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Quick Start
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Grabmode
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Zoom
Up/Down
doubleclick the left/right mousebutton or use the hotkeys
'u','d' or the Options menu.
Capture
Screen
Click Options|CaptureScreen| to_Clipboard or to_File to
capture a dedicated portion of the screen. A running frame
appears, which you might adjust to the screen area to be
captured. Click the yellow-circled button beneath the
Options-button to capture the area. (If the captured area is
saved to a JPEG-File, the compression value from the
Settings-Dialog
is used.) To cancel capturing mode, press the selected menu
items again.
Distances
Activate the Distances mode from the Options menu, then draw
a line between the points of interest. The display shows the
length of the line in pixels. To change the units, open the
Settings
Dialog and enter the
conversion factor in the 'Multiply Pixellength by :'
Edit-field.
Grab
grab continously the display of an underlying window. The
Grab area itself is a hole to the underlying window - this
might be a little confusing in the beginning. Adjust the
Zoom-Window to the screen area you want to grab. Press the
yellow-circled button beneath the Options-button to
Start/Stop grabbing. Edit the Grab parameters (GrabInterval,
Folder to save Images in, ...) in the Settings
Dialog . The Display
shows the number of captured frames and - after the comma -
the actual Grab-Interval Time needed in msec .
The Images will be saved in
the Format yXXXXX, y standing for the letters taken from the
'Save Images to:' Edit field and XXXXX standing for the
current frame number in hex.
Zoom doesn't support DirectX
yet. Thus the grabbing will not work with applications using
DirectX!
Zoom
at Screen Cursor
magnifies the screen portion around the current
mouselocation.
Settings,
parameter editing for:
Distances:
Change the units of the Distance display by entering the
conversion factor in the 'Multiply Pixellength by :'
Edit-field. The Calculator button starts Window's
Calc.exe.
Grab:
Edit the Grab Interval time, the Folder, Filenames and
File-Extensions grabbed Images are saved to. The Jpeg
compression factor will be used with both, capturing and
grabbing to Jpeg-Files.
General:
there are 2 techniques available for zooming (for those
interested in: StretchBlt with SRCCOPY or MERGECOPY). The
first one is faster, but - depending on the graphics
hardware - not always delivers the desired result.
Experiment which one is better.
Switch 'Stay On Top' on/off to change the StayOnTop
property.
Hot Keys
- o : opens the Options
Menu
- u : ZoomUp
- d : ZoomDown
- a : switch Distances
mode on/off
- c : switch 'Zoom at
Screen Cursor' mode on/off
- p : in Distances mode,
remove the last point.
- g : in Grab/Capture
mode, start or stop.
Keyboard Cursor Keys:
the Cursor Keys may be used to move the Frame in Capture
mode or the Zoom-Window itself in Grab mode. Press Shift and
one of the Cursor Keys to adjust the Size of the control.
Additionally pressing Alt moves or sizes the control by 10
pixels per keyclick.
Register
To register, open the About Dialog to find the serial of the
program, which is a combination of program and hardware
serials. With this serial, visit http://www.PeakStars.com
to obtain the Registration Key. (Note: the Registration Key
is hardware dependent and valid only for the machine Zoom is
currently running on).
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