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  • Using PRINT SCREEN button for screenshots? Clipboard?

    From David K@muskyjitterbug3@gmail.com to alt.computer on Fri Jul 2 01:28:38 2021
    Is there a way to use the PRINT SCREEN button on the keyboard to make a screenshot that I can then open on the clipboard of various image-editing programs? I suspect that my PRINT SCREEN button may possibly even be defective!

    Thanks,

    David K
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  • From Paul@nospam@needed.invalid to alt.computer on Fri Jul 2 04:38:25 2021
    David K wrote:
    Is there a way to use the PRINT SCREEN button on the keyboard to make a screenshot that I can then open on the clipboard of various image-editing programs? I suspect that my PRINT SCREEN button may possibly even be defective!

    Thanks,

    David K

    You can test with osk.exe, which has a PrtScn button.

    In my example here, in the graphics tool, you can see my
    pasted screenshot catches OSK while PrtScn button is
    depressed and highlighted.

    https://i.postimg.cc/0yq6pYbj/print-screen-to-gimp-pasted.gif

    Paul
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