Re: NewEra Screen Shots?

For manuals and other needs we simply hit Alt-PrintScrn. The currently active window is saved to the clipboard as a bitmap. (PrintScrn alone will save the whole screen.) Now start any application where you can past in a bitmap (such as MS Word). You can now print it, or use it in your manuals directly. There is no more direct way of sending the content to the printer. There is a program called CLIPBRD.EXE (on Windows NT - it may have another name on other versions) where you can view the content of the clipboard, save it to a file and do some other more or less usefull stuff. All this assumes you are on some MS Windows platform. If you should be on Motif there ought to be a similar key. If not you could run an X-Windows emulator on a PC and use the above functionallity. billy@west.co.za (Billy Wheeler) wrote: :> Does anyone know of a quick and easy way to have the user click a button :> in a NewEra application causing a dump of the current NewEra screen to sent :> to the default printer? Not just the contents of the fields etc. but the raw :> bitmap picture. :> :> Is there some functionality built into NewEra that I can't find that will :> allow me to do this? :I'm not aware of any such functionality. When we needed to do manuals a while :back, we tried out various utilities. There are hundreds of shareware screen :capture utilities (and obviously commercial ones, too!). :There are some graphics class libraries which might have this functionality, :or if you have the inclination the MSVC4.1 is supposed to have something useful :in its MFC (assuming you're running 32-bit Windoze). <erk> :If you *do* come across something, let me know...thanks! :Good luck! :-- :Ciao, :Billy :+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ :| Billy Wheeler Junior Programmer / Director The West Solutions Group | :+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ :| The Informix FAQ is at: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html | :+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ :| .... oh, and Kerry, I see it's _still_ not at rtfm.mit.edu... :-) | :+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org