The Picture Window Gadgets
figure 1: The Picture Window Gadgets
Like most Windows programs, Snappy displays its pictures in windows. There are some unique features of a Snappy picture window, however, that you may wish to know about. On the title bar of the window (to the right of the name of the picture, see figure 1) you will see two special gadgets, or buttons. From left to right, they are the Show Full Screen button and then the Actual Size/Fit to Window buttons. The Actual Size/Fit to Window button is a toggle. Pressing it changes it from one mode to the other.
Full Screen
When this button is clicked, Snappy will replace the entire Windows desktop with the picture in the current window. Nothing else will appear on the screen besides the picture. If the image is larger than the desktop, it is scaled to fit, and if it is smaller, it is displayed with a black border. To leave this mode, just click on the right mouse button.
Show Full Screen will function the same way regardless of which of the Fit to Window or Actual Size buttons is selected, and when it is exited, the image is restored to an image window in whatever mode it was in previously.
Actual Size
In this mode, Snappy puts up a window over whatever portion of your picture would normally be visible on the Windows desktop. If your picture is larger than the workspace, then you will see scroll bars on the right and bottom edges of the window and you will need to "scroll around" to get to the parts that are hidden. If it is smaller, or the same size, you will not have the scroll bars.
Fit To Window
In this mode, which is the default setting for the picture window, the Snappy picture window and the picture are forced to be the same size. This is useful because it allows you to make a large window smaller and still see the entire, scaled-down image within. You could use this feature to allow the viewing of multiple pictures simultaneously. You will not be able to make an picture larger than it was originally snapped using this setting, however.
You should note that if you have a 640x480 picture on a 640x480 desktop, for example, then this setting will scale down the picture slightly so that the title bar of the window will be visible.
Save
This button is used to save the image you are working on. When you click this, a copy of the image is automatically saved to the SnapPAD (if the SnapPAD is open).
Cropping Tool
Cropping tools are used to cut select an area of the image you want to keep, and crop away the rest. When you press this button, your image is surrounded by dotted lines with tabs at all four corners and at the middle of each side. You can click-and-drag on these tabs to scale the cropping tool around a portion of the image you want to keep. You can then double-click on the area inside the cropping tool. A new window appears with your new image, (it will be of the area within the cropping tool). Your original image is left unharmed.