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Post by uncletone on Nov 15, 2014 14:40:00 GMT
I am genuinely surprised that Windows does not have a simple way of picking an area of the screen. On the Mac, command-shift-4 and drag-select the area you want:  |
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Post by bracknellboy on Nov 15, 2014 15:23:56 GMT
It does, or mine does....Accessories, Snipping Tool.
I don't know how you would then get the image into here though.. Edit: Oh yes I do.....But the quality is a bit ...
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Post by uncletone on Nov 15, 2014 15:36:25 GMT
Looks fine if you click on it. I alluded to the snipping tool (I found it via Google) previously, but nobody bit...  |
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Post by longjohn on Nov 15, 2014 19:37:49 GMT
Yep, Windoze leaves the screenshot (or partial, you can screenshot a single window too) sat in clipboard, looking like *god knows what* until you paste it into someplace. Not a problem, if I want to post it I generally want to trim a bit anyway, so you don't get to see all the mess I typically have all around the actual working area of the screen (and while, as I said, you can screenshot just one window, I can never remember if its ctrl-prtscreen, or shift-prtscreen, or alt-prtscreen, or something else-prtscreen which does that, and you can't tell until you paste it whether you guessed the right one .. so I capture the whole thing and then trim). Nice work by Ton thought, unravelling the mysteries of the BB, maybe I'll try that next time (although I guess there may be a limit on the size there too? I mean 100% is all very well, until someone comes along with a 4k pixel-wide screen capture.) Alt + Printscreen captures the active window. Can't do a 4K screen yet. Quite happy with a 27in screen at 2560 x 1440px though.  Click for full size. Firefox is running at twice native size or it'll just be a tiny unreadable box in the corner. John
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Nov 15, 2014 22:25:28 GMT
Yep, first you buy a high res screen, then you go set everything to huge text, large icons, etc. On the upside, it makes games and photos look wonderful, if a bit slow. I think I fancy two medium res screens side by side for most things, given a bigger desk and a longer neck.
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Post by uncletone on Nov 15, 2014 23:08:21 GMT
... until someone comes along with a 4k pixel-wide screen capture. Your wish is my command (couldn't give you much height because of the size limit, so just a strip across two screens. 4224 pixels near enough?): 
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Post by longjohn on Nov 15, 2014 23:50:54 GMT
Yep, first you buy a high res screen, then you go set everything to huge text, large icons, etc. On the upside, it makes games and photos look wonderful, if a bit slow. I think I fancy two medium res screens side by side for most things, given a bigger desk and a longer neck. I used to run twin 19in screens which was a bit unwieldy with Visual Studio. Not enough room on either but always seemed to have too much wasted screenspace as well. With a large single screen I can have the code window on the left, the design window in the middle and a running example FF or IE on the right. You can check what you have designed against what is rendered in IE and FF at the same time. Also working on photos at their full resolution is so much better. For normal browsing and email though I set it to 2x size and sit back. It's not slow either. I'm not running a fancy graphics card just a cheap nvidia GTX and it's fine. It uses less power than twin screens and there's only one set of wires to connect too. (I feel like a salesman now). John
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Post by wildlife2 on Nov 21, 2014 1:37:20 GMT
 How do I upload a mouse? 
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