Screenshots...

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I was happily playing Hoi2 for my AAr and suddenly into the screen hits a strange box... MARCO POLO BRIDGE INCIDENT!!! WHEEHAA!!! I'M GONNA KICK SOME CHINESE BUTT! Well I calmly press the screenshot button and plan to put it into my AAR as a picture. When I search my HOI2 files for the screenshot I'm like WTF!!! Where's the screenshot? Well I reload and this time I take MANY screenshots of the same event... Maybe I pushed it too lightly last time . Ahh, but no. The screenshots just can't come to papa. Can you help me? Anyone had these problems? Is this a bug in the bugless 1.3A????!!!

 

[Castellon]

How are you attempting to take the "Screenshot" ?

 

[Stonewall]

F11 is the screenshot button. However, my experience is that when the legder is open and when events are popping up, the F11 screenie button does not work. You can solve the problem by adding an extra step.

(1) When the event or ledger pops up, Press the [Print Screen] button. This will take a virtual screenie and store it in memory.

(2) After you have pressed [Print Screen], open up an image editor like MS Paint or photoshop or the Gimp or something like that and press [ctrl]+[v] which will "paste" the virtual image into the new image editor. Then save it.

 

[jpd]

Yup. The [Print Screen] trick is a very good work around.

Heck, I even use it specifically in games like World of Warcraft, where the build-in standard screen shot function produces some weird data file format, of which MS Paint can't make heads or tails

You only need to keep in mind that, when using it, the print screen function uses the Windows Clipboard to store the image. So any copy/cut operation, from anywhere in the system, that follows it will erase the image on the clipboard, and replace it with whatever should now be placed on it.

So, if you use it, immediately switch to the desktop, fire up your preferred paint program, and paste the image.

 

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Ohhh, thanks very much. I appreciate this .

 

[jpd]

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[coreymas]

There is a free program on the internet called cropper that allows you to do screen shots of particular size and it is very easy to use.

The icon to activate this tool is in the windows status bar and can be quite useful.

You still have to paste the image into a program that can accept images (like paint, MS Word etc).

Corey

 

[Castellon]

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