Screen Grab

[astroron (Ron)]

I am trying to grab an image of my screen,
I have pressed the ALT key and PrtScn SysRq and tried to import to my documents but nothing happens, what Am I doing wrong
I have done it before, but now can't get it to work

[iceman (Mike)]

It puts it on the clipboard - just use "paste" to paste it into a document.

[astroron (Ron)]

No Paste comes up when I try to do that?

[mill (Martin)]

Open up paint and then paste will be there.

[astroron (Ron)]

I am trying to grab the screen image of my weather station,
I have clicked on the image the held down the ALT and Print keys then gone into my documents to paste but paste does not come down on the drop down?

[astroron (Ron)]

Originally Posted by mill

Open up paint and then paste will be there.

Thankyou Martin

[Chillie (Henry)]

I use PrtSc on a regular basis. I don't hold down Alt when I hit PrtSc. I then paste it into Paint, do any editing, then save it to a file.

[chrisp9au (Chris)]

Hi Ron,

If you have any problems download a small program called Lightscreen
from: http://lightscreen.sourceforge.net/

This allows you to grab full screens, part screens, selected areas of a screen etc.

It works and it's free!

Cheers http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/....s/thumbsup.gif
Chris

[astroron (Ron)]

Thanks Henry and Chris,I had forgotten I had to go into Paint to retrieve it

[OzRob (Rob)]

Once you have used captured a screen control-V will paste it into an open document.

[ZeroID (Brent)]

Originally Posted by Chillie

I use PrtSc on a regular basis. I don't hold down Alt when I hit PrtSc. I then paste it into Paint, do any editing, then save it to a file.

Alt + PrtSc will print the Active window, not the whole screen.
Several free Screen Grab apps out there. I use Gadwin Printscreen. SHIFT + PRTSCRN lets me select the area to be captured.

[Chillie (Henry)]

Thanks Brent. I'll try to remember that.

[RAJAH235]

Hi Ron,
Ever heard of "Capiche"?
> http://www.jansfreeware.com/jftools.htm
Free & very useable.
I much prefer to use Snagit by Techsmith, but you have to pay ~$40.00 for it.

& if you use Firefox, there's always an extension or 3.