Re: Screen capture and data plotting
- From: "Bob Harris" <rharris270[SPAM]@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:47:16 -0500
I normally just use a shift-print-screen to capture the whole screen or
alt-print-screen to capture the active window, then a simple paste into the
program of my choice. Note that on most keyboards just hitting print-screen
will not work. If you look carefully at the key you will see that the
print-screen funciton is above some other function, sort of like upper-case
vs lower-case.
I prefer PaintShopPro (version 9) as my graphics program, although Irfanview
(free) is also good. Other programs comptible with XP include Paint.Net
(free), Xnview (free), and Adobe PhotShop ($$$). Other option, many free,
can be found at:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads37.html
As far as a program to paste into, I use often use Microsoft WORD. If I
want to edit the image, I use PaintShopPro. A free alternative to WORD is
WRITE, which is part of Open Office. Open Office includes other functions
also found in Microsoft Office:
http://www.openoffice.org/
Another thought: You mention that this is "an old DOS program". If so,
then you could run it from an XP command prompt. Assuming that it can
accept input from a file, as opposed to being purely interactive, then you
could re-direct its output to a file. For example:
PLOT.EXE < INPUT.TXT >OUTPUT.TXT
Finally, for graphing I normally use EXCEL, part of Microsoft Office,
provided my employeer, otherwise $$$. A free alternative to EXCEL is CALC,
part of Open Office. In either case simple graphs are fairly easy to do, if
you have a column of X's and a column of Y's. Both have large built-in help
files, and there are several books about both available. Further, a search
of the web will probably find some user-based assistance or forums.
"William B. Lurie" <billurie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OfPBaeGkIHA.3888@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Several days ago, I asked some advice on how to do screen
capture under XP and was referred to Screen Hunter and
to Quick Screen Capture. I've tried both, and they work
but not in my application.
I'm running XP/SP2Also and I have an old DOS program which
plots data and makes graphs. I run it from Windows Explorer,
finding its .EXE program in its folder and executing it from
there. The graph appears full screen, but I have tried what
I think are all settings and combinations in Configuring
Quick Screen Capture and also in Screen Hunter. They both
work but I can't seem to grab the plot, which I believe may be
a "Full Screen" plot. I never seem to capture it to that I can
then copy it to a file, or Paste it into IrfanView..
Some more advice specific to those capture programs would be
welcome, and also some other programs to try.....
Also, if anybody knows of a good program for making graphs,
plots of a simple table of X-Y data, without all the advanced
frills of curve fitting and regression and other advanced
capabilities, please refer me to them.
.
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