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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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Hi, I'm still running '98 but will soon get new computers and I
suppose they'll come with XP. So I was experimenting with my wife's
new Dell machine with XP.

I have a lot of programs I wrote in the DOS version of PowerBasic, and
I've been checking to see if they're OK under XP. Everything seems to
work, including the full-screen VGA graphics stuff. BUT...

I can't find any way to screen capture a VGA graphics screen to the
clipboard. The usual prntscrn or alt/ditto have no effect on a VGA
screen in graphics mode, and none of the properties/hotkey settings
seem to make any difference. Anybody know anything about this?

I see that there are some add-on utilities that claim to be able to
capture an XP screen in any mode, Snagit and such, so I may have to
install one of these I guess.

Funny, when I look up the internal (not online) Windows Help on this
subject, the text refers to Windows 2000. They can't even get the name
of the OS right. At least now you can drag an EXE file from a floppy
and it doesn't create a shortcut instead.

John
 
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Leon Heller

Jan 1, 1970
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John Larkin said:
Hi, I'm still running '98 but will soon get new computers and I
suppose they'll come with XP. So I was experimenting with my wife's
new Dell machine with XP.

I have a lot of programs I wrote in the DOS version of PowerBasic, and
I've been checking to see if they're OK under XP. Everything seems to
work, including the full-screen VGA graphics stuff. BUT...

I can't find any way to screen capture a VGA graphics screen to the
clipboard. The usual prntscrn or alt/ditto have no effect on a VGA
screen in graphics mode, and none of the properties/hotkey settings
seem to make any difference. Anybody know anything about this?

I see that there are some add-on utilities that claim to be able to
capture an XP screen in any mode, Snagit and such, so I may have to
install one of these I guess.

Funny, when I look up the internal (not online) Windows Help on this
subject, the text refers to Windows 2000. They can't even get the name
of the OS right. At least now you can drag an EXE file from a floppy
and it doesn't create a shortcut instead.

Just pressing PrtScr captures the screen OK for me with WinXP, and puts it
on the Clipboard. I can then paste it into Paint without any problems.

Leon
 
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John Smith

Jan 1, 1970
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John Larkin said:
Hi, I'm still running '98 but will soon get new computers and I
suppose they'll come with XP. So I was experimenting with my wife's
new Dell machine with XP.

I have a lot of programs I wrote in the DOS version of PowerBasic, and
I've been checking to see if they're OK under XP. Everything seems to
work, including the full-screen VGA graphics stuff. BUT...

I can't find any way to screen capture a VGA graphics screen to the
clipboard. The usual prntscrn or alt/ditto have no effect on a VGA
screen in graphics mode, and none of the properties/hotkey settings
seem to make any difference. Anybody know anything about this?


The usual "Print Screen" key works fine here. Using XP.

John
 
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Terry Pinnell

Jan 1, 1970
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John Larkin said:
Hi, I'm still running '98 but will soon get new computers and I
suppose they'll come with XP. So I was experimenting with my wife's
new Dell machine with XP.

I have a lot of programs I wrote in the DOS version of PowerBasic, and
I've been checking to see if they're OK under XP. Everything seems to
work, including the full-screen VGA graphics stuff. BUT...

I can't find any way to screen capture a VGA graphics screen to the
clipboard. The usual prntscrn or alt/ditto have no effect on a VGA
screen in graphics mode, and none of the properties/hotkey settings
seem to make any difference. Anybody know anything about this?

I see that there are some add-on utilities that claim to be able to
capture an XP screen in any mode, Snagit and such, so I may have to
install one of these I guess.

Funny, when I look up the internal (not online) Windows Help on this
subject, the text refers to Windows 2000. They can't even get the name
of the OS right. At least now you can drag an EXE file from a floppy
and it doesn't create a shortcut instead.

John
I'm pretty sure Snagit from Techsmith can do it.
http://www.techsmith.com/
 
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Charles W. Johson Jr.

Jan 1, 1970
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John Larkin said:
Hi, I'm still running '98 but will soon get new computers and I
suppose they'll come with XP. So I was experimenting with my wife's
new Dell machine with XP.

I have a lot of programs I wrote in the DOS version of PowerBasic, and
I've been checking to see if they're OK under XP. Everything seems to
work, including the full-screen VGA graphics stuff. BUT...

I can't find any way to screen capture a VGA graphics screen to the
clipboard. The usual prntscrn or alt/ditto have no effect on a VGA
screen in graphics mode, and none of the properties/hotkey settings
seem to make any difference. Anybody know anything about this?

I see that there are some add-on utilities that claim to be able to
capture an XP screen in any mode, Snagit and such, so I may have to
install one of these I guess.

Funny, when I look up the internal (not online) Windows Help on this
subject, the text refers to Windows 2000. They can't even get the name
of the OS right. At least now you can drag an EXE file from a floppy
and it doesn't create a shortcut instead.

