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From: jackz@izuba.ee.lbl.gov (Jack Zelver)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows image grabber
Message-ID: <10135@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 21 Feb 91 22:07:53 GMT
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Reply-To: jackz@izuba.ee.lbl.gov (Jack Zelver)
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley
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In article <12811@arctic.nprdc.navy.mil> jones@nprdc.navy.mil (David Ryan-Jones) writes:

>...
>
>I have tried this method for "capturing" the image in a window.  While the 
>window is placed into clipboard, the only portion of the window that can be 
>placed into Paintbrush is the portion that is visible on the screen in 
>clipboard.  This is often much less than the entire image.  However, the image
>can be completely saved to a file from the clipboard.  It would be much more 
>useful if the entire image could be transferred to a Paintbrush-like program. 
>The Win 3 manual does mention this problem of partial transfer from the 
>clipboard to other windows programs. 
>
>David Ryan-Jones
>
...

Re - your post on pasting into paintbrush:  Try zooming out BEFORE you
paste. Then paste, and click on another tool to fix the incoming window's
position before you zoom back.  You also need to make sure you have the
default settings for paintbrush to 640x480, color, (whatever your screen
size is) or you only get part of the clipboard.  I have an 1024x768 
screen and manage regularly to paste the ENTIRE screen into paintbrush 
with this method.

I find it best to be cautious about absolute statements like the ones you
posted saying what can and can't be done... someone always seems to find a
way to prove me wrong (and you too, in this one case).  ;-)

Jack Zelver
jszelver@lbl.gov