
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:13:57 -0400
From: Maurice Randall 
To: Colin Thomson
Subject: Screen2Paint

Hi Colin,

Here's the DA I told you about that I use to
make screenshots with. It will run in Wheels 64
or Wheels 128, 40 or 80 column mode. It works
in any app that can run a DA. There's no docs,
but it's easy to use, just run it.

When run, it automatically takes a snapshot of
the current screen and saves it to the current
directory as a GeoPaint file. A unique name is
given to the filename depending on which mode
you're in:

"SCREENSHOT 64"  for 64 mode.
"SCREENSHOT 40" for 128 40 column mode.
"SCREENSHOT 80" for 128 80 column mode.

If a filename exists of the same name, it will be
deleted and replaced with the new file. So, if you
want to take more than one screenshot, you must
rename the current file to something else before
making the next one.

It captures all the color, even in 80 column mode.
A 40 column screen will be placed at the upper
left corner of the GeoPaint image and will be
320 x 200 pixels. An 80 column screen will be
640 pixels wide, but will be stretched to 400 pixels
high (each vertical pixel will be duplicated) in order
to maintain the correct aspect ratio for printing as
well as for converting to other file formats for display
on other computers.

This file was archived with Wraptor V3.
It may be passed around freely to anyone that would
like to use it. I can also make the source code available
to anyone that's interested.

-Maurice



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