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From: darin@tmq.UUCP (Darin Adler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Screen->MacPaint DA
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Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 12:21:35 EDT
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> I need a way to get what's on the screen at random times into a
> MacPaint document.  One way might be to have a DA that copied the
> screen to a file in MacPaint format and then asked for a file
> name.  Seems simple enough, has anyone done it?  Can such a DA
> be bought or aquired?
> 
> Oh, DA = Desk Accessory.  Thanx in advance.

There is a key sequence which dumps the screen to a Paint document that
is fairly well known.  It is Shift-CMD-3.  This will dump to a file
called "Screen 0" and if that exists, "Screen 1" and so on.  Just for
grins, the code that does this is in the System file in the FKEY 3 resource.

Darin Adler
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