How do I "Grab" a windown (OS X)?
Everytime I start up the Grab application in OS X 10.1.5, I always have the same choices:
Selection
Screen
Timed Screen
And then I also have "Window" but that option is always disabled!!!
It's getting irritating as that is the most common type of Grab I need to use. Why is it always disabled? What am I doing wrong?
Thanks!
Selection
Screen
Timed Screen
And then I also have "Window" but that option is always disabled!!!
It's getting irritating as that is the most common type of Grab I need to use. Why is it always disabled? What am I doing wrong?
Thanks!
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<strong>Everytime I start up the Grab application in OS X 10.1.5, I always have the same choices:
Selection
Screen
Timed Screen
And then I also have "Window" but that option is always disabled!!!
It's getting irritating as that is the most common type of Grab I need to use. Why is it always disabled? What am I doing wrong?
Thanks!</strong><hr></blockquote>
CMD-SHIFT-3 will do a full screen capture.
CMD-SHIFT-4 will allow you to select a section for capture.
<strong>using Grab is soooo Newbie like
hey! come on. be nice.
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CMD-SHIFT-3 will do a full screen capture.
CMD-SHIFT-4 will allow you to select a section for capture.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yes, I know how to do a full-screen and a selection capture. I want a window capture. Supposedly this is supported by Grab, but it is always disabled.
<strong>using Grab is soooo Newbie like
If there is another method to easily get a snapshot of a window, please fill me in.
If not, don't let the door hit you in the a$$ on your way out
<strong>While the DVD player is running and a DVD is authenticated in the drive screen capture is disabled at the OS level.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I don't have a DVD player, but thanks for the tip (I might eventually get a superdrive). Btw, could having a regular CD in the drive cause a similar problem?
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I don't have a DVD player, but thanks for the tip (I might eventually get a superdrive). Btw, could having a regular CD in the drive cause a similar problem?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I don't believe so. The only reason that this is so for DVDs is that it was a concession that Apple had to make to the MPAA for the ability to add DVD. Even if the DVD program is hidden or minimized and you're trying to take a screenshot, until you eject the DVD and/or close DVD player the OS disables screenshot ability. I'm not sure if 3rd party programs can work around this or not though. But I would think that the 3rd party programs need the OS to allow them to screenshot.
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hey! come on. be nice.</strong><hr></blockquote>
did you see those
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If there is another method to easily get a snapshot of a window, please fill me in.
If not, don't let the door hit you in the a$$ on your way out
I'll look what I can do.
see my post above.
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CMD-SHIFT-3 will do a full screen capture.
CMD-SHIFT-4 will allow you to select a section for capture.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Where does it save the capture when you use these functions?
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Where does it save the capture when you use these functions?</strong><hr></blockquote>
on your desktop
[code] /Users/yourusername/Desktop/ </pre><hr></blockquote>
CMD-Shift-3 pops up this palette in SnapzProX
from <a href="http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/utilities/snapzprox/"; target="_blank">SnapzProX home page</a>
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Using Snapz Pro X, you don't have to tell people about how cool a game is or how to use a particular program -- you can just take a picture or movie of it and show them! The images Snapz Pro X generates are all web-ready, as are the QuickTime movies it makes -- just upload 'em and go! Snapz Pro X can even capture images and movies that are playing on your DVD Player if you have an nVidia graphics card!
To capture an image that is on screen, either use Snapz Pro X's powerful selection tool, or you can give the innovative new Objects tool a whirl. The Objects tool lets you simply click the windows/menus you'd like to capture, and Snapz Pro X will take care of saving them! Snapz Pro X also works when most other capture utilities won't, making it the screenshot utility of choice for manual writers, web publishers, and other media professionals.
"
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and no, i don't work for them
but i did try this the other day, all seems to work as advertised...
grabs movies with mouse action, individual windows (QS-ATI not nVidia, so didn't test DVD grab). worth trying, IMO...
[ 07-28-2002: Message edited by: curiousuburb ]</p>
<strong>While the DVD player is running and a DVD is authenticated in the drive screen capture is disabled at the OS level.</strong><hr></blockquote>
While not directly related to the original topic, I thought some of you might find it interesting that screen captures appear to work just fine when I play a DVD in VideoLAN client. I downloaded it after reading another thread, because Apple won't support DVD playback on my hardware under OS X, much to my annoyance. (Beige G3/300 w/ATI Rage Orion, and first generation DVD-ROM drive. I'm no longer using the original 6MB "personality" card.)
Anyway, you can download vlc here: <a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/macosx.html"; target="_blank">http://www.videolan.org/vlc/macosx.html</a>;
<strong>hmm... in OS 9 you can capture a window with CMD-SHIFT-CAPSLOCK-4. dunno with X
doesn't work... <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
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While not directly related to the original topic, I thought some of you might find it interesting that screen captures appear to work just fine when I play a DVD in VideoLAN client. I downloaded it after reading another thread, because Apple won't support DVD playback on my hardware under OS X, much to my annoyance. (Beige G3/300 w/ATI Rage Orion, and first generation DVD-ROM drive. I'm no longer using the original 6MB "personality" card.)
Anyway, you can download vlc here: <a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/macosx.html"; target="_blank">http://www.videolan.org/vlc/macosx.html</a></strong><hr></blockquote>;
I guess it's only with Apple's DVD Player then. Because I knew it was there, but I thought that it was built into the OS to deactivate when a DVD is authenticated. Maybe it's just when Apple's DVD Player runs then.