TIP: Sharing Message Box Text

re: TIP: Sharing Message Box Text

Ken Cox [MVP - ASP.NET] — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 03:47:00 GMT

The technique works on that msgbox but not on many dialog boxes. For example, if I run this from the Run box in XP Pro SP2 RC2:

winver

and do Ctrl-C on the dialog box, I get... nothing to paste into Notepad.

Maybe someone could explain why some windows accept Ctrl-C and some don't? Is there a property that needs to be set to make it work?

BTW, it would be nice if the next version of Windows would let us select *any* text on the screen and copy it to the clipboard just like we can do in IE.

Ken

re: TIP: Sharing Message Box Text

ShadowChaser — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 03:55:00 GMT

It only works in message boxes that use the "MessageBox" API, not custom drawn windows. :-)

Cool tip from MS guy

Young's Weblog — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:29:00 GMT

Cool tip from MS guy

Young's Weblog — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:29:00 GMT

re: TIP: Sharing Message Box Text

Nick Codignotto — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:35:00 GMT

What a great tip, I had no idea.

If you must send a screenshot, I recommend a 24-bit Png, which is easily created with mspaint. Here are some quick steps:

1. Hit Alt-PrtScrn
2. Hit WindowKey+R (Run)
3. Type mspaint
4. Paste your image from the clipboard into mspaint. If you make the initial image size small, it will automatically expand to fit your clipboard exactly.
5. Save as 24-bit PNG.

The quality will be perfect and the size will be minimize. GIF ir JPEG will offer an even smaller file, but it will look terrible for most applications.

re: TIP: Sharing Message Box Text

Doug Lawty — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:33:00 GMT

Hey Nick,

Those are exactly the steps I followed to make the image of the dialog above! (Well, not exactly, I never remember to use the Windows key but I think that's because on my Tablet's keyboard it's way up on the right.)

For everyone else, the key part of Nick's tip is the second part of step 4. (You set the image size under "Image | Attributes...") If you forget that, then you'll have a canvas that's too big. You could always select the area you want and use "Edit | Copy To..." to save the selection to a file but PNG is not an option then.

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TrackBack — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:29:00 GMT

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re: TIP: Sharing Message Box Text

Brian Beatty — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:32:00 GMT

Cool Tip

re: TIP: Sharing Message Box Text

pods — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:41:00 GMT

i've got excited, but... it's extremely annoying now, when too much message boxes are custom. therefore doesn't support this behavior i expect ;(

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