epepke
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I can't remember. It's flower-3 or flower-4. It's been available on Macs since 1984, but for one version it didn't work properly.
Lord Emsworth
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Try:
Cmd-shift-3 or Cmd-Shift-4 and look into MacHD (or whatever your start volume is called) for a .pict file. One of the key combos takes a full screenshot the other lets you define a certain area only but I've forgotten which is which.
Cmd-shift-3 or Cmd-Shift-4 and look into MacHD (or whatever your start volume is called) for a .pict file. One of the key combos takes a full screenshot the other lets you define a certain area only but I've forgotten which is which.
Lord Emsworth
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What would you suggest as a key combo for a feature that gets used (if at all) once every six months by the average Mac user? Cmd-s?
ETA: And what is so hard about pressing two modifier keys anyway?
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How do you know how often it is used by the average Mac user?
Funny, I was thinking that was an overestimation. I have never used one, but maybe I will try it...gee, if I can figure out the user-hostile process of clicking two whole keys...
Lord Emsworth
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Why do you not just tell me what you'd suggest? I'd be curious - after that I tell you too.
Before we know how often a key is used, we can't place it on a keyboard.
Now, I know that this is not how the letters were assigned their positions on our keyboards, but there should be reasons why a specific task is assigned to a certain keyboard combination.
If the task is performed frequently, it should be as easy to reach as possible. In theory, of course.
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This begs a question I've had for years. How can I get a screen shot of a screen saver? I have a great screen saver on my Apple Performa 450 (yes, many decades old and I still use it) and it's good enough to want to frame some of the designs it comes up with. Alas, I can only look and commit them to memory.
Could you please tell us a user-friendlier way to do it?
Actually, I do. And I use it.
If Mac is so much better, a little criticism shouldn't hurt you.
And I don't. And back then when my keyboard had such a key, I didn't use it. In the 23 years that I have been using computers, I have taken screenshots on four separate occasions.
I don't have any problems with pressing three keys at one time (All Hail Emacs! All Hail Emacs!). And if I did, I could turn on the "sticky modifier keys" option and press them one after another. Not to mention that "PrintScr" key is usually outside the main keyboard area so I would have to move my right hand to hit it that would be more cumbersome than hitting "Shift-Option-4" with my left hand.
In case I didn't want to use keyboard at all, I could start the "Grab" application and just point-and-click the menus to get the screenshots.
Apple lists all the command options for this:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=12555
As for user friendliness, all the Apple combinations can be done can be done left handed, with the majority of people using mice with their right-hand this means you can quickly mouse and screen capture at the same time.
On Windows you usually have to use your right-hand to hit print screen (or if you want just a particular window, the finger stretching Alt+PrintScrn). That means mouse, to keyboard, back to mouse, and so on.
Apple also offers more options such as saving to a file (if you do it multiple times, each file is saved with a number at the end) so if you have to make lots of screen shots you don't have to go paste that image somewhere, then go back to where you were, take another screen shot, go back and paste it, etc....
And finally the Mac lets you do a rectangular area, which Windows doesn't (without an add-on package).
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=12555
As for user friendliness, all the Apple combinations can be done can be done left handed, with the majority of people using mice with their right-hand this means you can quickly mouse and screen capture at the same time.
On Windows you usually have to use your right-hand to hit print screen (or if you want just a particular window, the finger stretching Alt+PrintScrn). That means mouse, to keyboard, back to mouse, and so on.
Apple also offers more options such as saving to a file (if you do it multiple times, each file is saved with a number at the end) so if you have to make lots of screen shots you don't have to go paste that image somewhere, then go back to where you were, take another screen shot, go back and paste it, etc....
And finally the Mac lets you do a rectangular area, which Windows doesn't (without an add-on package).