Screen Capture of Classic Window

I wish to capture the contents of a Classic application's window. None of the OS X keyboard shortcuts seem to work with the Classic window. If I capture only the window (Command-Shift-4), the result is a blank file. If I capture the entire screen (Command-Shift-3), and so on, the result is the OS X screen minus the Classic window.
Is there any way to capture a picture of the Classic window in OS 10.4?

Hmmm, I only found one real reference to a Black Screen capture...
http://www.uselesscreations.com/mac/puddle/
Leopard (OS X 10.5) and some older versions will give the screensaver a black screen to capture when the screensaver password option is turned on. The screensaver now attempts to detect this and display your wallpaper image instead, so that you don't just get the black screen OS X is trying to display!
And though it's not what we're talking about. it leads ne yo ask a few questions...
Is this from an Admin account?
Do you have Multiple Users in OS9?
How many colors is OSX.s display set to?
How many colors is OS9.s display set to?
How much Video RAM on ones that work, and ones that don't?
Tried capturing in Classic with Extensions OFF?

Similar Messages

Screen capture of active window in LabWindows at run time

Hi NI,
We at KPIT are building an application which gathers data from an ECU over RS-232. We have completed our UIR file and tested basic send recieve. We would like to automate the test report generation. For this, we need to capture the GUI window (containing graphs, text boxes etc.) after the end of the test. Currently we are doing this manually using the standard Alt+PrintScreen fucntionality provided by Windows. Is there a way in LabWindows to capture the GUI form/screen/tab automatically through an API call ?
Regards,
-Ashish

Hi it's not that elegant but you can usethe following code i wrote:
it uses ClearClipboard software and it's basicly an automated printscreen
int BmpID,Available=0,Width,Height,RowB,PixDepth,Error,Status;
int *ColorTable=NULL;
unsigned char *Bits=NULL; unsigned char *Mask=NULL;
LaunchExecutable ("c:\\Program Files\\ClearClipboard\\ClearClipboard.exe");
Delay(1);
keybd_event(VK_SNAPSHOT,0xd4, 0, 0);
keybd_event(VK_SNAPSHOT,0xd4, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0);
ProcessSystemEvents();
ClipboardGetBitmap (&BmpID, &Available);
AllocBitmapData (BmpID, &ColorTable, &Bits, &Mask);
GetBitmapData (BmpID, &RowB, &PixDepth, &Width, &Height,ColorTable, Bits, Mask);
SaveBitmapToJPEGFile (BmpID, strFull, 0, 100);
DiscardBitmap(BmpID);
free(Bits);
free(Mask);
free(ColorTable);
Hope it helps....
Kobi Kalif
Software Engineer

Permission to post screen capture of beta windows

Hello!
can i post screen captures of the CS6 beta to the NAPP or Photoshop User media?
for additional information, please see my recent CS6 forum post 'enhanced photo cropping'.
best regards, Ron Stone

Hi JAR2010
Assuming we are talking about the same thing
, the blue lines aren't visible to your end user.
They are there for you as the Captivate developer so that you know
the path the mouse will travel. If you choose not to have mouse
movement, they aren't visible to you as the developer either. So
your worries are quite probably unfounded.
Not following you on downloading the slides as JPEGs. Do you
mean by your end user? Or are you possibly asking if you can obtain
the screen captures as individual images from Captivate to use
elsewhere? If you mean by the end user, I'm going to say it's
probably not possible. But if you mean by Captivate, you should be
able to look in the Library panel and export them from there.
Either individually or as a group.
Cheers... Rick

Is there a pref to turn off border/shadow in window screen capture?

Somewhere along the line, Apple changed screen capture of a window (cmd-shift-4 and then spacebar) so that now you get a white border and drop shadow around the window in the screen capture file. This is very pretty, but for the purposes of posting captures on websites, for example, the original 'just the window' capture is really much more useful. Is there a *defaults write com.apple.screencapture* (or something) preference that can be changed to set the border/shadow to off?
- padmavyuha

Yes, annoying isn't it? I got mine changed using this command in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true
You then need to log out and back in. This fix is courtesy of "atverd" at MacOSXHints. Bless him, and Rob Griffiths.
Francine
Francine
Schwieder

