-- GOTCHA! 1.78 --

 Gotcha! is an OS/2 screen capture utility. It allows to capture either
windows, window interiors, parts of the screen or the whole desktop and
save them to disk in many image formats (if OS/2 Multimedia is installed)
or clipboard. Serial capture and batch mode options are available.

 Since v1.73, Gotcha! is free software released under the GPL. See the
file COPYING for details.

 As an exception the translation to Brazilian Portuguese
(portbras.rc and portbras.ipf) is copyright by rico Mendona.

 As another exception the Italian translation (italiano.rc and
italiano.ipf) is copyright by Alberto Gabrielli.


-- INSTALLATION --

 If you've unzipped the archive (which seems to be the case, since you
are reading this file ;-) and copied the files to some appropriate
directory, you're almost done.

 The only thing else you'll have to do is to copy the file "gotcha.dll"
to some directory in your LIBPATH (x:\OS2\DLL e.g.).

 You may run "install.cmd" to create a WPS-object for Gotcha!.

 Note that the actual executable is in the "distr" subdirectory;
if you're not interested in developement, the files there are
probably the only ones of interest for you.


-- BUILDING --

 Gotcha! was originally developed under OS/2 using emx/gcc 0.9d and
dmake 4.0. I can't say if it would be hard to adjust it for other
compilers or make utilities (though I guess it will need some work to
port it to another OS due to missing seperation of program logic and
system specific issues like e.g. windowing - aka: bad code). If you
want to recompile the program, take a look at the Makefile and adjust
the settings (probably only the "I" macro that tells where you keep
your include files) and then just run dmake.

 The code is rather bad in most places and the whole program needs a
major rewrite, which I have been working on for a long (time since
the release of v1.65 in 1999!) but which is only very slowly progressing
due to my permanent lack of time.

Update May 2007: Forget about the rewrite; I have neither the time nor
the user interest for it. Sorry!


-- NOTE --

 If you get a SYS2070 error when starting this version of Gotcha! you
have an old version of the file gotcha.dll somewhere in your LIBPATH.
Delete it and everything should work.

 There also still seem to be some bugs/problems that cause a SYS3175
on some systems. Unfortunatly I haven't been able to find out what the
actual problem is or how to fix it. You might try an older version of
Gotcha! (all still available on the homepage) but I don't think chances
are high that one of those will work.


-- MORE INFO --

 For more information see Gotcha!'s online help!

Have fun!
Thorsten Thielen <thth@c2226.de>
(Member of Team OS/2 Region Trier e.V.)
