Screenshot Prog

Does anyone of you guys know a simple program, which acts like:
1. hit specific key to take a screenshot
2. auto-save file to a user-defined location

Another thing, which is not necessary but would be cool, is to be able to choose the file format.

Thanks in advance, Ricochet

why not just use the print screen key & an image editor?

hmm. What if i want to do multiple screenshots at one time?
Not possible with this solution. And btw I'm doing so at the moment.

I know what you are on about and I used to have a DOS utility for just that job... but I can't remember what the stoopid thing was called... I'll look it up and post back. It was quite a neat little tool

christo

Yeah! I'm looking forward to your post (though i can't imaginea program like this on dos)

At uni I did a lot of robotics with 486's and ran all my applications in dos - written in C, with real-time control of parallel IO devices and RS232 ports. All the feedback I used to plot on a DOS screen - they were real time plots of transducer displacements, or spectral (fourier) analyses.. so I had to take instantaneous dumps of the screen for my reports. The tool created big bitmap (bmp) images, which I then sucked off and converted to jpg on a different machine.. It was kewl. Now, I am assuming that you could still run the executable in a dos console.. and dump windows screens instead.. who knows? Maybe the project is still supported, in which case you might find something else on the web....

anyway, I have to bail from Linux and re-boot into Windows to find some old reports which hopefully refer to this tool I was using...but I can't do that right now, cos I have a big ftp transfer going and a kernel compiling too.. so it's gonna have to wait till tomorrow. Sorry dude )

of course if you were using Linux, you would probably have xv shipped with your distro.. nuff said ;o)

christo

Try SnagIT -> http://www.techsmith.com/
Used to be a small, excellent program that fitted on a floppy. It's a lot bigger now, but still does the job...

//NoXcuz

huh ... this dos thing sound kinda cool to me ...
until you reboot i'll use snagit, though i can't understand how such a prog can be commercial.

Anyway thanks for your replies!
It's always like this: Do some hours of search on the web -> find nothing
Ask on Devshed -> Get the information you want modified to suit your needs

Thanks for being such a great community!!! (Oh oh i should go to bed right now )

Mr. Snappy very good program, great you could say.

sorry about the delay - I poisoned myself today with a sandwich, and have been dysfunctional for the last 7 hours.

Anway.. the utility was called Doscap

If you are happy to download just 38.1k, I'll send over the .exe I also notice that it produces .pcx files - still just as easy to convert

mail me if you want a copy of this tool

christo :o)

just to let y'all know,

Running doscap: Just type doscap to load it into memory. Then to capture any (DOS) screen, just hit alt+. That will create a pcx file.

so there it is.. and pix files are sequentially numbered, so you can keep on hitting alt + '.' to ren as many dumps as you want... Here's a link for download - it's really very lightweight:

http://snow.ag.uidaho.edu/Useful_pr..._DOS/DOSCAP.EXE

christo

Found a full copy of everything for DOSCAP here:

http://www.filelibrary.com/Contents/DOS/53/3.html

Includes a windows version. Can save in bmp, pcx, tga, and tiff.

---John Holmes...

Sweet,

good hunting, J !!

Christo