Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!michaelt From: michaelt@microsoft.UUCP (Michael THURLKILL) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: ScreenDump on Window 3.0 Message-ID: <55618@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 3 Jul 90 17:55:25 GMT References: <3940@zap.sw.mcc.com> Reply-To: michaelt@microsoft.UUCP (Michael THURLKILL) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 38 In article <3940@zap.sw.mcc.com> adrian@zap.sw.mcc.com (Adrian Lao) writes: > >Does anybody know is there a program to do a screendump or window dump on >Window 3.0? > There was another posting that contained a cross posting from Compuserve that went into more detail, but also made some things more difficult than necessary. To do a screen dump in Win3, press the key to capture the whole screen, or press - to capture the active window. The image will be placed in the clipboard. Once you have the image in the clipboard, you can run the Clipbrd app and save the image in a .CLP file, you can run Windows Paintbrush (included with Win3), paste in the image in either color or monochrome format, and save it in PCX, mono .BMP, 16 color .BMP, 256 color .BMP, or 24 bit .BMP. You can also paste the image into Write, WinWord, or other applications that allow it. Other apps may not allow saving in .BMP format, but only as part of a document. As noted in the other posting, if you want the image in monochrome format you will want to set your screen colors so that they look good as monochrome, since all colors except white will go to black. However, you can print color images from Paintbrush to a monochrome printer and the image will look fairly good. This is because the new Device Independant Bitmap (DIB) format provides enough information so that different devices can display or print a given image, and map colors grays, or dithered patterns so that the image looks generally correct. Also, if you have the SDK, the Showdib sample program can read the captured image from the clipboard, and display and save the image. The source code is included, so you can make any modifications to better suit your particular needs. Mike Thurlkill Disclaimer: These are my opinions. They should not be mis-construed as being correct or having any relation to my employer.