Screen Shot Converter

Unreal tournament 2004 Screenshot Convertor
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What is it?
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In short an automatic screenshot convertor for unreal tournament 2004.

The convertor runs in the system tray (lower right corner of the screen) and 
it detects when ut2004 is running. After ut2004 is closed down the program will
convert the bitmaps to JPG and move them optionaly to another directory. 
All this is done in the background so u won't notice a thing. And it doesn't
interfere with the game since it only does any work when ut 2004 is closed down!

How does it work
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When you first run the program it will ask u to fill in the options. Choose
the unreal tournament's 2004 directory and choose an optionally folder where u 
want the screenshots to be saved (in case u don't want them in the default folder anymore).
The timer check value is something wich u can leave on the normal value of 250,
it is used to check if the game is running or not! 
Choose the action what needs to be done after ut is closed down and your done.
Press the X button to let the program run in the system tray, only then it is active and
it will show a Blue U icon. If u had chosen not to do anything it will show a blue U icon
with a red cross over it Meaning it's not active.
Run ut2004 take screenshots and the program will convert them after u closed it down.
It will show a purple U icon while its converting!
Right click the tray icon to show the menu of actions or left click it to bring up
the options window. While converting this menu isn't availible nor will u be albe
to call the options dialog!
To close the program right click the tray icon (when options screens is closed down
a tray icon will be made visible) and choose exit!

Please note, you don't have to fill in the screenshot directory if u aren't going to
let ure pictures move to another directory then the one ut2k4 uses. Convert is enough then.

What's new from the ut2003 version
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Due to the introducing of a new screenshot saving system and a filename mask in ut2004,
the convertor now no longer uses it's own counting system for the converted images, 
for the simple reason that it isn't needed anymore. 
UT2004 keeps track of the screenshot number and so that shot numbers wil always continue, 
even when the bitmaps are deleted.
This means that the converted jpeg image filename will be exactly as it was before except
for the jpeg extension of course.

Fixed a small bug in the systemtray icon code, nothing really noticeable.

Made a check so u can only run one instance of the program at a time.

New Icons, tried to make em look like ut2003 ones almost succeeded ;)

upx compressed binary (smaller size)

Other info
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IF it is the first time you run the program, and you got a lot of screenshots in
your screenshot folder it wil take a while before all files are converted, this is 
normal ! Next time it won't take so long.

Do not play with the shotcount property in ut2004. If u reset it ut2004 and thus
also this convertor, it will overwrite images if they existed before. This version
for ut2004 keeps the same filenames as ut2004 made except for the exentesion of course.

If U enter an invalid ut2004 directory or screenshot directory and the option
you choose needs those directory's, and u choose to close down the app instead of
respecifing a valid directory, the program will reset the start up minimized option
so you can respecify valid directory's next time it starts!

The program doesn't affect Unreal tournament 2004 gameplay What so ever it runs completely
outside of the game. It won't take any longer to create a screenshot since the screenshots
are only converted / moved AFTER Unreal Tournament 2004 is closed Down!

There is an option to compress the jpg images, for those that don't know 0% compression
gives u the best image quality but the filesize is also bigger (still 10 times smaller as bmp)
if u choose 100% compression image quality is the worst but filesize is very very small !
I've set a default value of 25%, its a good value since u can't notice the visual quality
is lower. Feel free to experiment with it.

If u have any problems, feel free to mail me or post your problem on the forums availible
on my website. There is no need for registration, u can post ure problem anonymous.

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IF you would like to mirror this file on your site you may do so AS LONG AS YOU
PUT A LINK TO MY MAIN SITE on your site being Http://www.willemssoft.be

This program is freeware and can not be sold, you may however put it on cdroms
from magazines, books, compilation cd's etc as long as u let me know about it!

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Creator
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Created by Willems Davy (aka Joyrider) [email protected]
Willems Soft 2004 Http://www.willemssoft.be

Hope u like it !