Mavericks Screen Capture causes spinning beach ball

Trained by experience never to install a brand new operating system on top of a perfectly functioning one (unless I want to risk many wasting times and losing productivity), to test out the new Mac OS, I installed Mavericks on an external FireWire drive by upgrading a fresh install of Snow Leopard, updated to its maximum version. Nothing else was on the volume, for I had used Disk Utility to securely erase and content and overwrite the volume with zeros.
Immediately after the Mavericks, I looked at the System Profile, taking some screen captures of selected windows. While Mavericks successfully captured the screens, it failed to display them when I selected one and hit the space bar. Instead, mavericks presented a perpetually spinning beach ball that prevented me from doing anything else on the Mac. I was forced to shut down.
Upon restart back into Mavericks, I encountered the same problem. I had to force power off again.
After rebooting into Mountain Lion on my internal hard drive, I ran a complete series of hard drive maintenance utilities involving all the tools I have, including Disk Utility, Drive Genius, Disk Warrior, and Tech Tool Pro. All ran successfully and reported no problems. I then capped things by running iDefrag to eliminate file fragmentation and to optimize the volume. With several hours of labor invested in preparing the external hard disk, downloading Mavericks' installer, running the Mavericks installer, performing all the pertinent maintenance routines I could think of, and finally optimizing the volume, which has no other software on it besides the new Apple operating system, I restarted the Mavericks volume. I then took a fresh screen capture, selected it, pressed the space bar, and I still got that infernal spinning beach ball.
I let it run for at least half an hour as I returned to watching a football game, hoping things would finally get cleared up. They did not. The ball still spun. I could not even get to the Finder to peek into the Force Quit command under the Apple icon. So, as originally condemned, I was compelled to hold down the power button to regain control of my computer, which this new, appropriately named operating system had wrested from me.
Anyone having a similar problem? Anyone aware of a sure-fire solution, other than to avoid relying on this new operating system, which must be my policy until such glitches get fixed?
At least you know now why I consider it unwise to install a brand new OS atop of one that has served you well.

