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Ok, I've asked some stupitd questions in the past, but I forget how to take screenshots.  Can anyone tell me how I can do it?  I just finished a basic repaint of the Kirk Ollson F-16 and forget how to take pics of it.  I'd appreciate any help.

I use Ifranview but I think you can also hit "print screen" on your keyboard, too be honest I don't know where the shot will be put after hitting "print screen"

I think I figured it out, when you "print screen" it goes to your clipboard you then paste it in a editing program.

Speaking of the "clipboard" is there any way to see what is stored on it???

When you hit the 'Print Screen' key, a screenshot is placed on the clipboard, where you can open up and paste into any image editor

I use Irfanview too for single shots. You can also use the Windows Paint program. If you want to take a number of screen shots though, it might get tedious to pause the simulator and open a image tool then past it in and save it. For this type of work a screen shot utility is much easier. There's lots of them available. I use FScreen and YAFScreen (Yet Another FScreen). And there are others many freeware. Just check the download section under "Misc.".

Speaking of the "clipboard" is there any way to see what is stored on it???

Funny you should mention that. I remember having a Clipboard Viewer on a previous machine. I found it in the System Tools. You have to enable it from Control Panel/Add/Remove Programs. This is on Win98/Me. Not sure about WinXP. I took this shot the old-fashioned way & pasted it into IrfanView.


There's plenty of automatic multiple screengrab utilities posted here at SimV & all over the Web. MultiGrab is my own favourite. Been using it for years since it was first released. http://www.mnwright.btinternet.co.uk/

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