1. HyperSnap-DX ver. 4.52.01
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. 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:
============
2002.08.20 - ver. 4.52.01
- Text tool box has an extra color button, to select
font colors that are not present in the standard
Windows font dialog.
- "Capture Settings/Copy & Print" has another option
to make HyperSnap prompt for printer when automatically
printing each capture, instead of using always the
default printer .
2002.06.20 - ver. 4.51.01
- When a smaller area of the bitmap is now selected, a
separate transparency color can be set for it. This makes
easier moving irregular fragments of the image by
making the background color behind them transparent.
- Transparency information is now preserved when copying
and pasting images between HyperSnap-DX windows, or
using drag and drop to move fragments of images between
them
- Some PNG files would not read correctly, fixed.
- Automatic print of images, if set, will be now also
executed on timed auto-captures.
- Fixed a problem with auto-numbering files with "Quick
Save" enabled and prompting for the file name. Cancelling
such prompted save would decrease the auto-number counter,
and with the next save a file already existing could
be overwritten.
2002.06.03 - ver. 4.50.03
Minor bug fixed in Image/Crop function - pressing F1
key would not show correctly the zoom area for precise
cropping.
2002.05.13 - ver. 4.50.02

2. Bug fix: on some multi-monitor setups the "region
capture" help and zoom area would not display
correctly, e.g. zoom area would be hidden below the
lower edge of a secondary monitor
2002.05.01 - ver. 4.50.01
New features:
- New function Color/Substitute Colors, allows you to
define custom color lists to be replaced on an image,
like "replace all green pixels with red" etc.
- New option for specifying where and how to add the
number file names for automatic saving (Quick Save) with
incrementing file name. You may now insert a C language
like formatting field into the file name, e.g. %d, %o, %x,
%X, %05d etc. to precisely tell where the number should
go, if it should be decimal, octal or hexadecimal, how
wide the number field should be and so on. Of course,
the old instructions for inserting this number still
work, this is for advanced users only.
- New command line option: -invertbw inverts black and
white colors on the initial image in HyperSnap-DX
window, no matter if it's opened from a file specified
on a command line, or snapped with -snap option.
Fixes:
- Fixed a bug that caused slight shifting of the printed
image near the bottom of the print-out.
2002.04.05 - ver. 4.40.01
New features:
- Non-rectangular window capture (e.g. rounded corners
of WinXP windows, or arbitrary shape windows, like
Media Player in "skin mode").
- PNG files now support transparency and interlace
attribute.
- Saving ICO files now correctly sets transparency
mask according to transparency color selected.
- Color reduction from true colors to palette, now
provides less "reddish" colors.
- GIF files can now be saved in any of 1, 2, 3, ... 8
bits per pixel, resulting often in smaller file sizes.
2002.03.04 - ver. 4.31.01
-------------------------
Changes on "Capture" tab of "Capture Settings":
- New option "Do automatic paste, print or save ONLY if
a new capture is different from the previous one". This
allows you e.g. to set a frequent timed auto-capture of
a screen that changes rarely. HyperSnap-DX will only
save the captures if it detects a difference.
- New option "Hide HyperSnap-DX window before capture",
by default turned on. Turn it off if you want to capture
HyperSnap-DX window itself.
- The "background color" button removed, as it was a
duplicate of the same button on the drawing toolbar.
Fixes include:
- Fixed a long outstanding bug with undo/redo operations
after trying to enter entering empty text.
2002.02.13 - ver. 4.30.01
-------------------------
New features:
- Button capture function under "Capture" menu. Useful
particularly for professional technical writers who

3. need to snap and document dozens of buttons in software
documentation process.
- More options on "View & Edit" tab of "Capture Settings",
to let you automatically paste new captured images on
current image, while preserving relative capture position
on the screen, or automatic tiling of images.
- New File/Acquire Multiple Images function added to
get multiple images in one session from a scanner,
digital camera or other TWAIN device
- File/Acquire and Acquire Multiple Images now processes
images in the same way as screen capture, allowing you to
automatically save, print, copy and paste (with optional
tiling) etc. of scanned images.
- New function under "Options" menu - "Image Position and
Background" - you may now select the color and optional
hatch of HyperSnap-DX window background, and choose if
the image should be positioned in top left corner (as in
older versions) or centered within the window.
- New "Office XP" style toggle option added to "Options"
menu. Allows you to switch between Office XP like style
of menus and toolbars, and the older classic style, to
your liking.
- Zoom box in the toolbar has now more % choices.
Fixes:
- Fixed a problem on multiple monitor setups, where some
tool popup windows (e.g. color palette) would come up on
primary monitor, even if HS-DX window was on another
monitor.
- Fixed a problem on Windows XP, where HS-DX window
would sometimes not come up to front after a capture -
or if it came to front, other windows were locked and
would not come to front until you clicked e.g. Start
menu.
- Fix for "Quick Save" problem - in previous versions, if
"quick save" saved your image, then you edited that image
and tried to use regular save, it might propose another
directory, and possibly another file format.
2001.12.18 - ver. 4.22.01
-------------------------
Small correction in DVD/video overlay capture code,
may affect only very few users.
2001.12.14 - ver. 4.22.00
-------------------------
HyperSnap-DX has now OfficeXP style menus, white
instead of gray, and showing initially only the most
important or recently used menu items, expanding upon
a click on a double v mark at the bottom. This may be
turned off under "View/Customize" menu on "Options"
tab.
Improved DVD/video overlay capture, now supports also
NV12, NV21 (Nvidia cards) and IMC1-4 (Intel) pixel
formats.
Fix for game capture - previously would sometimes
snap double pictures from some games, when "special
capture" hot key was pressed.
Fixed Edit/Cut function not working in ver. 4.21, and
the + key not toggling cursor visibility in Crop or
Region Capture functions.

4. 2001.12.02 - ver. 4.21.00
-------------------------
Drawing, area selection and cropping operations will
now scroll the image, if it's too big to fit into
HS-DX window, and you go out with the mouse cursor
with mouse button pressed.
2001.10.16 - ver. 4.20.00
-------------------------
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
-------------------------
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.

5. 2001.08.30 - ver. 4.11.02
-------------------------
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
-------------------------
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
-------------------------
A few small bugs fixed:
- would not start minimized, if both "start
minimized" and "tray icon" were selected under
"OptionsStartup" 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
-------------------------
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"

6. 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
-------------------------
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
-------------------------
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.

7. 2001.05.23 - ver. 4.02.02
-------------------------
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
-------------------------
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
-------------------------
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
-------------------------
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
-------------------------
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

8. 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
-------------------------
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
-------------------------
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
-------------------------
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
-------------------------
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
-------------------------
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
-------------------------
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.

9. 2000.12.04 - ver. 4.01.03
-------------------------
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
-------------------------
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
-------------------------
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
-------------------------
The first full release of ver. 4, after a long
period of thorough beta tests.
1997.04.16 - ver. 3.00 released
-------------------------------
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
-------------------------------
SnapShot/32 ver. 2, later renamed to HyperSnap,
released that day. A long list of changes in
subsequent versions 2.xx deleted from here.