OK, it’s Wednesday now, late afternoon, following a long yesterday, spent exclusively on getting Mavericks installed, a day which continued well into night, approaching the sun rise, until I collapsed. No one can tell me that the Mavericks installation is without errors! Your mileage may differ, if you’re lucky. But if you had to go through what I just did, you’ll long for the days of System 7, when all you had to do was shove a half-dozen floppy disks into a floppy drive to get your Mac up and running without such angst.
SHORT ANSWER:
After many twists and turns that Apple should have foreseen and not inflicted upon customers, I finally managed to get Mavericks installed on my external Firewire hard drive.
I did follow your lead, Baltwo, that the nature of the problem might lay in corrupt preferences files on the primary Account, but, as I attempted a couple of days, I modified your suggestion that I cherry-pick which plist files might be good vs. which might be corrupt, by deleting the whole **** account. A couple of days ago, my intuition told me that doing that was the wiser way to proceed; today I felt compelled to do exactly that, because I had no other choice.
The reasons I had to do that is elaborated upon below.
LONGER EXPLANATION and DETAILS:
As I explained in the message I composed on Tuesday morning, I felt so insecure that I did not obtain a well-functioning operating system that I had decided to start the installation all over from scratch.
It took all day Monday to again use Disk Utility to securely erase the volume and prepare it for the new installation. When I tried to short-cut the process by doing a Quick Erase, the volume refused to accept the installation of Snow Leopard 10.6.3 from the DVD. On top of that, I again encountered difficulties in installing Snow Leopard from the DVD, because the installer just could not close the deal. The gauge runs up to the 99% mark, and it hangs there saying that it is “Moving items into place.” Sure, it is!
I’m a patient guy, so I let the installer do its thing for about four hours while I watched the World Series game. (Yeah, Red Sox!) But by the time the game was over, so was my patience. I had to Force Power Off the Mac and restart it.
Since I have no confidence in an operating system whose installer failed to do its job properly, I felt that I had to do more. Before I did that, though, I did a Google search to find out if my experience was unique. It is not! The forums are full of people who have complained about this very same hanging problem ever since the Snow Leopard DVD was released. Great, I thought. Now what do I do?
I decided to the Apple support site and download the 1.x GB combo updater to Snow Leopard 10.6.8 in the hopes that the upgrade process would cure whatever issues cropped up during the incomplete installation by the DVD. After downloading that combo disk image, installing 10.6.8, restarting the Mac under 10.6.8, and getting all the software updates applicable to that version, a few tests, supplemented by a running a whole barrage of maintenance utilizes to fix permissions, repair the disk, rebuilt the directory, seemed to indicate that I did finally achieve a solid installation of Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and all its trimming.
To save myself any future agony of having to go through this kind of winding road installation again, I used SuperDuper to create a disk image of the entire volume. That disk image is stored on another Firewire volume, ready to burned at some future date onto a BluRay disc for safe-keeping and backup.
With Snow Leopard safely installed on the volume and sporting one user Account, I was ready to use the Mavericks installer package that I had downloaded last Saturday, when I first began this process, to upgrade to Apple’s latest and greatest OS. Unfortunately, the installation process failed in the same way that the Snow Leopard installer failed. The installer just could not get over the hump of closing the deal. Once I got the installer started, I went to bed.
Four hours later, the installer still had not completed its job, again getting to the 99% mark, and just hanging there. Again, I had to Power Off the Mac. Upon restarting with the Option held down, I elected to start up using the built-in Recovery feature.
That seemed to work, but only sort of. I was able to get a Mavericks desktop, but the User account had absolutely no privileges to do a **** thing. It could not open its own Home folder to see what was in it. It could not complete the screen capture process, because I had no permission to save the picture anywhere, like on the Desktop.
In System Preferences, I tried to increase the size of the cursor, but that failed. In Finder preferences, I tried to make the hard drives show up on the desktop, but that failed, too. I ran permissions in Disk Utility; that did no good. Nothing worked! I could not even change anything related to my User account, because I had no permission to do so. Imagine that: my only account was an Administer account to which I had no access. I would not have thought such a thing could be possible.
I was caught in a loop, stranded on a Mobius Strip, walking on the wild side, surfing the waves of a brand new operating system corrupted by its own installation process.
Not a good thing at all.
Since the first installment had also resulted in a bizarre set of user accounts ending up with QuickLooks being declared the winner of a new account the system decided to create for me, I think it is reasonably safe to conclude that there is some kind of a bug, or flaw, in the Apple upgrade / installation procedure that needs some attention by Apple system engineers. None of this kind of stuff I have delineated at some length should be happening to anyone who owns a Mac.
And, Baltwo, even though I had kept uppermost in my mind your suggestion about creating a new account merely to ferret out which preference files might be corrupt and which might be OK, I decided that I did not want to take any chances at all with this extremely messed User account, which had worked fine in Snow Leopard, but had somehow got corrupted during the upgrade. So, as before, I decided to (1) create a brand new Administrator account; (2) log out from the useless User account in which I had no privileges whatsoever; (3) log in with the brand new Adminstrator; and (4) delete that useless User account entirely, completely, and forever.
At first, I was a little hesitant about deleting the first Administrator account that existed in my Users and Groups pane. I did not even know if such a thing could be done. So, I referred to my David Pogue reference books, and I did a Google search for “Delete Home User Mac” to see what others knew about this. Everyone described the standard way to delete an account; no one even mentioned any prohibition about deleting the original User account. So, I went ahead and deleted it, without encountering the slightest problem in doing so. I even followed up with before and after Terminal commands to see if that useless User account was truly gone, and it definitely went poof. Since I lacked permissions to create any documents at all within that former Home folder, getting rid of it was easy. I think that the System was just as glad to trash it as I was.
Hopefully, whatever corruption occurred during the Mavericks installation and upgrade process was restricted to the preference files associated with that messed-up, original Administrator account so that I can begin exploring Mavericks with a perfectly pristine operating system. Before I start tweaking it or adding stuff to it, my next step will be to use SuperDuper to create a disk image of the entire volume, so that, in the future, I will have a clean set of system of file to install on this external Firewire volume, or on any other internal hard drive I choose to install Mavericks later on. A Bluray disc will contain that disc image for safekeeping when it’s time to remove it from the destination volume where it gets created.
As to the tardiness of my reply, it is caused by the exorbitant amount of time—four days!—it took me to trek along this twisting, winding path of installing Mavericks, as well as a glitch in the mismatch of similarly looking User Names associated with similarly looking Apple ID accounts and similarly looking User Names associated with nearly identical Email Addresses that do not convert from one to the other, as, for example, mac.com does to me.com.
As I learned from Apple Staff who responded to my report that I was being locked out of the Apple Discussions community, there are four pieces of information that must match up for each Apple ID account, and my data had slipped out of sync. Now I know why, during Apple’s changeover in the formatting of the Apple Discussions section, I lost all those “points” I had accumulated in helping others, not that I track such things, and I could not find where my previous discussions were.
That’s also why I may be able to award anyone points for helping me in this thread, but I’m dialing in under the “other” Apple ID, not the one I used to create this topic. Close readers will observe the slight difference.
Thanks a lot, Baltwo. You get the credit for pointing me in the right direction.

