Screen print of graphics?

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

"Antti J Ylikoski" <antti.ylikoski@elisanet.fi> wrote in message
news:%%7Qo.37366$7N7.81@uutiset.elisa.fi...
> 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

"DonH" <donlhumphries@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> "Antti J Ylikoski" <antti.ylikoski@elisanet.fi> wrote in message
> news:%%7Qo.37366$7N7.81@uutiset.elisa.fi...
>> 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.

23.12.2010 0:32, DonH kirjoitti:
> "Antti J Ylikoski"<antti.ylikoski@elisanet.fi> wrote in message
> news:%%7Qo.37366$7N7.81@uutiset.elisa.fi...
>> 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
>
>

Have you got the Paint.NET yet?

Visit

www.getpaint.net/

and download the program. After you will succeed, I can give more
instructions about this.

regards, Antti "Andy"

23.12.2010 3:50, DonH kirjoitti:
> "DonH"<donlhumphries@bigpond.com> wrote in message
> news:l0vQo.5934$gM3.2199@viwinnwfe01.internal.bigp ond.com...
>> "Antti J Ylikoski"<antti.ylikoski@elisanet.fi> wrote in message
>> news:%%7Qo.37366$7N7.81@uutiset.elisa.fi...
>>> 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.
>
>

The Clipboard will end up with a large amount of binary data which carry
the information of your picture.

I tried this with my Windows 7. The default of the Clipboard works here
with my laptop. I can't see why your PC gives that error message.

Are there any Windows XP wizards here who could help?

andy y

On Dec 23, 3:30*am, Antti J Ylikoski <antti.yliko...@elisanet.fi>
wrote:
> Are there any Windows XP wizards here who could help?

As far as I can tell, pressing Shift+PrtSc, as you suggest, does *not*
copy QBASIC full-screen (e.g. SCREEN 1) graphics to the clipboard. I
ran a QBASIC program which generates SCREEN 1 graphics, pressed Shift-
PrtSc and examined the contents of the clipboard. All it contained
were the following formats:

CF_TEXT (1)
CF_OEMTEXT (7)
CF_UNICODETEXT (13)
CF_LOCALE (16)

So I don't understand how you were ever able to get SCREEN 1 graphics
into the clipboard. Have you some non-standard utility installed
which does that?

Richard.

<news@rtrussell.co.uk> wrote in message
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On Dec 23, 3:30 am, Antti J Ylikoski <antti.yliko...@elisanet.fi>
wrote:
> Are there any Windows XP wizards here who could help?

As far as I can tell, pressing Shift+PrtSc, as you suggest, does *not*
copy QBASIC full-screen (e.g. SCREEN 1) graphics to the clipboard. I
ran a QBASIC program which generates SCREEN 1 graphics, pressed Shift-
PrtSc and examined the contents of the clipboard. All it contained
were the following formats:

CF_TEXT (1)
CF_OEMTEXT (7)
CF_UNICODETEXT (13)
CF_LOCALE (16)

So I don't understand how you were ever able to get SCREEN 1 graphics
into the clipboard. Have you some non-standard utility installed
which does that?

Richard.

# Yes, there must be some specific reason(s) why Antti can do what others
can't - apart from using Win7 (if such is relevant).
I tried Alt+PrtScn, but that didn't work either.

On Dec 24, 5:02*pm, "DonH" <donlhumphr...@bigpond.com> wrote:
> # Yes, there must be some specific reason(s) why Antti can do what others
> can't - apart from using Win7 (if such is relevant).

I tried it under Windows 7: QBASIC wouldn't even let me select a
fullscreen mode! Whether that was to do with the version of Windows
or my graphics hardware I don't know.

If your QBASIC program will run successfully under one of the
emulators (such as my QB2BBC translator) that's one way to capture the
graphics output, because Alt-PrtScn *will* work in that case.

Richard.
http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/

24.12.2010 1:26, news@rtrussell.co.uk kirjoitti:
> On Dec 23, 3:30 am, Antti J Ylikoski<antti.yliko...@elisanet.fi>
> wrote:
>> Are there any Windows XP wizards here who could help?
>
> As far as I can tell, pressing Shift+PrtSc, as you suggest, does *not*
> copy QBASIC full-screen (e.g. SCREEN 1) graphics to the clipboard. I
> ran a QBASIC program which generates SCREEN 1 graphics, pressed Shift-
> PrtSc and examined the contents of the clipboard. All it contained
> were the following formats:
>
> CF_TEXT (1)
> CF_OEMTEXT (7)
> CF_UNICODETEXT (13)
> CF_LOCALE (16)
>
> So I don't understand how you were ever able to get SCREEN 1 graphics
> into the clipboard. Have you some non-standard utility installed
> which does that?
>
> Richard.

The secret is that I was somewhat imprecise while writing my entry.

I have always, with all programs I ever have used, been able to send the
screen buffer to the Clipboard with the Shift+PrtSc. I don't know what
the QBASIC is doing so that the abovementioned operation is impossible.
I said "I tried this" without explaining to which event or operation
the pronoun "this" was referring to.

I have a 64-bit Windows 7 .... the original QBASIC works on a 16-bit
MS-DOS, and this processor does not any more emulate the 16-bit Intel
processors.... An attempt to start QBASIC with such a 64-bit processor
gives an uncompatibility error.

I have been using the 64-bit continuation project, the QB64.EXE, see
http://www.qb64.net .

As far as I can tell it indeed is quite compatible with the old QBASIC.
Has RND(1) and MID$, the typical causes of error.... I have not yet
attempted the SCREEN 1 plus PrtSc into the Clipboard with the QB64.EXE,
but one of us might want to do so.


kind regards, Antti J Ylikoski
Helsinki, Finland, the E.U.

On Dec 24, 7:29*pm, Antti J Ylikoski <antti.yliko...@elisanet.fi>
wrote:
> I said "I tried this" without explaining to which event or operation
> the pronoun "this" was referring to.

Actually you said this: "my solution to the problem is to copy the
screen to the Clipboard with SHIFT-PrtSc" so you were quite
specifically claiming that Shift-PrtScn captures a QBASIC graphics
screen (what this thread is all about).

> I have a 64-bit Windows 7 .... the original QBASIC works on a 16-bit
> MS-DOS, and this processor does not any more emulate the 16-bit Intel
> processors....

The processor *does*, but your version of Windows *doesn't*. I also
run Windows 7 on a 64-bit CPU (AMD Athlon) but I run *32-bit* Windows
7: 16-bit MS-DOS applications like QBASIC run on it OK. Personally I
can't see much point in running 64-bit Windows 7; it generally doesn't
benefit 32-bit applications (unless you want to run a lot of them at
the same time).

If you want to run MS-DOS programs like QBASIC under 64-bit Windows,
you can do so using DOSBOX:

http://www.dosbox.com/

In fact I wouldn't be surprised if DOSBOX allows you to capture the
graphics screen, but I don't know for sure.

Richard.

On Dec 24, 11:05*pm, "n...@rtrussell.co.uk" <n...@rtrussell.co.uk>
wrote:
> In fact I wouldn't be surprised if DOSBOX allows you to capture the
> graphics screen, but I don't know for sure.

Just checked the docs and yes you can: Ctrl+F5 captures the DOSBOX
'screen'. However under Windows Vista or Windows 7 you must run
DOSBOX as an administrator for this to work:

http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Special_Keys

Richard.
http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/