CONTENTS

  Introduction

  File Menu Item:  Save as  >>  BMP

   File Menu Item:  Save as  >>  GIF

   File Menu Item:  Save as  >>  PCX

   File Menu Item:  Save as  >>  TXT

   File Menu Item:  Open BMP

   Main Menu Item:  Display

   Main Menu Item:  Options

   Cropping the Clipboard Image

    Glossary


Introduction

SuperClip  is a clipboard viewer that can save a displayed graphic

image to a BMP, GIF, or PCX  file, or text to an ASCII file.

In Windows, the entire screen can be captured to the clipboard at any time

by pressing the PrtSc key, or just the currently active window by pressing

Alt-PrtSc.  Pressing PrtSc will also capture text to the clipboard from DOS

applications running full-screen in character mode.

The entire clipboard image can be saved or it can be cropped by using the

mouse to frame a rectangle before saving to disk.  Text can also be converted

to a bitmap and cropped.

While running minimized as an icon, SuperClip will pop up and display the

clipboard whenever a capture occurs.


Save as BMP
File Menu Item:  Save as  >>  BMP

Select this item from the File menu to save the contents of the clipboard

to an uncompressed Windows Bitmap File having the filename extension

BMP.   Monochrome, 16-color, 256-color, and  24-bit TrueColor modes

are supported.

If text is the currently-displayed clipboard format, it will be converted to

a graphic image and saved as a monochrome BMP file.


Save as GIF
File Menu Item:  Save as  >>  GIF

Select this item from the File menu to save the contents of the clipboard

to a CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format file having the filename

extension GIF.  This format utilizes LZW compression, and supports

Monochrome, 16-color and 256-color modes.   GIF does not support 24-bit

TrueColor  modes.

If text is the currently-displayed clipboard format, it will be converted to

a graphic image and saved as a monochrome GIF file.


Save as PCX
File Menu Item:  Save as  >>  PCX

Select this item from the File menu to save the contents of the clipboard

to a PC Paintbrush file having the filename extension PCX.  Monochrome,

16-color, 256-color, and 24-bit TrueColor modes are supported.

If text is the currently-displayed clipboard format, it will be converted to

a graphic image and saved as a monochrome PCX file.


Save as TXT
File Menu Item:  Save as TXT

Select this item from the File menu to save clipboard text to an ASCII

TXT file.  Select OEM for the DOS-compatible, IBM extended-ASCII

character set, or ANSI for the Windows-compatible character set.

If you select a file that already exists, clipboard text will be appended

to that file.


Cropping the Clipboard Image

To mark a rectangular area for cropping, move the cursor to one of the

top corners of the desired rectangle, depress the left mouse button, move

the cursor to the diagonally opposite corner and release.  Repeat this

process to erase the rectangle and draw a new one.

To save the cropped image, select the desired format from the File menu.

To erase the rectangle, press Esc or click and release the left mouse button.

Only bitmapped images can be cropped.  To crop text, it must first be converted

to a monochrome bitmap by selecting "Save as BMP" from the File menu,

then "Open BMP" to place the newly-created bitmap on the clipboard.  In most

cases, it would be more practical to save text to an ASCII file, then open that

file in a word processor and edit the text before pasting it into an application.


Options
Options  >>  Three options are available.

Option:  Clear clipboard

  Select this menu item to empty the clipboard.  Both text and graphics

  will be discarded.

Option:  Popup mode

  This is the default mode of SuperClip.  When hidden by another window or

  minimized to an icon, SuperClip will pop up onto the screen whenever text

  or graphics is captured to the clipboard.  Select this menu item to turn popup

  mode off or back on again.

  To return to the application that was interrupted when SuperClip popped up,

  click on that application's window or minimize SuperClip back to an icon.

Option:  Enter coordinates

  Select this menu item to draw a rectangle by entering its coordinates from

  the keyboard, instead of using the mouse.  The values that appear in the

  dialog box are those of the current rectangle, if one has been drawn with

  the mouse.  If no rectangle has been drawn, the values default to a rectangle

  that contains the entire client area of the SuperClip window.  The origin of

  the rectangle coordinates is the upper-left corner of the clipboard image.

  To erase the rectangle, press Esc or click and release the left mouse button.


Open BMP
File Menu Item:  Open BMP

Select this item from the File menu to open a BMP file and place the image

it contains on the clipboard.  If a graphic image already exists on the clipboard,

the entire contents of the clipboard will first be discarded.


Main Menu Item:  Display

Select this menu item to choose which clipboard format to display.

There are three possible formats.

Bitmap

This is the format to display a graphic image,

OEM

This is the format to display text in the DOS-compatible, IBM extended-

ASCII character set.

ANSI

This is the format to display text in the Windows-compatible character set.


GLOSSARY

  ANSI text

    The set of text characters used by Windows.  Most of the alphanumeric characters

      and standard punctuation symbols in this set (ASCII codes 32 through 127) are

      equivalent to those in the OEM character set used by DOS.  However, the extended

      portion of the ANSI character set (ASCII codes 0 through 31 and 128 through 255) are

      mapped to different characters and symbols than those of the OEM character set.

      ANSI stands for American National Standards Institue.

  ASCII text

    A text file format in which each character or symbol is represented by a one-byte

      numeric code in the range 0 through 255.  ASCII stands for American Standard Code

      for Information Interchange.

  bitmap

    An array of bytes that encodes a graphic image.  Each pixel is represented by 1 bit

      for monochrome, 4 bits for 16 color, 8 bits for 256 color, and 3 bytes (24 bits) for TrueColor

      graphics.

  character mode

    The non-graphical screen mode used by many DOS applications to display text.

      Each character is represented by only one byte in memory, and the displayed font

      is the same hardware font seen in DOS directory listings.

  clipboard

    An area of memory allocated by Windows for the temporary storage of data.

     Applications can cut to or paste from the clipboard.  The entire screen can be

     copied to the clipboard at any time by pressing the PrtSc key (Shift-PrtSc on 84-

     key keyboards), or just the currently active window by pressing Alt-PrtSc.

  LZW compression

     A file-compression algorithm that encodes repetitious byte sequences as tokens

     stored in lookup tables to substantially reduce file size.  LZW stands for Lempel,

     Ziv, & Welch.

  monochrome bitmap

    A bitmap that has only two colors, usually black and white.  Each pixel is represented

      in the bitmap by one bit, so that one byte can encode eight pixels.

      SuperClip will display and save monochrome bitmaps if the Windows "VGA with

      Monochrome display" screen driver is running.  This driver can also display

      Windows in monochrome on a color monitor.

  OEM text

    The IBM extended-ASCII character set used by DOS.  Most of the alphanumeric

      characters and standard punctuation symbols in this set (ASCII codes 32 through

      127) are equivalent to those in the ANSI character set used by Windows.  However,

      the extended portion of the OEM character set (ASCII codes 0 through 31 and 128

      through 255) are mapped to different characters and symbols than those of the

      ANSI character set.  OEM stands for Original Equipment Manufacturer.

  TrueColor

    A bitmap format that maps each pixel on the screen to three bytes in memory,

     one for each of the primary colors red, green, and blue.  The number of possible

     colors that can be represented for each pixel is therefore 256 to the 3rd power,

     or 16,777,200 different colors.  A Super-VGA monitor can display TrueColor graphics

     only if the proper Windows screen driver is running and the video adapter card

     supports that display mode.