"DonH" <donlhumphries@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> "Antti J Ylikoski" <antti.ylikoski@elisanet.fi> wrote in message
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>> 21.12.2010 19:51, DonH kirjoitti:
>>> "Antti J Ylikoski"<antti.ylikoski@elisanet.fi> wrote in message
>>> news:PD7Po.36282$7N7.17593@uutiset.elisa.fi...
>>>> 2.12.2010 23:06, winston19842005 kirjoitti:
>>>>> On 12/2/10 2:43 PM, in article
>>>>> qFSJo.3988$gM3.3539@viwinnwfe01.internal.bigpond.c om, "DonH"
>>>>> <donlhumphries@bigpond.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Not possible, it seems, yet if you output text (as such, via SCREEN
>>>>>> 0),
>>>>>> you
>>>>>> can use PrtScn button on your keyboard to copy the on-screen image.
>>>>>> But, to keep and use output from SCREEN 1 (and upwards) requires
>>>>>> saving to
>>>>>> an array, or such-like.
>>>>>> Incidentally, a QBasic program is saved in a .BAS file, but you
>>>>>> can
>>>>>> also
>>>>>> save it in a .TXT file - for other uses. Saving to a .DOC file is
>>>>>> not
>>>>>> recommended.
>>>>>> PRINT is alright, but I find LPRINT a pain.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Well, in the days of DOS, there used to be a DOS extension, named
>>>>> GRAPHICS.COM, that allowed you to generate print screens of Basic
>>>>> graphics,
>>>>> from the Basic interpreters/compilers of the day.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't really know if this is of any help -- but my solution to the
>>>> problem is to copy the screen to the Clipboard with SHIFT-PrtSc, and
>>>> then
>>>> open the Paint.NET program (find it with the Google) and transfer the
>>>> graphics picture into the Paint.NET with the Control-V.
>>>>
>>>> After that, saving the graphics, or in general arbitrary modification
>>>> to
>>>> the picture is possible. The Paint.NET is a nice image manipulation
>>>> program -- it is freeware and easy to use.
>>>>
>>>> kind regards, Antti J Ylikoski
>>>> Teekkarikylä, Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland, the E.U.
>>>>
>>>
>>> # Interesting, but I didn't get to first base.
>>> With these Function or Hot keys, are you supposed to press them
>>> simultaneously or in succession; and where has Clipboard Viewer gone
>>> (available in Win98, but not WinXP)?
>>> Does screen resolution have any bearing on the whole matter? WinXP
>>> (1024
>>> by 768 pixels) trying to copy from QBasic, being different.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> OK, here come detailed instructions.
>>
>> 1) press SHIFT and after that, without letting SHIFT come up, press
>> PrtSc. This sends the entire contents of the display to the Clipboard.
>>
>> 2) double-click the Paint.NET icon with the Left mouse key. This brings
>> the Paint.NET program to the screen.
>>
>> 3) choose from Paint.NET's pull-down menu the option "New". This opens
>> a new picture buffer in the program.
>>
>> 4) take the cursor to the big white area in the middle of the middle
>> window of the Paint.NET, press CONTROL and without letting CONTROL go up
>> press V. This sends the Clipboard's entire contents into the Paint.NET's
>> picture buffer. The program automagically takes care of the display
>> resolution, and of enlargening the canvas to hold the whole buffer.
>>
>> 5) choose Save As, and save your graphics anywhere you should wish.
>>
>>
>>
>> I hope that this will help.
>>
>>
>> kind regards, Antti J Ylikoski
>> Helsinki, Finland, the E.U.
>
> # Ah, yes, thanks.
> I've now suceeded in copying a (garbled?) QBasic colour screen to
> Clipboard, so ready for next step.
> Incidentally, if you were a Win98 but now WinXP, then Clipboard Viewer
> is no longer an automatic Accessory; but is available via "clipbrd.exe";
> use Run to access, and create a Desktop icon.
> See NG: alt.os.windows-xp
>

# Sorry, but stuck at Stage (4).
The Clipboard may come up with some (binary?) code, but Paint.NET says
"The clipboard doesn't contain an image".
Maybe my settings in Clipboard are inappropriate? There, "View" has
various options, and this is improved when copying an image from MS-Paint,
for example, if, instead of Default, I choose Bitmap. A copy from QBasic
screen doesn't have any such View option.