Screen capture??

[Kathleen04]

I keep trying to do a screen capture and it won't work.

Is it alt-print screen..ctrl-printscreen..ctrl, alt printscreen??..I tried a bunch, why isn't it working? :banghead:

[The Traveler]

1. cntrl-alt-printscreen

Looks like it dumps the current window. A bitmap is written to the clipboard, which can then be pasted into windows paint or other image handling application.

cntrl-printscreen dumps the entire desktop to the clipboard.

Does this help?

[Kathleen04]

2. It's still not working for me

I'll try to restart my computer and try again.

[The Traveler]

12. Curses. I wonder

if the key mapping has been redefined some how.

[mcscajun]

3. Two ways to go

The PrintScreen button by itself will capture everything shown on your monitor at that moment and send it to the Clipboard.

ALT +PrintScreen is good for capturing only the active window (when you see more than one window on your desktop). This is especially useful to capture error messages or other dialog boxes.

Note that PrintScreen only sends the image to the Clipboard.
Once you've got a screen capture, then you have to paste that into an application like Word, PowerPoint, Paint, the various graphics applications out there. Whatever.

[Kathleen04]

4. I do alt-printscreen

and then when I go to Photoshop/Paint..it doesn't seem to register that I have "copied" anything...

[mcscajun]

5. Do you have Photoshop or Paint open before you do the capture?

Some programs, especially the MS-Office suite, wipe out the "copy" you've done when they open themselves.

Then you have to do the copy over before it will be recognized as 'pastable'.

[Kathleen04]

6. Yep

It's open..I'm not sure why this isn't working...

[mcscajun]

10. Look in your System Tools for the Clipboard Viewer.

Do a PrintScreen capture, and pull up the Clipboard Viewer.

At least then you can isolate the problem. If you get something on the viewer, then it's the target application that's the problem, not the PrintScreen capture.

If you get nothing on the viewer, then maybe it's the keyboard, or the infamous 'intermittent glitch'.

[Kathleen04]

11. Found system tools, but no clipboard viewer..

Thanks for takin me through this step-by-step.. :)

[mcscajun]

13. Silly me. I forgot to Translate into "XP"

I'm still on an earlier O/S.

Check out this link to find where the dandy folks at Microshaft hid the Clipboard Viewer.

http://www.andyrathbone.com/tips/clipbrd.html

[Kathleen04]

14. Aha thanks

I'll give that a try..

[Jamastiene]

7. Just hit the Print Screen/SysRq button on

your keyboard, then open up MSPaint and hold down ctrl and type the v key on your keyboard. If it asks you if you want it enlarged to fit the screen capture into the window, just click yes. After that, do any editing you want to do and save it as whatever you want to call it.bmp

That should work. I have found some programs won't let you do a screen capture. I know Age Of Empires will do it, but it shows up with a black screen for the action in the game...Sadly.

[Kathleen04]

8. Still not workin'

I've just been testing it using my brower w/ DU up--its still not registering anything as having been copied..

[Jamastiene]

9. Must be a glitch, maybe.

Wish I knew more. If LadyHawk was around, I bet she would know what to do.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

15. Why, is your screen on the loose?

:rofl:

I just use Printscreen, and it works okey dokey.

[mcscajun]

16. Yep...her screen is on the loose...on the beach...and being chased...

...by an extremely large, oddly bouncy soft white ball.

Any thoughts?

:D

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

18. Whoa.... flashback city!

I just finished watching the entire series (17 episodes) and now MY screen is a bit flighty, too.... :bounce:

If you're on a Windoze machine, all that's needed is Printscreen. You don't have to use Alt or any other hot key. Then you just need a graphics program you can paste into-- I use an ancient copy of LView Pro 32 for Win95 (simple, yet elegant and it works very well for viewing and cropping pics).

If it's not working, then suspect your keyboard of being bad. There's not really much that can go wrong!

[mcscajun]

19. I'm suspecting her keyboard more and more...

...awaiting her next report. :)

Meanwhile...I have all 17 eps on DVD and am planning a major marathon very soon. :)

[Kathleen04]

21. When I press print-screen

The window expands and my toolbar disappears..so pressing the key is doing something, it's just not copying like it's supposed to...

[mcscajun]

23. The verdict is in...

Turn off your PC...totally. Let it rest for a minute. Turn it back on. If you still have this problem after the hard boot, then your keyboard is Fucked. Toss it and get a new one.

Thankfully, they're cheap. :)

[Kathleen04]

26. No such luck

Thankfully this laptop has a warranty..I was going to see if they'd do something about this keyboard already, as the letters are actually wearing off. :o

In the meantime, I'll go try out a screen-capture program. Thanks for your help. :)

[Kathleen04]

20. You mean this is actually part of the problem?

:)

[mcscajun]

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[hyphenate]

17. Get Snag-it

I use it all the time for screen caps. I think they have a trial version so you can play with it before hand.

[Lady Effingbroke]

22. I don't know if you are interested in using a screen capture program,

but I use a Gadwin PrintScreen. It is free and you can resize screen captures, capture only an outlined area, etc.

[Kathleen04]

25. Thanks, I will try this

:)

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

27. D'oh! You didn't say you were using a laptop!

Turn your NumLock off- it may be remapping some of your keys.

[Kathleen04]

28. I tried that also..

sigh sigh sigh.. :shrug:

[mcscajun]

30. Yeah...Now She tells us...

:)

[Kathleen04]

29. OK, its definately the keyboard..

I downloaded the Gadwin Printscreen program..and it sets the default key for capturing as "Printscreen", which didn't work, BUT you can change it to another key..so I chose F1 and voila! That works. :)