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Taking a picture of a window in MacOS X:
To take a picture of a window, the menu bar, the Dock, or other area, press Command-Shift-4, then press the Space bar. Move the pointer over the area you want so that it's highlighted, then click. (If you decide you want to drag to select the area, press the Space bar again.)
This is mostly a note to myself because I can never seem to remember the sequence correctly (I keep thinking it's the CAPS LOCK key, which it may have been for some version in Classic). And every time I ask someone they respond with "You can do that?" The spacebar... I'd have never thought of that one.
Posted by Dave at January 23, 2005 11:02 PMNice post, thanks -- didn't know about the spacebar trick, though I did know about command-shift-4.
Posted by: Bryan Pietrzak on January 23, 2005 11:07 PM commLinkGlad you liked it Bryan. I meant to do this on Monday and suddenly it's early in the morning on Wednesday.
Every time I need it, I hit a search engine and fail, so I go stumbling around in Help. As you mentioned, Command-Shift-4 has been with us since at least System 6 (perhaps before) implemented as an FKEY (cmd-shift-number). And once I learned of the FKEY mechanism, I went bonkers. I usually had six or seven installed (including the two screen shot items) including one that had grown for years and years; often known by friends as the FKEY from hell (used to process code mostly). Somewhere along the line (MacOS 8 perhaps?) they added the window snapshot method (I'm pretty sure the CAPS LOCK key was involved... but it's been a while).
It was nice of Apple to use the same keystrokes for screen captures under MacOS X, but I still miss the idea of a small context aware, loadable driver (that was after all the definition of an FKEY). A loadable user space code module would have worked, but we'll have to live with AE's and such for now.
Posted by: Dave Ely on January 26, 2005 12:14 AM commLink