Screen capture not working right in 10.6.2

Since installing 10.6.2, screen capture of a window puts a black border around the captured window instead of the shadow. Any idea's why?

there have been many posts about this. could be a bug.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10559347&#10559347
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10217973&#10217973
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10553006&#10553006
you can try a few things suggested in those threads. first, go to the directory homefodler/library/preferences and delete the files com.apple.systemuiserver and com.apple.screencapture.plist. (the second file may not exists) and run the following terminal command
killall SystemUIServer
try taking a screencapture again. if that does not help install Onyx
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/onyx.html
and use the parameters tab to either turn off the shadow in screenshots or change the image format used for screencaptures to png.

Screen capture tablet hp stream 8

how do i do a screen capture? vol- & windows ket does not work

Hey @Faengelm ,
Welcome to the HP Forums!
I understand you're looking for information on taking screenshots with the Stream 8 tablet.
The shortcut you listed for Windows tablets does not work on the Stream 8. To take screenshots of desktop apps you will need to use the Snipping Tool. You can find this by searching Snipping Tool in the start screen.
If you want to share a screenshot of an app you can use the screenshot feature by swiping in from the right, selecting Share, and changing the dropdown at the top right corner to Screenshot and then selecting how to share the screenshot. Choices here are limited, and personally I use Mail to share a .png image by sending it to myself so that I can do what I need with the screenshot.
Hopefully that helps.
Please click the "Kudos, Thumbs Up" at the bottom of this post if you want to say "Thanks" for helping!
Please click "Accept as Solution" if you feel my post solved your issue, it will help others find the solution.
The Great Deku Tree
I work on behalf of HP.

How to screen capture on asha 311

I've seen forumers with screen captures of some windows on asha 311.
how did they do it ?
or is it possible to screen capture on asha 311?
Nokia Lover since childhood.
my phones are 3120c, 303, and 311.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

One "workaround" way would be to e.g. to go to RDA and use one of those devices to grab the screenshots. Depends on what do you need the screenshots for.
http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/nokia-x-updates/
http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/nokia-x2-update/
http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/asha-software-update/
http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/support/software-update/wp8-software-update/
http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/Nokia_firmware_change_logs
https://twitter.com/LumiaSWUpdates

How do I get a screen capture in Windows on MacBook?

I'm a new guy to Mac/Mountain Lion, but not to computers, so this question may be a bit dicey.
I have used Gadwin PrintScreen for years on Microsoft Machines. During Setup, I am allowed to use Ctrl+Printscreen but now I am using, only occasionally, Windows 7 x64 on a partition on my MacBook Pro/Retina. Considering that there is no Printscreen key on the keyboard, I can no longer use the configuration I am accustomed to in the Windows environment on my lovely, shiny Mac. Only combinations ofCtrl/Alt and F keys are allowed. I get "Can't use that key. Already assigned to, etc."
So then, my query is this, on the Windows side, what keyboard combo will allow me to get a full screen capture? I've tried everything and combed the Apple community to no avail. If there is no keyboard combination, what app can I use that will allow me to do so in a Windows environment on a MacBook Pro/Retina. Just a month old.
I know how to execute this on the Mountain Lion side, but that key combination doesn't cut it on the Windows side.
In closing, I hope the solution is an app download to allow me to choose a configuration.
Thanks for reading,
Kelly J.

Start > All Programs > Accesories > Snipping Tool > New > Full Screen Snip
Sorry I don't know of any key combinations that will do the same thing.