John

If you hit ctrl + print screen you get the whole screen, alt+print screen
gives you only the active window.


Charles
 
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Spehro Pefhany

Jan 1, 1970
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Hi, I'm still running '98 but will soon get new computers and I
suppose they'll come with XP. So I was experimenting with my wife's
new Dell machine with XP.

I have a lot of programs I wrote in the DOS version of PowerBasic, and
I've been checking to see if they're OK under XP. Everything seems to
work, including the full-screen VGA graphics stuff. BUT...

I can't find any way to screen capture a VGA graphics screen to the
clipboard. The usual prntscrn or alt/ditto have no effect on a VGA
screen in graphics mode, and none of the properties/hotkey settings
seem to make any difference. Anybody know anything about this?

I see that there are some add-on utilities that claim to be able to
capture an XP screen in any mode, Snagit and such, so I may have to
install one of these I guess.

Funny, when I look up the internal (not online) Windows Help on this
subject, the text refers to Windows 2000. They can't even get the name
of the OS right. At least now you can drag an EXE file from a floppy
and it doesn't create a shortcut instead.

John

You can do that with Win2K too, but by default it copies files from
removable or network drives rather than moving them.

You can override the default behavior and make it create a shortcut or
move (or to get it to copy if it was going to move) the file by
holding Shift, Alt or Ctrl when dragging the file. The icon changes to
tell you what it's about to do. Very nice and intuitive if you ask me.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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If you hit ctrl + print screen you get the whole screen, alt+print screen
gives you only the active window.


Charles

But it doesn't do anything with a full-screen VGA display. '98 works
fine.

John
 
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Joel Kolstad

Jan 1, 1970
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Spehro Pefhany said:
You can override the default behavior and make it create a shortcut or
move (or to get it to copy if it was going to move) the file by
holding Shift, Alt or Ctrl when dragging the file. The icon changes to
tell you what it's about to do. Very nice and intuitive if you ask me.

If you drag with the right mouse button, upon release you'll get a pop-up
menu that gives the various 'move,' 'copy,' 'create shortcut' menu, etc.
This is handy if you can't quite remember what the default action is and
what the Shift/Alt/Ctrl modifiers do!

I hadn't noticed the icon changing as Spehro points out, though -- that is a
nice touch.

---Joel Kolstad
 
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SioL

Jan 1, 1970
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John Larkin said:
But it doesn't do anything with a full-screen VGA display. '98 works
fine.

John

I think I know what's the problem here, full-screen mode in a DOS window?
Some programs won't work unless they're in a full screen mode.

I've got a couple old DOS programs myself and they won't work under XP
at all, so I installed VMWARE. This program lets you setup virtual computers
under windows XP (or even linux). It basically emulates a PC with bios
and everything so you install the operating system as you would otherwise
and you can run linux, dos, win98, os2, nt, w2k or winxp in a window or full
screen mode under your main WindowsXP system.

How's this usefull here? Well, you can place DOS session in this virtual PC into
a full-screen mode and still have Virtual PC in a window (not full screen) and you
can capture screen there from the main windowsXP the usual way.

Sounds a bit complicated.

Anyway, vmware works a treat for programs which won't run under xp.
Also great for testing stuff out in different op. systems with just one PC.
Also makes it possible to run Winxp under linux so transition to linux
is smoother.

But my Superpro LX programator still won't work with my new A64 3500+ system,
not even in a virtual win98 window. I guess timings were done with simple loops,
making the program obsolete with latest processors.

S
 
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Tom Del Rosso

Jan 1, 1970
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Spehro Pefhany said:
You can do that with Win2K too, but by default it copies files from
removable or network drives rather than moving them.

You can override the default behavior and make it create a shortcut or
move (or to get it to copy if it was going to move) the file by
holding Shift, Alt or Ctrl when dragging the file. The icon changes to
tell you what it's about to do. Very nice and intuitive if you ask me.

OS/2 had the same feature in version 3, Spring 1993. It took MS only
slightly more than 7 years to match its functionality and reliability, and
with only 16 times the RAM and 16 times the disk requirements.
 
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SioL

Jan 1, 1970
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Tom Del Rosso said:
OS/2 had the same feature in version 3, Spring 1993. It took MS only
slightly more than 7 years to match its functionality and reliability, and
with only 16 times the RAM and 16 times the disk requirements.

I still keep the Merlin installation cd, those were the days.
It'd probably not install anymore now, increasing disk capacities
required patches every 6-12 months or so. Not to mention
chipsets. Sad. It was a great system.

S
 
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Boris Mohar

Jan 1, 1970
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I can't find any way to screen capture a VGA graphics screen to the
clipboard. The usual prntscrn or alt/ditto have no effect on a VGA

This may be somewhat OT. I am using Clipmate from http://www.thornsoft.com/
It is a stacking clipboard where all the clips are saved in I into order you
created them. Has its own folders, network capability with sharing.
Something that windows should had from day one. I couldn't work without it.
 

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