MWSnap v.3.0.0.71 Beta RC1 Copyright (c) 2000, 2002 Mirek Wójtowicz, Lublin, Poland All rights reserved. MWSnap is free for both commercial and non-commercial use. You are free to put this program on a CD-ROM, but if you do so please send me a notification (and a copy of the CD, if possible.) And of course spread this program complete with all files. Description =========== MWSnap is a small yet powerful Windows program for snapping (capturing) images from selected parts of the screen. Current version is capable of capturing the whole desktop, a highlighted window, an active menu, or a fixed or free rectangular part of the screen. MWSnap handles 5 most popular graphics formats and contains important graphical tools: a zooming box, a ruler, a color picker and a windows spy. MWSnap runs under any 32-bit Windows. It does not require installation and does not need any special dlls, drivers or system files which can mess up your system. MWSnap selected features ======================== - 5 snapping modes. - Support for BMP, JPG, PNG, TIFF and GIF formats, with selected color depth and quality settings. - System-wide hotkeys. - Clipboard copy and paste. - Auto-saving, auto-printing. - Various picture transformations. - Undo and redo. - Auto-start with Windows. - Minimizing to system tray. - An auto-extending list of fixed sizes, perfect for snapping images for icons and glyphs. - A zoom tool for magnifying selected parts of the screen. - A ruler tool for measuring screen objects lengths. - A color picker (within the zoom tool). - Fast picture viewer. - A window info tool. - Configurable user interface. - Multilingual versions. - And more... Installation ============ MWSnap does not need any special installation. Just create a folder for the program and unzip the package into it. The program is ready for use! To update your existing version just install the program into the same folder. What's new ========== 3.00.0.71 Beta RC1, 28 Jun 2002 - A new color picker tool. - More sound effects: confirmations, clipboard actions - Preview panel can be hatched to improve the image visibility. - A new configuration option - restore MWSnap after snapping. - A new configuration option - always show program icon in tray. - All dialog boxes save and restore their last screen positions. - Updated program documentation. - An error with the preview window appearing on the captured images removed. - Repaired errors with minimizing and restoring. - Repaired bug with repeating the last capture. - Minor bugs removed. - The option "Start minimized" has been temporarily removed! 3.00.0.65 Beta, 18 Jun 2002 - An option for automatic checking if a new version of the program is available. - A new version of the ruler tool, featuring higher accuracy, dynamic readings, and a bi-directional scale. - Accept files dropped on the program window. - Many minor bugs and translation problems removed. - Adding mouse cursor pointers to snapped images. - Adding configurable frames to snapped images. - Multilevel configurable undo and redo. - Improved capturing engine. - Color picker - F4 key opens a dialog box with color details and several popular color notations (RGB, HTML, Delphi, and System). - A new Window info tool, showing dynamically details of a window below the cursor. - Ruler, Zoom and Window info tools are available in the local menu of the program's icon in the system tray. - Ruler, Zoom and Window info tools can be invoked using system-wide hotkeys. - Repaired bug in saving transparent GIFs. - The ruler tool no longer causes MWSnap window to minimize. - Dialog windows restore their last positions on the screen. - Reorganized menus and toolbars. - Minor bugs removed. 2.60.0.56 Beta, 23 May 2002 - Auto-printing (shortcut: ). - Opening picture files, with support for gif, png, jpg, bmp, ico, emf and wmf formats. - Picture Viewer panel, with options for opening, starting, renaming and deleting pictures. - Pasting images from the clipboard. - New Zoom in/out tools. - Zoom step menu. - Numeric pad '+' and '-' keys perform zooming in/out. - Ruler tool - right-clicking the ruler pops up a local menu. - Auto-saving shortcut remapped to . - Removed the obsolete 'stretch preview' option. - Repaired bug with repeating the last capture. - Other minor bugs removed. 2.50.0.50 Beta, 04.04.2002 - Support for PNG images format. - Improved color reduction algorithms in saved .bmp and .gif images. - Repaired bug that could cause the marking rectangle to go into the snapped image. - Support for multiple versions of the same language. - Many minor improvements. 2.20.0.48 Beta, 27 Mar 2002 - Possibility to translate the user interface to any number of languages. - Window snapping - possibility to capture child windows. - Configurable sounds. - Configurable displaying of the snap preview window. - Printing - possibility to specify the count of copies. - Windows XP Themes Manager compatibility. - Enhanced visibility of the selection window. - Improved error handling. - Repaired bug causing settings not to be saved. - Repaired bug with rotating snapped images. - Corrected snapping of maximized windows. v.2.00.0.40, 27 Nov 2001 - a bug removed causing MWSnap in some cases to crash at startup. v.2.00.0.39, 18 Nov 2001 - Auto-saving after making a snap. - Printing with optional scaling. - Basic transformations: flipping and rotating. - Show/hide preview window (F6 while making a capture). - Preview box, zoom tool - an additional marker showing an exact cursor location. - Minimize to system tray. - Auto start with Windows. - Start in minimized mode. - Program documentation. - Ruler with scale markings on both sides. - Application title bar shows the name of the last saved image. - Other minor improvements. v. 1.10, 01 Oct 2001 - First public version. v. 1.00, 12 Feb 2000 - Initial version, for internal use only. Standard Disclaimer =================== THIS SOFTWARE AND THE ACCOMPANYING FILES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES AS TO PERFORMANCE OF MERCHANTABILITY OR ANY OTHER WARRANTIES WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. The user must assume the entire risk of using the program. Contacting the author ===================== e-mail: info@mirekw.com mirwoj@life.pl WWW: http://www.mirekw.com http://www.mirwoj.opus.chelm.pl/ I appreciate and welcome any comments, enhancement requests, improvement suggestions and bug reports that you may have.