winXP clipboard thingie

[John Larkin]

Hi, I'm still running '98 but will soon get new computers and I
suppose they'll come with XP. So I was experimenting with my wife's
new Dell machine with XP.

I have a lot of programs I wrote in the DOS version of PowerBasic, and
I've been checking to see if they're OK under XP. Everything seems to
work, including the full-screen VGA graphics stuff. BUT...

I can't find any way to screen capture a VGA graphics screen to the
clipboard. The usual prntscrn or alt/ditto have no effect on a VGA
screen in graphics mode, and none of the properties/hotkey settings
seem to make any difference. Anybody know anything about this?

I see that there are some add-on utilities that claim to be able to
capture an XP screen in any mode, Snagit and such, so I may have to
install one of these I guess.

Funny, when I look up the internal (not online) Windows Help on this
subject, the text refers to Windows 2000. They can't even get the name
of the OS right. At least now you can drag an EXE file from a floppy
and it doesn't create a shortcut instead.

John

 

[John Smith]

"John Larkin" <jjSNIPlarkin@highTHISlandPLEASEtechnology.XXX> wrote in
message news:9v66v0101cidq8v5h5r2otnd8rcvk4g5hb@4ax.com...

Hi, I'm still running '98 but will soon get new computers and I
suppose they'll come with XP. So I was experimenting with my wife's
new Dell machine with XP.

I have a lot of programs I wrote in the DOS version of PowerBasic, and
I've been checking to see if they're OK under XP. Everything seems to
work, including the full-screen VGA graphics stuff. BUT...

I can't find any way to screen capture a VGA graphics screen to the
clipboard. The usual prntscrn or alt/ditto have no effect on a VGA
screen in graphics mode, and none of the properties/hotkey settings
seem to make any difference. Anybody know anything about this?

The usual "Print Screen" key works fine here. Using XP.

John

 

[Terry Pinnell]

John Larkin <jjSNIPlarkin@highTHISlandPLEASEtechnology.XXX> wrote:

Hi, I'm still running '98 but will soon get new computers and I
suppose they'll come with XP. So I was experimenting with my wife's
new Dell machine with XP.

I have a lot of programs I wrote in the DOS version of PowerBasic, and
I've been checking to see if they're OK under XP. Everything seems to
work, including the full-screen VGA graphics stuff. BUT...

I can't find any way to screen capture a VGA graphics screen to the
clipboard. The usual prntscrn or alt/ditto have no effect on a VGA
screen in graphics mode, and none of the properties/hotkey settings
seem to make any difference. Anybody know anything about this?

I see that there are some add-on utilities that claim to be able to
capture an XP screen in any mode, Snagit and such, so I may have to
install one of these I guess.

Funny, when I look up the internal (not online) Windows Help on this
subject, the text refers to Windows 2000. They can't even get the name
of the OS right. At least now you can drag an EXE file from a floppy
and it doesn't create a shortcut instead.

John

I'm pretty sure Snagit from Techsmith can do it.

http://www.techsmith.com/

--
Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

 

[Tom Del Rosso]

"Spehro Pefhany" <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote in message
news:cfu7v0psbp4cj12dgi5fingkrs8gr6h3mi@4ax.com...

You can do that with Win2K too, but by default it copies files from
removable or network drives rather than moving them.

You can override the default behavior and make it create a shortcut or
move (or to get it to copy if it was going to move) the file by
holding Shift, Alt or Ctrl when dragging the file. The icon changes to
tell you what it's about to do. Very nice and intuitive if you ask me.

OS/2 had the same feature in version 3, Spring 1993. It took MS only
slightly more than 7 years to match its functionality and reliability, and
with only 16 times the RAM and 16 times the disk requirements.

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[Boris Mohar]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:49:06 -0800, John Larkin
<jjSNIPlarkin@highTHISlandPLEASEtechnology.XXX> wrote:

I can't find any way to screen capture a VGA graphics screen to the
clipboard. The usual prntscrn or alt/ditto have no effect on a VGA

This may be somewhat OT. I am using Clipmate from http://www.thornsoft.com/
It is a stacking clipboard where all the clips are saved in I into order you
created them. Has its own folders, network capability with sharing.
Something that windows should had from day one. I couldn't work without it.

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Boris Mohar