Screen capture

Running XP Home/SP2 ....
I find it necessary to run an old DOS graphing
program under CMD. It runs and I can make the graph
but it will only print to long-obsolete dot-matrix
printers. So I'd like to capture the screen and save
and print the captured .JPG image.

But PrtScrn and Ctrl-PrintScreen don't seem to capture
it. When I exit, IrfanView won't Paste it in. Any clues,
hints, suggestions? Thanks.

Visit http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/14604.html
Note response #2


--
Don
Vancouver, USA



"William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> Running XP Home/SP2 ....
> I find it necessary to run an old DOS graphing
> program under CMD. It runs and I can make the graph
> but it will only print to long-obsolete dot-matrix
> printers. So I'd like to capture the screen and save
> and print the captured .JPG image.
>
> But PrtScrn and Ctrl-PrintScreen don't seem to capture
> it. When I exit, IrfanView won't Paste it in. Any clues,
> hints, suggestions? Thanks.

Don Schmidt wrote:
> Visit http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/14604.html
> Note response #2
>
>
Great link, Don, thanks. But I read #2 and it says go to Power Load link
above and I couldn't find it/ I presume it will lead me to Screen Thief
but I didn't see the link......

"William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> Don Schmidt wrote:
>> Visit
>> http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/14604.html
>> Note response #2
>>
>>
> Great link, Don, thanks. But I read #2 and it says go to
> Power Load link above and I couldn't find it/ I presume it
> will lead me to Screen Thief
> but I didn't see the link......

I use Wisdom Soft's Screen Hunter 5.0. It is a free
download from
http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter.htm

It can be set to capture from the entire screen, a window or
a rectangular area to either the clipboard or to a
autoincrementing file or both. It will capture DOS windows
also without any problems.

LVTravel wrote:
> "William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.net> wrote in message
> news:OFqvL7GiIHA.4764@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Don Schmidt wrote:
>>> Visit
>>> http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/14604.html
>>> Note response #2
>>>
>>>
>> Great link, Don, thanks. But I read #2 and it says go to
>> Power Load link above and I couldn't find it/ I presume it
>> will lead me to Screen Thief
>> but I didn't see the link......
>
> I use Wisdom Soft's Screen Hunter 5.0. It is a free
> download from
> http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter.htm
>
> It can be set to capture from the entire screen, a window or
> a rectangular area to either the clipboard or to a
> autoincrementing file or both. It will capture DOS windows
> also without any problems.
>
>
About Wisdom Soft's Screen Hunter 5.0......I just tried it,
and it works very nicely for anything via XP, but when
I ran my DOS program from CMD, I couldn't make it capture
the DOS-plotted graph on the screen using the Hot Key.......
Maybe I have to try it some more......

"William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:ePF37pJiIHA.3780@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> LVTravel wrote:
>> "William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.net> wrote in message
>> news:OFqvL7GiIHA.4764@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> Don Schmidt wrote:
>>>> Visit
>>>> http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/14604.html
>>>> Note response #2
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Great link, Don, thanks. But I read #2 and it says go to
>>> Power Load link above and I couldn't find it/ I presume
>>> it will lead me to Screen Thief
>>> but I didn't see the link......
>>
>> I use Wisdom Soft's Screen Hunter 5.0. It is a free
>> download from
>> http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter.htm
>>
>> It can be set to capture from the entire screen, a window
>> or a rectangular area to either the clipboard or to a
>> autoincrementing file or both. It will capture DOS
>> windows also without any problems.
> About Wisdom Soft's Screen Hunter 5.0......I just tried
> it,
> and it works very nicely for anything via XP, but when
> I ran my DOS program from CMD, I couldn't make it capture
> the DOS-plotted graph on the screen using the Hot
> Key.......
> Maybe I have to try it some more......

Don't know the issue are having because before I posted
originally, I tried to do a capture of a DOS window and it
worked OK. Are you running your DOS program full screen?
If so, try to run it in a window and see if SH can capture
it then.