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CRSnap - screen snapshot commodity,
by C.R. 'Magius' Hahn (of Westower)
Yeah, I named it after myself, what an ego trip.
CRSnap is a quick and simple screen snapshot commodity that, unlike
some OTHER screen snapshot commodities, FUNCTIONS CORRECTLY!!!
FEATURES:
Handles all standard OCS/ECS and AGA screenmodes.
Handles V39-40 interleaved bitmaps.
Saves as *compressed* IFF ILBM.
USAGE:
CLI or workbench (standard and NI icon included). CRSnap
will auto-detach if run from CLI. When running, press the
hotkey, and CRSnap saves the frontmost screen as a compressed
ILBM. The filename will be CRSnap###.ilbm, where ### is a number
from 000 through 999. (CRSnap won't overwrite previous snaps,
you see.) CRSnap always saves using the lowest numbered file
that doesn't already exist. If every possible file of the
1000 files already exist, well, let's not consider that
possibility.... It's messy...... very....
Don't worry, though, it's not likely you will ever reach this
1000-file limit - but if you do, I thoroughly hate you for
having so bloody much free HD space you don't know what to do
with it besides fill it up with useless snaps of your
1280x768 256-color workbench screen, you verminous brat!
TOOLTYPES/PARAMETERS:
The CLI interface is standard ReadArgs.
CX_PRIORITY/K/N,SNAPKEY/K,SNAPPATH/K
Or, if you don't understand template-ese:
CRSnap [CX_PRIORITY=<n>] [SNAPKEY=<key>] [SNAPPATH=<path>]
For Workbench, the tooltypes are identical. SNAPKEY is the
hotkey string, in the 'normal' format (ie. "ctrl lalt s"),
and SNAPPATH tells CRSnap what directory to put the snapped
files into. The default values for these can be found in the
icon, but here they are again:
CX_PRIORITY=0
SNAPKEY=lcommand rcommand f10
SNAPPATH=sys:t
NOTES:
- I'm not 100% certain if this will REALLY handle all AGA modes,
because I don't have an AGA machine. If you encounter any
problems, please send me a note describing the difficulty, along
with an A4000T (loaded), and I will get right on the problem :)
- The way I have handled interleaved bitmaps may be considered
a bit improper. I don't know of any correct way to do it.
Does anyone know why interleaved bitmaps do not seem to be
flagged as such?
- As with many such utilities, CRSnap only understands
intuition screens. (can't snap custom viewports, or displays
with more than one screen - sorry)
THANKS:
Jan Van Den Baard (sp?) - for DCBack.lib
Matt "Counterpoint" McLellan (of Westower) - for testing.
Eric's Trip - for being Eric's Trip, and creating such
great albums.
How to contact Westower to tell us how great we are (or that we suck):
Snail-Mail:
C.R. 'Magius' Hahn
Box 403
Montmartre, SK
S0G 3M0
Canada
or EMail Matt "Counterpoint" McLellan at:
mclellan@cs.uregina.ca
P.S. Before telling us that we suck, have a listen to Counterpoint's
most excellent MOD's - available on AmiNet, in mods/ctp