Wasn't actually a problem, just a poorly-designed UI. ThinkVantage Communications Snapshot button opened up a new window with the snapshot in it. Unfortunately, this window wound up on the bottom of the window stack, so it wasn't until I minimized everything that I found it, and it was a "Toolbox" window so it never showed up on the taskbar.
Annoying. - Alex -- It is referred to as the Fibonacci meal. Today's dinner is the sum of yesterday's leftovers and the day before's leftovers. On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Alex Austin <[email protected]>wrote: > In Windows XP, I could to go My Computer and the webcam would show up > there. Double-Clicking it would "open" the camera in Explorer - the view > looked similar to the filmstrip mode of a pictures folder, but with a live > camera view on top and a list of taken pictures on the bottom, plus a button > to take pictures. > > Wind Windows 7, on my X120e, I don't see the camera in My Computer. I > opened the Scanner and Camera Wizard and it doesn't show up there either. > Pressing Fn-F6 opens ThinkVantage Communications where I can see the current > view from the camera. There's a button labeled Take Snapshot. The first time > I clicked that, the whole window went away. I went looking in my Pictures > folder to see if it had shown up there, but I didn't see it. So, I hit Fn-F6 > again, and now the Take Snapshot button is disabled. > > In Device Manager, pulling up the webcam and looking at Driver Details > shows some files in C:\Windows\twain_32, but it seems Scanner and Camera > Wizard can't find them. > > Any idea how to take a snapshot from this webcam? > > - Alex > -- > It is referred to as the Fibonacci meal. Today's dinner is the sum of > yesterday's leftovers and the day before's leftovers. > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
