[comp.sys.mac.misc] Screen dumper that can dump menus?

tgl@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) (11/02/90)

I know this has been asked before, but I wasn't paying attention...

I need a screen dump utility that can take a snapshot of the screen
*while a menu is pulled down*, and put the snapshot into a file (I'm
not too picky about the file format).

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derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa) (11/03/90)

tgl@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) writes:

>I need a screen dump utility that can take a snapshot of the screen
>*while a menu is pulled down*, and put the snapshot into a file (I'm
>not too picky about the file format).

I use Capture by Mainstay that will allow you to capture menus
that are pulled down.  But that costs money and we need share
ware, correct?

There are three shareware screen capture programs that I know of

UTIL/SCREEN-TO-CLIP.HQX
UTIL/SCREENDUMP-II.HQX
UTIL/SCREENSNAP-22.HQX
 
of which I have only used screensnap which cannot do what you want.
I don't know anything about the other two.  Does anyone else?

I know that in the dim dark past there was a DA that would 
wait a given amount of time before taking a picture and would
then capture pull down menus.  I think that name had a camera
in it.  Let's look at the archives:

DA/CAMERA.HQX

This may be it, give it a try.

us267418@mmm.serc.3m.com (Andy R. Ihlenfeldt) (11/03/90)

In article <10961@pt.cs.cmu.edu> tgl@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) writes:
>I need a screen dump utility that can take a snapshot of the screen
>*while a menu is pulled down*, and put the snapshot into a file (I'm
>not too picky about the file format).
>
Snapjot (from Wildflower Software, 21W171 Coronet R., Lombard, IL 60148  
(708) 916-9360 ) works very well for me.  It is commercial, but it's also 
fairly cheap and they've been good at supporting and upgrading it.  Their 
new version handles multiple file formats, among other enhancements.

I recommend it.

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Andy Ihlenfeldt
3M, St. Paul, MN
arihlenfeldt@mmm.hesd.3m.com