Direct Scan Image Capture

[Dean]

I have done it before, but now I can't, so I need a reminder. How do you capture a screen shot image during redisplay for pasting into another program (paint, email, whatever)? I have tried:

Print Screen
Ctrl/Print Screen
Ctrl/Alt/Print Screen
Ctrl/Alt/Shift/Print Screen
Ctrl/Shift/Print Screen
Alt/Print Screen
Alt/Shift/Print Screen
Shift/Print Screen

TIA

 

[TurboDave]

Print Screen captures everything on the screen at the time.
Alt Print Screen captures only the active window.

 

[Dean]

Thanks Dave, but it doesn't work for me. I can copy the data, but not the image for some reason.

I wonder if it has something to do with how DS is displayed on my computer. When I open the DOS command window it is a "normal" window, but when I launch DS it is no longer a window, but the entire screen with no way to minimize or swap windows. As I recall there was a time when it was a normal window when launched, but it was rather small and not enlargeable. (I believe I am remembering correctly, but who knows, with age comes... what the heck is that saying?? )

I have no idea what I did, but I want to go back to normal. I looked at the DOS launch properties which shows to run as a normal window, and there is nothing in DS. It must be somewhere.


Dean

 

[ijames]

If you launch ds from a desktop icon, right click on it and select properties. If you launch some other way, go there and right click and select properties. One of the tabs at the top should be something like screen or window properties, select it, and you should have buttons you click to select window or full screen. Yours should say full screen; select window instead to get it back to the way you remember. There may be an option for number of lines in the window, or some other way to control the initial size.

 

[Dean]

Thanks, Carl.

The properties on the desktop icon are correct (Options - Display Options - Window; also Shortcut - Run - Normal Window), and when I open it, it is a window, but it is when I launch DS from the c: in the window it then goes full screen.

If I am drafting an email and referring to the DS file, I have to open DS, note the data, close DS, work on the email. Then if there is something else I want to look at, I have to do it again... and again. Friggin irritating.

Dean

 

[Dean]

Found it:

In Windows, how do I switch the MS-DOS command prompt between windowed and full-screen mode?

If the MS-DOS prompt (also known as the command prompt) takes up all of your screen in Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, or XP, press Alt-Enter to switch from full-screen mode to windowed mode. The screen may flicker when you switch modes, but this is normal.

If you like having the command prompt displayed full-screen, press Alt-Tab to move between open windows.


Dean