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Maybe a few words about how shot works...

Click the Print Screen key and dialog will pop up asking you for full screen shot or just a window only...

If you select Full screen a snapshot of the screen will be saved to your /my-documents folder with file name as a time stamp(jpg format).

If you select Window only, you just click on the window you want a snapshot of and again it will be saved as per full screen.

Hope that explains it...

Let me know if you want the facility to change image format or any other suggestions.

gposil, thanks for the excellent screen capture utility

I am using it on turbopup alpa3 with success today

a query, no options dialogue box appears when you press the printscreen button

what you get is a a small message box saying screen shot done

regards

ps, i also noticed graphic menu with turbo pup has an entry called mtpaint snapshot-screen capture

are you using version 0.1.1 or 0.1.2...

Thanks for the quick response, yes i was using version 0.1.1

deleted this version, rebooted turbopup, installed 0.1.2 unfortunatly still exactly the same behavour

not a show stopper, i will try it in a couple of other puppys i have and see what happens, will report back in a couple of days

Regards

You ca always make a desktop shortcut to it...in rox go to/usr/bin and drag shot1 to the desktop...

Hi gposil, reporting back as promised a bit slow but i had to wait for the powerlines to thaw out before i could start today

dragging shot-0.1 to the desktop in turbopup enables the window/screen capture option and both work from this icon instead of the printscreen keyboard button

also confirm shot-0.1.2 works as designed in ttuuxxx 4.2v2 puppy from the printscreen keyboard button

thanks for your help

Getting a screenshot is *so* easy using mtpaint.

At the command prompt I type

sleep 5s ; mtpaint -s

The 5 seconds I use to focus to the window I am interested in

thx for this

gposil wrote:Let me know if you want the facility to change image format or any other suggestions.

just wondering if you could add a third option, something like 'select area to capture' which allows you to capture an arbitrary rectangle on the screen by click-n-dragging

also, if you're looking for enhancement ideas, there's an excellent freeware app called mwsnap (http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html) - but notice the win in the winfreeware directory - that comes in at around 640ks. poke around there for an idea or two