advanced" options currently include "Capture
Settings" - "Crop & Scale" enable mode, and "View
& Edit" selection. Normally restoring these options
in other than their default state could confuse
beginner users of HyperSnap-DX, so we use this
command line argument to prevent this confusion.

2000.12.11 - ver. 4.01.04
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Fixed - saving 8 bpp images (e.g. GIF) would again
give blue tint to grey color.
Fixed - right mouse click during capture would not
work on Windows NT 4.
Fixed - the delay time for capture was not saved
when HS-DX 4 was exited and restarted.

2000.12.04 - ver. 4.01.03
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Fixed - "Pan Last Region" would increase the size
by one pixel each time it was invoked.
Fixed - scale image, then edit/copy - uses incorrect
selection rectangle (should copy entire image, copied
the size of previous selection).
Fixed auto-scroll in 32 bit color mode, which would
not work on some machines.
Fixed - now will not restore HS-DX window after a 
cancelled capture.
Fixed a crash on some old ATI graphics card in
Region capture or Crop, when zoom area was displayed.
Fixed - if using quick save with quick print, and
printing the file name with %file% or %path% macro,
the previous file name would be printed.
Fixed wrong text (FileBX license) on the "License"
dialog box.

2000.11.21 - ver. 4.01.02
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More small corrections:
The "Change" button under "Quick Save" tab
of "Capture Settings" would sometimes become
disabled
Command lines parameter correction:
	-save:gif snap.bmp
would save a GIF file named "snap.bmp", now it
will correctly change extension to make 
"snap.gif" 
The -open:filename command line parameter may be
now also spelled:
	-open filename
which seems to be more logical. 

2000.11.18 - ver. 4.01.01
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Several small corrections - fixed a difficulty
in license entry (and an occasional crash there).
Fixed a crash when trying to change "stop timed
capture" hot key.
Fixed Multi-Region capture, would not align 
correctly the regions, if one of them extended
beyond the desktop.

2000.11.15 - ver. 4.01.00
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The first full release of ver. 4, after a long
period of thorough beta tests.

1997.04.16 - ver. 3.00 released
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The first of ver. 3.xx release went out that
day. A long list of changes in subsequent 
versions 3.xx deleted from here.

1995.04.13 - ver. 2.20 released
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SnapShot/32 ver. 2, later renamed to HyperSnap, 
released that day. A long list of changes in 
subsequent versions 2.xx deleted from here.

