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It's been years since I've done a screenshot in the D8B and (sad to say) I have forgotten what the key command sequence is for doing a D8B screen capture.

Hi Frank

you da man you should never forget anything
so with that we need to send you to the jail house
you need to do time for forgetting something. so here is your choice
spend five years in jail or send me five hundred dollars for you forgetting. ha ha
its sunday so I hope you know I am just kidding around. I am sure someone
on here remembers the key command. maybe Crash or peter can chime in and help

joe allen

Mike Rivers will know, Frank. I'm sure it's the same keystroke command as for the HDR and I'm pretty sure it's in his book. I'm sorry, I can't remember either. I know it's alt something something. I seem to remember that the instruction may be in the help list on the right hand side of the screen (when selected in V5).

Peter

Peter:
I emailed Mike. I'll see what he says if he answers. As to documentation....there never was any...at all. It was a totally undocumented feature. I initially thought it was ALT/PrintScreen but that doesn't do it. Fuzzy memory is that there were at least 3 keys involved.

You could try <shift><command><4> Mac way, or something similar. Just a thought.

Peter

Nah....won't work. It is based on Windows/DOS something or other and the PrintScreen key is definitely involved.

I was wondering the same. Please let us know if you discover it. I'm nowhere near the d8b at the moment, and I never tried this, but I presume the standard Windows commands don't work (Shift+PrintScreen for the entire screen and Alt+PrintScreen for the active window)? Once you get the screen image into a buffer, how do you get it out? Is there a file you can grab via FTP?

I was also wondering if there's a way to do that with the DOS screens before the Mackie OS has booted?

Well...besides forgetting how to do it, I was wrong about the PrintScreen key. This is from an email from Mike Rivers:

Control-Esc takes a screen shot of the entire screen
Control-Shift-Esc takes a screen shot of a window, like a setup window (if there's one open)


Once invoked, it pops up a screenshot verification prompt.

You need to use FTP to get at the Screens folder....which contains .BMP image files. And they take quite a while to transfer because of the D8B's ancient ethernet protocol.

That's it.

Much thanks to Mike Rivers (who said he had forgotten as well but found it in his handwritten HDR notes).

Note to Peter Sueco: I think this is Database-worthy in the Tips section.

Thanks, Frank... and definitely worth a db entry.

Peter

I'm on it.

What section do you guys I should include it?