Can't screen capture popup windows in Flex web-based application

Hi all,
I'm a tech writer looking for a tool that will capture single popup windows of a flex-based web application (perl popups have the same issue).
Snagit (and all the freeware I've tried), doesn't recognize the popup window as a selectable element, even though the mouse can move the popup window anywhere in the application window.
We've got lots of snapshots to take, and do not want to have to crop a region and edit out the white space (top of the popup box has square corners, bottoms are rounded).
Does anyone know of a screen capture utility or way to get these windows in a single click like we can with the standard old window dialog boxes?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thank you!
joan

Hi Alex,
I don't quite understand.
Are you suggesting a way to get the snapshots from the server generating the image and not as an end user who opens the application and trys snapping from the Internet Explorer browser window?
I'll need to be more specific when communicating with the developer. Can you provide a little more direction?
Thank you!
:-) joan

Don't try to do screen capture in Time Machine window...

Was going to show off Time Machine to my brother by taking screen capture.
Brought up Time Machine, pressed standard "Command-Shift-Number 4" key combo. Ouch... Time Machine screen became 'frozen in time'. Many key presses and 'strong words' later it woke up and came back.

Correct. I was in habit of using Command-Shift-4 + mouse drag for a region, or same key combo and then spacebar on a window for just a window for doing screen captures.
Command-Shift-3 worked fine with no lockup for whole window. People will still need to be careful not to attempt Command-Shift-4 and then spacebar or select area with the mouse as it appears to lock up the Mac and no key combos work.

Screen Capture won't capture window

Hello, I'm using Snow Leopard on a Mac Mini with a single monitor. When using the screen capture keyboard commands, I can do everything except for capturing a window. I'm supposed to be able to hit command+shift+4, and then spacebar, and the pointer will change into a camera that will capture only the window I click with it. I recall being able to do this a long time ago, before I upgraded to Snow Leopard. I also use a widget called Screenshot Plus that acts as a front-end to those keyboard functions.
When I try these days, the cursor changes into a camera, but the entire screen is highlighted as if it will be selected. When I click, what gets captured is a blank white area the full size of my screen. The Screenshot Pro widget produces the same incorrect result.
I've seen another discussion about this topic, but it seemed to center on the Grab utility. On my system, Grab works correctly, including the window capture function. So I have a way to get the results I want, but I would be interested in a solution that allows me to use the keyboard method again. Thank you.
Mike

Noondaywitch, I created a test account and screen capture of windows worked correctly in it. Thank you!
So now I need to look for something about my account. I'm going to try disabling all startup items and see what happens.
UPDATE: Disabling all startup items and rebooting fixed the problem. The window capture function now works in my user account. Now I can put startup items back one by one to see which one might have caused the issue.
Thanks to all who gave advice.

Screen capture in windows

I recently installed windows 7 on my imac because i wanted to make gameplay videos, but i can't screen caputre the games, everytime im playing a game and i try to screen capture it just comes up blank, please help!!!

Start > All Programs > Accesories > Snipping Tool > New > Full Screen Snip
Sorry I don't know of any key combinations that will do the same thing.

Problem Recording - screen capture isn't capturing correct window

Hi,
I'm working in Captivatre 7 on a Mac, and I'm trying to add a recording slide to do a tutorial in Photoshop. When I do the screen capture, and then finish, it takes me back to Captivate, and all the slides have the background of my captivate template instead of the Photoshop window. This hasn't happened to me before, and all the settings look the same - I've used screen capture in Captivate 5 & 6, but not 7 yet. When I went to try the screen capture in Captivate 6 also, it's doing the same thing. Some of the motions (but not all) are being captured correctly - the text captions are referencing the motions related to Photoshop. Here are some photos below - the orange background is my Captivate background template, and I've added some photos of my settings. Any help is appreciated!

Be sure you have a blank (child) master slide and assign that one to the slides. If the objects you are seeing now sit on the main master slide, you can still create a blank child master slide for which you uncheck the options 'Show Main Master Slide Objects' adn 'Use Master Slide Background' in the Properties panel of that child master slide.
If you want to have the captured slides fitting in the central rectangular space, you'll need another approach: knockout master slide:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/create-and-use-a-knockout-master-slide
Lilybiri

Screen Capture on Windows

Hi
I need to capture some on screen video for a project i am working on. Unfortunately the site I am capturing- CMT.com's broadband LOADED runs Windows' DRM and does not work on a Mac. I have tried using SnagIt but it can only captture at 15fps and is an awkard application compared to SnapzPro. Can anyone recommend a way that i can do the screen capture on Windows?

http://www.capture-screen.com/

Screen Capture of Classic Window

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for