Re: Great SWT Program
- From: bcd@xxxxxxxxxxx (Bent C Dalager)
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 13:14:28 +0000 (UTC)
In article <4bb20639-5a4f-4115-a562-c1627fcfa519@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<bbound@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 30, 6:45 am, b...@xxxxxxxxxxx (Bent C Dalager) wrote:
Ah, so now you've officially shifted from trying to win the debate on
merits to trying to win it on insult-points? [misattribution deleted]
[insults deleted]
No, I'm just noting that you responded to something I wrote with
nothing but insults, implying that you didn't have anything actually
substantive to offer in the way of logically-reasoned disagreement.
Your further insults and trying to put words in my mouth now only
serve to confirm this.
Your new exit strategy is only going to actually work if you delete
points such as these rather than reply to them individually.
Another direct hit!
Your imagination is working overtime today? :-)
I don't think so. If it wasn't a direct hit, why did you respond with
vitriol and invective instead of reason?
A reasoned response to an unfounded and irrelevant assertion - why
would I want to waste my time?
What are you babbling about? All that happens when I hit print screen
or alt-print screen is that it silently takes a screenshot of either
the whole screen or the active window, respectively.
Which bit of "part of the screen" was difficult to parse?
None. But if I want a specific subset of one window, I can crop the
result in a paint program. There's no need for wonky modeful behavior
in the window manager proper, and so there is none.
Ah, but it is: In OSX, Command-Shift-4 puts you into partial
screenshot mode (with a crosshairs cursor), where you get to select a
region of the screen which will be saved to a disk file once a region
has been marked.
While you are in this mode, your applications are unresponsive.
The amazing thing about GUIs is that things that get in your way can
be moved, minimized, closed, etc.
How cumbersome! You have to move all sorts of stuff to the side just
so you can take that partial screenshot?
It's not as cumbersome as having to do a bunch of stuff completely
blind!
But then, the alternative isn't to do anything blind anyway so that is
completely off topic.
Capturing text from a text-based window manager is analogous to
capturing pixels from a graphical window manager.
If you have a containing app like an xterm yes.
Text-based software always has a containing app[*]. It could be a
terminal emulator (xterm, cmd.exe, etc.), the OS or an OS-provided
piece of software (text-mode Linux systems) or whatever. This
containing app knows what is being displayed inside it and is fully
capable of doing screen capture of its contents.
* - perhaps this wasn't the case in the days when you could set the
DOS shell program to something other than command.com.
Cheers,
Bent D
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