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From: micke@slaka.sirius.se (Mikael Karlsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New Snap available soon
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Date: 29 Jun 90 00:28:19 GMT
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kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) writes:
>micke@slaka.sirius.se (Mikael Karlsson) writes:
>>A new version of Snap will be available soon.
>>[Seventy-eight more lines detailing improvements to snap]
>For the benefit of those of us who don't have every PD program engraved
>into our brains, in future postings perhaps you could mention just what
>it is that Snap does?

Sorry about that. Here's a part of the documentation that hopefully
describes what Snap does:
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What is it?

  Snap is the perfect tool for the lazy typer. Isn't it
  irritating when you look at something on the screen
  and think: "That is what I'm going to type."?
  What if you could just point at it and get the computer to
  type it for you? That's where Snap comes to the rescue.
  Another thing that irritates me is that I'm sitting in
  front of THE computer and still I must have pen and
  paper available to scribble down something from the screen
  that I know I will need later. Snap provides a solution
  to that problem also. Just frame it and Snap creates a
  window with a copy of the screen contents. Perfect for
  snapping text from later on. This is another idea borrowed
  from the computer scientists at Xerox Palo Alto Research
  Center (you know, the ones who invented the mouse, windows,
  icons and stuff like that).


Why use Snap instead?

   a. Snap finds out the character coordinates automatically.
   b. Snap uses the RastPort's current font, not just Topaz 8.
   c. Snap was written by me.
   d. Snap supports all fixed width fonts with width<16.
   e. Snap supports accented characters (128-255).
   f. Snap supports keymaps.
   g. Snap does both column and text oriented snapping.
   h. Snap snaps graphics.
   i. Snap uses the clipboard, making it compatible with TxED (and NotePad).
   j. Snap understands inverted characters.
   k. Snap understands bold characters.
   l. Snap understands underlined characters
   m. Snap does word oriented snapping.
   n. Snap has ants.
   o. Snap has a key combination to do insert.
   p. Snap supports Xerox style snapping with immediate insert.
   q. Snap prepends and appends characters.
   r. Snap saves graphics.
   s. Snap caches the character offsets between windows.
   t. Snap joins long lines.
   u. Snap supports ARexx to read and set prepend and append strings.
   v. Snap handles an extra pixel line between character rows.
   w. Snap supports an alternate font for snapping.
   x. Snap supports fonts of any height, settable at compile time.
   y. Snap caches the fonts between windows.
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/Mikael

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