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wreckedcarzz

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Print Screen automaticly open and paste
« on: February 02, 2007, 02:51 AM »
Hey all
Was just thinking about how I use the Print Screen button a lot and then hit <Start key>+R and type MSPAINT.exe and THEN hit <Ctrl>+V to paste my pic into the window. How about an app that, when the Print Screen button is pressed and Windows captures the screen, a program sees the button being pressed, launches MSPAINT.exe and pastes the picture into the window. I know I could just use Mousers really cool ScreenshotCaptor, but it takes too long to load on my machine and I don't use any features but "Take images of active window"  ;D. Could anyone do this?
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Re: Print Screen automaticly open and paste
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2007, 04:55 AM »
Screenshot Captor could launch an external editor upon capture (see pic)

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but since you don't want SC running in the background, try IrfanView. i use it as my USB app (ie. when away from my PC). it can do a screen-capture and you can edit on after that..

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Re: Print Screen automaticly open and paste
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2007, 08:23 AM »
:) Or use PasteScreen!

To use it, save the script as PasteScreen.ahk, and install AutoHotkey.

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Code
;PasteScreen.ahk
; Pastes screen captures into Paintbrush
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#SingleInstance,Force
#NoEnv
#Persistent
SendMode,Input
Return

~*PrintScreen Up::
Run,mspaint.exe,,,pid
WinWait,ahk_pid %pid%
WinActivate,ahk_pid %pid%
WinWaitActive,ahk_pid %pid%
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Re: Print Screen automaticly open and paste
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2007, 05:49 AM »
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING skrommel! EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED!!!  :-*

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Re: Print Screen automaticly open and paste
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2007, 01:17 AM »
ok, that is pretty cool. Why didn't I think of doing that?  :Thmbsup:
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