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Thread ID: 114241	2010-11-23 22:05:00	'Print Screen' issue	Billy T (70)	Press F1

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1156048	2010-11-30 21:00:00	So if it says it's capturing have you tried pasting it into paint to see if it has actually captured it. If nothing else works try a digital camera on a short tripod with flash turned off for screen capturing can work very well. I know it's not as simple as just pressing a button on the keyboard but would give you a work around	gary67 (56)
1156049	2010-11-30 21:28:00	Bump! Anybody know what the cryptic message in the image might mean in tech terms? Cheers Billy 8-{) :confused: :confused: That is a message that IrfanView gives when any clipboard file is pasted in. It does not appear to be specific to your problem, but just why it says that I'm not sure yet.	Terry Porritt (14)
1156050	2010-11-30 22:10:00	What type of output does this program generate ? if it's simply text can you print to a file from the program or using dos commands ? I am very rusty on DOS but seem to remember using a DOS batch file to print a dir listing to a text file using redirect commands to set the output to a file rather than a printer. A bit late in the piece I know ,ut I don't see it suggested anywhere and if the program generates text it should be possible to create a text file from it. Food for thought maybe	dugimodo (138)
1156051	2010-11-30 22:30:00	Just a couple notes, I read on another forum that windows XP doesn't allow screen capture of dos windows in fullscreen mode and that it's a limitation of the OS that no program can work around. I note in one of your posts you say it's stuck in fullscreen so that is the problem, convince it to run in a window and all should be fixed. Secondly regarding my earlier comment if you add ">>example.txt" without speech marks to the end of a dos command that normally outputs txt it will write it to the example.txt file instead, could be useful ?	dugimodo (138)
1156052	2010-11-30 22:55:00	As I have tried to mention before. Run the program in a Window rather than Full screen or have you tried this??	Snorkbox (15764)
1156053	2010-11-30 23:32:00	Just a couple notes, I read on another forum that windows XP doesn't allow screen capture of dos windows in fullscreen mode and that it's a limitation of the OS that no program can work around. I note in one of your posts you say it's stuck in fullscreen so that is the problem, convince it to run in a window and all should be fixed. Secondly regarding my earlier comment if you add ">>example.txt" without speech marks to the end of a dos command that normally outputs txt it will write it to the example.txt file instead, could be useful ? I did mention earlier that I can capture a "DOS" full screen in XP and paste to Irfan view, with either the full screen from the command.com or cmd.exe commands. So I think the statement above that XP doesn't allow this is erroneous, or was due to finger trouble ?	Terry Porritt (14)
1156054	2010-12-01 00:18:00	As a point of interest, when a captured DOS screen shot is pasted into Irfanview the black backgound becomes white, and the text becomes black:	Terry Porritt (14)
1156055	2010-12-01 01:29:00	Finger trouble ? not sure what you mean by that. Anyway the comment about fullscreen was something I read on another forum and not from my own experience, however I just opened a dos window on this machine and tried it, can copy & paste into paint from a window easily but if I alt - enter to fullscreen mode it no longer works, paint has the paste option greyed out. This laptop runs XP pro sp 2	dugimodo (138)
1156056	2010-12-01 02:23:00	Finger trouble ? not sure what you mean by that. Anyway the comment about fullscreen was something I read on another forum and not from my own experience, however I just opened a dos window on this machine and tried it, can copy & paste into paint from a window easily but if I alt - enter to fullscreen mode it no longer works, paint has the paste option greyed out. This laptop runs XP pro sp 2 Interesting. In Paint the paste option is indeed greyed out when trying to paste a full dos screen, but it isn't in IrfanView, which I mostly use. So it isn't a question of not being able to capture a full DOS screen in XP, but rather a function of the graphics program used accepting it. There is also no paste option in an old version of LviewPro, or with Jasc Paintshop Pro 8. The full screen capture can be viewed in XP via ClipBook Viewer which proves that Print Screen does actually capture in full screen mode. In Win 7 there is no ClipBook viewer, a third party program has to be used. By 'finger trouble'. I meant perhaps the writer of the forum post you read had got things wrong. It's an old saying of my generation, related to the phrase 'to pull your finger out'.:banana Edit: I was using XP Pro SP3	Terry Porritt (14)
1156057	2010-12-01 04:03:00	So if it says it's capturing have you tried pasting it into paint to see if it has actually captured it. If nothing else works try a digital camera on a short tripod with flash turned off for screen capturing can work very well. I know it's not as simple as just pressing a button on the keyboard but would give you a work around Jeez my friend, you really should read the thread before asking such a silly question. I know you are trying to help, but what kind of prat would do a print-screen then not try to dump it into Paint or some other program?? You have to have tried that first anyway to know that it wasn't working!! For the record I've tried Irfanview, Paint and Photodraw. No point in trying any others, especially since I now have good reason to believe that Print Screen is grabbing the image but it is either mangling it or the next step in the process is corrupted. My bet is the mangling. No need to photograph either, I can roll out my P75 W95 Libretto that I use to download the data on site and Print-Screen on that, then transfer to a floppy and dump it onto my new computer. But I'd rather do it all on the one computer, which is why I am looking for the cause of the problem, and/or a permanent solution. I might give DOS Box a go when I get some spare time, either that or load MS Virtual Machine and install WFWG3.11. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
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