Windows Printscreen
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Hit the Print Screen key on the keyboard? :hehe: Usually at the top right somewhere.
Common Windows control commands, hold down the CTRL key while hitting C, that will copy text to to clipboard. Print Screen copies an image to the clipboard. CTRL V will paste either text into a text editor or an image into any paint program.
For Trainz, taking screenshots is done for you, every time you hit Print Screen while running Trainz it saves a JPG file in the \UserData\screenshots folder.
Common Windows control commands, hold down the CTRL key while hitting C, that will copy text to to clipboard. Print Screen copies an image to the clipboard. CTRL V will paste either text into a text editor or an image into any paint program.
For Trainz, taking screenshots is done for you, every time you hit Print Screen while running Trainz it saves a JPG file in the \UserData\screenshots folder.
Almost forgot, FAQ: What's a "clipboard"?
It's a virtual clipboard that stores whatever was on the screen when you hit Print Screen the last time, or whatever text you copied last. Early versions of Windows (back when Explorer was called File Manager) had a shortcut to a clipboard viewer, the executable is still in Windows XP;
Find that file, right click, copy. Change to the desktop, right click, paste shortcut. Now you can pretend you're running Windows 3.0.
No real practical use for it, but for those who are wondering what the virtual clipboard looks like, there it is.
It's a virtual clipboard that stores whatever was on the screen when you hit Print Screen the last time, or whatever text you copied last. Early versions of Windows (back when Explorer was called File Manager) had a shortcut to a clipboard viewer, the executable is still in Windows XP;
Find that file, right click, copy. Change to the desktop, right click, paste shortcut. Now you can pretend you're running Windows 3.0.
No real practical use for it, but for those who are wondering what the virtual clipboard looks like, there it is.Retro00064
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@sniper297: Unfortunately, clipbrd.exe is not in Windows Vista's System32 folder. Fooey, that would have been cool to open. 
Regards,
Retro.
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Retro.
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Windows Printscreen works fine. I've used it numerous times, but it does not have a built in image editor. With PicPick, you hit the Printscreen key, and you can do everything in one operation and save it without having to copy and paste etc. Check it out. You might like it.
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josefdoc: I not sure what you are doing but the built in print screen will work fine..Trainz automatically will set up your pictures every time you push print screen button..You will find all of your prints in a folder..The procedure is, C/Program files/Auran/Data user/screenprint..Now if you want to put it on the network then you must have a hosting station like Photobucket..Google to find Photobucket..Its Free..:wave: :wave:
I don't use the editor on PicPick, but I *DO* use the ability to screenshot individual windows, the ability to screenshot a user-defined rectangle, the ability to scroll-screenshot webpages, and the ability to auto-save to a specified folder as .png files.
I also occasionally use picpick's eye dropper to check rendered colours vs texture colours, since the two are not the same thing.
I don't personally see how anyone can possibly be happy with windows' built-in screenshot system, since it doesn't even save to disk, you need to fiddle with paint.
