Phil.Scovell@f810.n104.z1.fidonet.org (Phil Scovell) (04/13/91)
Index Number: 14824
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
Did any of you guys and gals who were talking about the screen capture
program called SNIPPER ever get it to work? I have finally got it working
but unless I'm reading the doc file incorrectly, something not uncommon with
my small computer sense, it isn't working like it should. I can capture a
screen all right but I have to move the cursor down to the bottom line and
also move it clean over to the right hand margine before saving it to the
screen.cut filename. It appears that the docs say that the default capture
is one whole screen but perhaps I'm mistaken. I have tried leaving the
cursoron column 1 and then moving it down to the bottom row and saving it
but oddly enough, all I get in the screen cut file is the first letter in
every row on the left margine. Figure that one out and you when a free trip
to ping pong Alaska. It is a very nice little program but somebody either
explain what I'm not doing or suggest a program that you don't have to move
the cursor half way around the world for results. Willie, didn't I read
somewhere of another screen capture program you have?
Phil.
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Internet: Phil.Scovell@f810.n104.z1.fidonet.orgJeff.Salzberg@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Jeff Salzberg) (04/13/91)
Index Number: 14829
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
How to use SNIPPER:
(Disclaimer: Folks, I have no earthly idea how this works with speech.)
Run SNIPPER from the command line. It's a TSR.
Later, when you want to save all or part of a screen to a text file,
press ALT-W. A block cursor will appear in column one of row one on the
screen (help me here, Willie; has SNIPPER now become absolutely useless
to blind users?). If you've already used SNIPPER during that session,
the cursor will not be at the top left; it will be wherever you left it
last (your mother TOLD you to remember where you left your toys, didn't
she?)
Assuming that the answer to my question is negative, move the cursor to
the beginning of the block of text you wish to save. Press ENTER.
use your cursor arrows to highlight the entire block you wish to save
(is it useless yet?). When you've done so, press ENTER again.
A Menu appears at the top left giving you the following options:
File - lets you save the text to a disk file.
Print - dumps the text to a printer.
Save - saves the text to a buffer in RAM, to be recalled later.
Get - recalls any text that's been saved to the buffer and
clears the buffer.
Choose F, P, S, G, or hit ESCAPE.
If you choose "F", a prompt will appear at the top left giving you a
default file name; you may backspace over this and save to the file name
of your choice.
If you choose "S", you may then reposition the cursor to the location
into which you wish to copy the text. When you're ready to recall the
text, press ALT-W and then "G". You may also have to press ENTER at
this point; the program's a little inconsistent.
I hope this helps.
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Internet: Jeff.Salzberg@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.orgRick.Alfaro@f8.n369.z1.fidonet.org (Rick Alfaro) (04/13/91)
Index Number: 14833
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
WW> Hey Phil,
WW> You're small computer sense got you a heck of a lot
WW> further with Snipper than I got!
WW> Seriously, I loaded it from the dos command line, got an
WW> empty file or something like that, and quickly went back to
WW> reading my mail and forgot about it!
WW> One thing I did briefly consider doing was loading it
WW> before speech and seeing if that was what was causing the
WW> conflict, the order of things in memory, but since I don't
WW> really have the need for Snipper, I never bothered with this
WW> approach. I'll give it a try later and let you know what I
Willie,
Just a point of interest here if you are using Vocal Eyes...You probably
already know this, but other vocal eyes users may not be aware, or
possibly not remember the fact that Vocal Eyes has its own "Snipper
like" utility built-in. The Vocal Eyes clippboard can be used to grab
anything from the screen into a buffer, and paste the info into any
other application you want. You just go into review and mark off the
block with the mark key. This info is stored into a buffer and can
later be pasted by using whatever hot key you have defined as the "write
clippboard" key. I use this very very often, and it is one of the many
features in Vocal Eyes that I have grown to really appreciate. One of
the ways I use it, is when on line with a bbs for example. If I am
doing a listing of files and there is one that I heard that I want to
download, and it is one of those hard to remember file names, I just go
into review, mark the file name, and then when asked for what file to
download by the bbs, I just hit the paste clippboard key, and there is
the filename sitting at the prompt waiting for me to press return to
start the download. The buffer can also be appended to if desired.
Likewise, I use the clippboard for many many other things too numerous
to list here. For those reading this, the clippboard is not a beta
feature. It has been in vocal eyes since before version 1.0...Hope this
gets some of the Vocal Eyes users using this easily forgotten, but
extremely handy feature!!!
Regards,
Rick
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