GGG Manual

This is a very brief manual for Gif•gIf•giF. It can be found online at http://www.peda.com/ggg/man.html. W e b e g i n with an overview of the single control window. All of the elements of the control window are described, proceeding from top to bottom. File Name The control window's name is the name of a saved animation, or "Untitled" if the animation has not been saved. Registered User's Name The user's name is displayed next. GIF† animations produced using Gif•gIf•giF include a GIF comment "Made by <user's name>, using Gif.gIf.giF v1.21.". GIF comments are not shown during playback, but can be seen by GIF editing programs. General Controls Start Press the Start button to begin recording a sequence of frames. After the button is pressed, a 3-second countdown is displayed, after which recording begins. Alternatively, recording may be started by pressing control-option-command. Grab The Grab button is used to capture single frames. Pressing the button causes the current area to be added to the current animation. Single frames may also be captured by pressing shift-option-command. Stop Press the stop button to halt a recording session that has been started using the Start button. Alternatively, recording may be stopped by pressing control-option-command. 0 Frames (0 bytes) Displays the size of the current animation, in frames and bytes. Large animations (in bytes) will take a long time to download; a 14.4k modem can download 60-80K per minute when there are minimal network delays. After saving, the animation will be slightly larger, as a file terminator must be added after the last frame. Capture Area The desired capture area should be selected before recording an animation. Once frames are recorded, the capture area cannot be changed. Size: 400x300 Displays the current size of the capture area; in this case the capture area is 400 pixels wide and 300 pixels high. With unregistered copies the sizes before and after inserting the "Unregistered Copy" banner are displayed. Top Left: 0,0 Displays the coordinates of the top left corner of the capture area; in this case the capture area includes the top left corner of the display. Such information is useful if one can fine-tune the program being captured to stay within the capture area. Show Area When checked, causes the current capture area to be outlined with a slowly moving frame. The outline is just outside the capture area, so the moving frame will not be p…