On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 11:20:08 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>Agreed all around. I suspect the Windows screen capture is not visible to or
>modifiable by the application.
>
IIRC, I based my erroneous opinion on:
https://www.tombrennansoftware.com/screens.html
https://www.tombrennansoftware.com/edit.html
That's only an image -- I hate those!
>Yeah, a "grab all" would be nice. For doc purposes, I wish Tom could do an RTF
>format copy that would preserve text colors, but they are easy enough to "fake
>back" while doing the doc. Vista has a "save screen to disk" function but I
>have never used it.
>
x3270 offers a choice of:
o Bitmap (which is embedded in PostScript!)
o Text
o HTML (which preserves colors in searchable text)
o Rich Text
>Yeah, I hate "graphical" screen shots in problem tickets, but what are you
>going to do? The customer is always right, right? It's often hard enough to
>get anything out of them:
>
>Customer: it blew up.
>Us: what was the error message?
>Customer: I don't know, something about an error occurred.
>Us: Please send us the listing.
>Customer: Oh, we already purged the output. When are you going to have a fix
>for us?
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Grant Taylor
>Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2021 10:52 AM
>> But too many users reach by reflex for the Windows screen snapshot
>> shortcut.
> ...
>Props if the terminal can take a screen capture which is tantamount to
>do an entire screen copy for you to paste as text elsewhere.
>
"Props"? "Perhaps"?
-- gil
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