I use "Prt Sc" key. You will get the whole page with virtual screen ON. Alt E leaves Arachne for printing with an external printing prog.
CU, Bastiaan On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 21:14:10 -0500 (EST), Klaus Hameyer wrote: > Hello Glenn and Greggy - > Before I say anything further, I want to thank Glenn for the > suggestions he provided, but also indicate that I completely > agree with Greggy regarding a structured and documented approach > to making changes in the Arachne package that is distributed. > At the risk of sounding defensive, I had always assumed that any > suggestions/problems expressed on this list would elicit help from > someone (nowadays mostly Glenn since he is most knowledgeable) and > only secondarily be EVALUATED for possible changes in a next version > of Arachne. > The matter with the PRINT/EXPORT/CAPTURE functions struck me as > inconsistent treatments, and so I outlined how they seemed to work > on my system and how I thought they SHOULD be working. > ^^^^^^^^^ > With Glenn's aid, analogy, a lot of trial and error, and the discovery > that the .AH files in the system/gui subdirectory can be changed, I > managed to address come of the things that I outlined in my last > message. You can skip this if it does not interest you. > ================================================================== > The following changes in MIME.CFG (in the main directory) and in > PRINT.AH and PRTBMP.AH (in the system\gui subdirectory) now do > the following for me: ALL output is now saved in the main directory > as a PAGE (or changed name) file with the appropriate extension > (i.e., TXT, PS, BMP, or JPG) when pressing the P, Alt-P, or CTRL-P > keys, respectively. A small "File saved" messages appears to let you > know something has happened. And the heading of the CTRL-P option makes > it clear that the screen can be saved EITHER as BMP or as JPG (by the way, > as I learned from the list, CJPEG.EXE is necessary for this; I downloaded > it from the web, but it should, again in my opinion, be included with the > Arachne package). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > I moved the bmp2jpg line from Glenn's section to the place in the > original where the export lines are located (one of Glenn's seemed to > duplicate one of the originals anyway?!). > They now look like this: > ;KAH---------------------------------------------------------------------- > file/export.dgi |[100]COPY _4prt.txt $s>NUL > \n del _4prt.txt \n if exist $s echo FILE SAVED > file/exportps.dgi |[100]COPY _4prt.ps $s>NUL > \n del _4prt.ps \n if exist $s echo FILE SAVED > file/exportbmp.dgi |[100]COPY _4prt.bmp $s>NUL > \n del _4prt.bmp \n if exist $s echo FILE SAVED > file/bmp2jpg.dgi |[100]cjpeg -q 95 -outfile $s _4prt.bmp > \n del _4prt.bmp \n if exist $s echo FILE SAVED > ;KAH--------------------------------------------------------------------- > (Lines split to fit on page) > I took out the sections from PRINT.AH that pertained to slicing up > a digest email, and I removed those things in PRTBMP.AH that did > not work for me anyway. So, no unresponsive clicks. > Needless to say, I saved all of the old files. > I was not able to do anything with the PRTSCRN function; my only > question is: Why does it overlay a DISPLAY onto what one is looking > at while hittingthe PRTSCRN key? If it did not do that, but only flashed > a small "File saved" notice, there would be no problem. Of course normally > PRTSCRN prints to a DOS printer, but Arachne cannot do that without external > programs in any case, so why bother when one can use ALT-P and get the whole > page rather than just one screen. Again, just another opinion! > ==================================================================== > But I want to reemphasize that I DO understand Greggy's point and I > agree completely. > And thanks again, Glenn. > Klaus Hameyer > Burlington, VT (USA)
