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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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- Or, if you don't understand template-ese:
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- CRSnap [CX_PRIORITY=<n>] [SNAPKEY=<key>] [SNAPPATH=<path>]
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- 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:
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- CX_PRIORITY=0
- SNAPKEY=lcommand rcommand f10
- SNAPPATH=sys:t
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- 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:
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- Jan Van Den Baard (sp?) - for DCBack.lib
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- Matt "Counterpoint" McLellan (of Westower) - for testing.
-
- Eric's Trip - for being Eric's Trip, and creating such
- great albums.
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- How to contact Westower to tell us how great we are (or that we suck):
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- Snail-Mail:
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- C.R. 'Magius' Hahn
- Box 403
- Montmartre, SK
- S0G 3M0
- Canada
-
- or EMail Matt "Counterpoint" McLellan at:
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- 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
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