mcorlett@ibmpcug.co.uk (M A Corlett) (02/18/91)
Dear All, Does anybody know of a tool which allows me to grab images of entire windows from the desktop, so I can paste them into documents? Something like Zoomin, but with an Edit menu. Thanks. Mike Corlett mcorlett@ibmpcug.co.uk -- Automatic Disclaimer: The views expressed above are those of the author alone and may not represent the views of the IBM PC User Group. --
mcl9337@aim1.tamu.edu (MARK CHRISTOPHER LOWE) (02/19/91)
In article <1991Feb18.133945.1293@ibmpcug.co.uk> mcorlett@ibmpcug.co.uk (M A Corlett) writes: >Does anybody know of a tool which allows me to grab images of entire windows >from the desktop, so I can paste them into documents? Something like Zoomin, >but with an Edit menu. I'm not sure if you know this or not, but I was quite surprised a few days ago to find out that if you hit PrintScrn from inside Windows, an image of the current screen will be placed in the Clipboard. From there, you can paste it into Paintbrush or some other utility and butcher it to your heart's content. Enjoy... Mark C. "Bro!" Lowe - KB5III
jackz@izuba.ee.lbl.gov (Jack Zelver) (02/22/91)
In article <12811@arctic.nprdc.navy.mil> jones@nprdc.navy.mil (David Ryan-Jones) writes: >... > >I have tried this method for "capturing" the image in a window. While the >window is placed into clipboard, the only portion of the window that can be >placed into Paintbrush is the portion that is visible on the screen in >clipboard. This is often much less than the entire image. However, the image >can be completely saved to a file from the clipboard. It would be much more >useful if the entire image could be transferred to a Paintbrush-like program. >The Win 3 manual does mention this problem of partial transfer from the >clipboard to other windows programs. > >David Ryan-Jones > ... Re - your post on pasting into paintbrush: Try zooming out BEFORE you paste. Then paste, and click on another tool to fix the incoming window's position before you zoom back. You also need to make sure you have the default settings for paintbrush to 640x480, color, (whatever your screen size is) or you only get part of the clipboard. I have an 1024x768 screen and manage regularly to paste the ENTIRE screen into paintbrush with this method. I find it best to be cautious about absolute statements like the ones you posted saying what can and can't be done... someone always seems to find a way to prove me wrong (and you too, in this one case). ;-) Jack Zelver jszelver@lbl.gov
jme@Pacer.UUCP (John Eikanger) (02/25/91)
In article <12337@helios.TAMU.EDU> mcl9337@aim1.tamu.edu (MARK CHRISTOPHER LOWE) writes: > >I'm not sure if you know this or not, but I was quite surprised a few days ago >to find out that if you hit PrintScrn from inside Windows, an image of the >current screen will be placed in the Clipboard. From there, you can paste it >into Paintbrush or some other utility and butcher it to your heart's content. > >Enjoy... > >Mark C. "Bro!" Lowe - KB5III This is quite true, but Paint clips the screen image you bring in from the clipboard. You can reduce this problem by suppressing the icons and pallet, and by zooming out, but the clipping still occurs. Does anyone know how to eliminate the clipping, or is there another package that does the job properly? We'll be needing the capability in a few months when we put together the docs for our application. John Eikanger - A former Boeing Employee and proud of it
tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones) (02/27/91)
Yes Paint clips the image, but you can get around that too. Zoom out first and then paste. This will let you paste the whole thing.
regoli@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli) (02/27/91)
In article <12337@helios.TAMU.EDU> mcl9337@aim1.tamu.edu (MARK CHRISTOPHER LOWE) writes: I'm not sure if you know this or not, but I was quite surprised a few days ago to find out that if you hit PrintScrn from inside Windows, an image of the current screen will be placed in the Clipboard. From there, you can paste it into Paintbrush or some other utility and butcher it to your heart's content. Indeed. However, does anyone know why Windows refuses to copy high bits when in a DOS session (full screen)? In other words, characters such as ASCII 176 through 223 don't get transferred to the clipboard. I'm writing a software manual and I'd like to take some screen shots of the software that's running in text-mode. (I'd use WordPerfect's GRAB utility, but I'm not in graphics mode.) -- michael regoli regoli@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu regoli@iubacs.BITNET