[Shotimes] New +20 cam dyno results

[Adam Parrott]

Back in the "ol' days" of computing, the Print Screen button actually did 
just that - it would dump the contents of the current screen (or buffer, 
depending on the environment or program you were utilizing) directly to the 
printer.  Nowadays, the Print Screen button only serves to copy the 
contents of the active screen to the clipboard (as noted by Kevin and Bill) 
when working in anything newer than Windows 3.1x.

Additional miscellaneous factoid on this subject, BTW - did you know that 
you can also use the Alt + Print Screen key combination to copy the 
contents of a single client window (eg. a browser window, e-mail message 
window, options dialogue box, etc.)?  This method is especially handy when 
you just want to copy a single window by itself (rather than the entire 
active screen) and/or you don't have access to some good photo editing 
software with advanced screen capturing ability.  ;)

Adam


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donald Mallinson" <dmall@mwonline.net>
To: "Bill Murray" <fordsho@cloud9grafx.com>
Cc: ""Donald Mallinson <dmall@mwonline.net>;shotimes" ;" 
<shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] New +20 cam dyno results


Well I'll be.

Control V worked.

Learn something new almost every day!

In at least one of my previous computers the printscreen function DID
send the screen immediately to the printer.  But this is better,
probably why they changed it.

Thanks  :)

Don Mallinsoin

Bill Murray wrote:

>Its a misnomer.  Hitting the key does not automatically send it to the 
>printer.  It does however taje a picture of what you have on the screen. 
>When you have your dyno graph open(or any thing on the screen you may 
>want) hit the print screen button.  Then open an image program like Ms 
>Paint, or even Ms Word.  Now hit ctrl-v or edit -paste.  You should now 
>see a picture of your screen.  If you did that in an imaging program you 
>can now crop out what you don't want from the image.
>
>Bill Murray