I have tried a number of methods,without success, to copy Arev windows (for documentation purposes)into MS Word.
Previously I think I set my application icon Properties -Screen - Usage to Window rather than Full Screen and used Print Screen to save the window. This does not now possible as selecting Usage Window option locks up the system.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Mark,
Even running in a full screen mode, either ALT-PRTSCRN or SHFT-PRTSCRN should copy the active window to the clipboard, which you can then paste into your Word (R) document. Also, there are utilities available which will let you do screen scrapes.
One that I use that I really like is called IceView. I'm not sure what the URL is, but you should be able to find it easily enough.
Matt Sorrell
In a Command.com (DOS) window under Windows, use Alt-Printscreen to place the screen image into the Windows Clipboard,
then Ctrl-V to Paste into MSPAINT.EXE (where you can de-colour or edit it) or optionally into WORD.
When in AREV you can Alt-Enter to toggle between full size window or smaller window.
You could also use a macro to trigger VIDEO.RW to read the screen image and then take every second byte and OSWRITE it to file. A recent SENL had some video read and write routines which delivered the screen contents as a contiguous array. Remember to add \0D0A\ to the output every 80 characters.
Steve
The ALT+PrintScreen or whatever will work providing that the shortcut has not un-checked these keys.
I routinely use cut+paste from AREV screens in window'd mode to transfer stuff around.
Don Miller
I haven't tried this myself but I think it should work. Before you do get a print screen, set PDISK to a file. So instead of going to the printer, it goes to a file. Once you're done captureing, remember to PDISK PRN. From there it should be an easy thing to manipulate the file.
Michael Slack
Mark
When you say you cannot set usage to window I assume you cannot change to full screen at runtime either?
But here's a not too bad workaround if you cannot use any of the other suggestions:
As you know - in an MS-DOS window, alt-PrintScreen will copy the content as an image. What I didn't know at least (until a couple of minutes ago) is that with MS-DOS run full screen, alt-PrintScreen will copy the content as text. So just paste that text into e.g MS Word, format with Courier, and you're almost halfway there.
Then you can use MS Word to change the fore- and background colour to recreate the Arev layout colouring. It might not be as much work as you think, because MS Word allows you to select a whole rectangle. Just start pressing the Alt key before you select with the mouse. (Note that this rectangle selction thing is slightly wobbly. It doesn't always work on a mixture of long and short lines. And after you've set e.g the background colour you might need to re-select before you set the foreground.)
- Oystein -
I have a copy of a little utility called SANPIT:
By: Mitch Howard - 09-12-91 i got off old compuserve board. This RBASIC program will grab the current arev window and write it out either as a record to a AREV LH file or write it out as a DOS file to dos. The source code that I have, has been be customized for our operation, but obviously you can change it.
What I did was 2 fold: captured all of my screen to a arev file for inclusion in a online help system and 2 captured them to a series of text files which i then used in desktop publishing for documentation.
If you are interested in it i can email you my source
ed
If you use text, you should make sure you use a nonproportional font like Courier. You can also get a text selection in Window mode by clicking the upper-left corner of the window where the icon is, select Edit, Mark. Then you can highlight a rectangular area of the screen. When you press Enter, the selection is transferred to the clipboard as a text selection. Note that this only works if Exclusive Mode is unchecked in the Misc tab of the properties window (this is the default).
As an aside, our indexer machines have this item checked because otherwise when we connect remotely via pcAnywhere, sometimes index checking ceases due to perceived mouse activity that actually is not occurring. I don't really know what is happening in that situation, but checking the exclusive mode setting resolves the problem.
Thanks for your reply. I would appreciate receiving the source code.
Thanks again.
My email address is [email protected]
Mark
Thanks for all of the responses to my questions. The help is most appreciated. I've tried a number of the suggestions and I am now creating some good looking documentation.
Thanks,
Mark