Print Screen paste to 'paint' all black?

[Thee Rickster ™]

Can't post my flowline pic problem because...

 

I formatted a brand new hard drive recently and

now when I hit print screen and paste it into

Paint every thing is black except text??

 

This pic is supposed to be a mastercam window

an even the outline what we see over the black

is not part of the MC window but of a word doc

underneath MC?

 

.

 

I know I put a new driver in but not the very latest.

 

Any one have any ideas how to fix this?

 

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

Rick

[Goldorak]

i get this sometimes, my screen shot is only my back ground

 

close every other windows and retry to print screen

 

or try to paste the screen shot in a .DOC file

[Fred @ Slate Industries]

Rick my PC must have been the one right behind yours on the production line..

 

You have to go into MC properties

(Task bar / icon /right click) and play with

the settings / Modes.

When I had the screen capture show up it made verify Black. So I set it back the way it was.

and now go into .cfg and turn the geo background White,

Get my screen shot,paste it. then turn ny background black again.

[The_Evil_Machinist]

lololol iz thats sum broken linux???

 

Rick, ya using win 7? cuz you can use snipping (start search it). It's way better than prtscn.

[Jim at Gentex]

Rickster,

 

Do you have the Verisurf add-ons installed?

If so, there's a Screen Shot utility there you could try.

 

I like it because it only copies the geomerty and not the ops manager or the toolbars.

[Thee Rickster ™]

Goldorac, doesent work in any software.

 

Tony, it does matter if MC is open, same crud.

 

Evil, Xp pro

 

Jim, I'll try that.

 

For now, I rebooted and tried to print screen the

default desktop back round and I get a paint error..

 

'error getting the clipboard data'

 

hit ok, then I get..

 

'there is not enough memory resources to complete operation, close some programs and try it again,

 

I had noting else running??

 

Calling all nerds, calling all nerds...

 

keep the ideas coming

 

for now I will try the new quadro drivers and see if that helps

 

Thanks

[Thee Rickster ™]

Installed the new drivers and rebooted and it still

gave me the derror.

 

I called my IT guy and he said to turn off dual

display, so i did, and the print screen worked

like it should??!!

 

Turned the other monitor back on and now it work

like it used to????!!!! LOL ...stupid computers!!

 

Thanks anywho

 

Rick

[Ralph@Faustson]

Rick,

Try making the Mastercam application window about 30 percent smaller( not maximumized ).

That works for me with dual monitors in XP.

[Jason B.]

quote:

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I like it because it only copies the geomerty and not the ops manager or the toolbars. [big Grin]

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Jim,

 

Mastercam should not be copying the operation manager or the toolbars. Are you using the printscreen command INSIDE Mastercam?

Go to top of screen and click on SCREEN then click on COPY IMAGE TO CLIPBOARD (way down on the bottom) then hit escape to include everything on the screen. This automatically excludes the operation manager and the toolbars and only includes what is in the screen window. Then open Paint or whatever you are using and hit Paste. Should work good. I have, at times received the same error message that Rickster is getting now,

quote:

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error getting the clipboard data'

'there is not enough memory resources to complete operation, close some programs and try it again,

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The only way I have been able to overcome this is by rebooting and that has always solved it for me.

[MotorCityMinion]

Rick, I saw the other post today on drivers. Try uninstalling all drivers, but google this 1st: Driver sweeper. Download and install it. I believe Guru 3D has it. HTH.

[Thee Rickster ™]

I'll keep those suggestions in mind if my easy

fix stops fixin' er

 

thanks

Rick

[Jim at Gentex]

Jason,

 

No, I was referring to the normal Windows keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + Print Scrn).

 

I always thought the printscreen command inside of Mastercam was the same thing, so I always just used the keyboard shortcut.

I guess we do learn something new every day!

 

Anyway, the Verisurf utility launches Paint and pastes the image automatically, so that's the one I've become accustomed to using.

Saving a click here and there adds up!

[Fred @ Slate Industries]

Rick

Playing with this:

 

Fixed my "All black" Screen capture.

[Thee Rickster ™]

Tony, where do you locate that?

I will try those settings.

 

It acted up again but no black capture just

the 'error getting the clipboard data' message

 

 

turn off duel view and turn back on fixed it again.

[Dan@home]

I think that is properties when you right click on your short cut icon. Different OS than I have..