BobH wrote: ↑23 Jun 2023, 20:46
.... I recall having successfully captured drop down menus/windows using Snipping Tool. IIRC, I first launched the snipping tool then pressed escape then initiated the drop down window and was given the grayed screen...... these methods is working for me today.
Hi Bob
We spoke about this problem a
while back.
You had the problem, I didn’t, … I also didn’t know back then about that neat way to catch pop ups and drop down. After learning about it in that thread I use it almost every time I use Snipping tool on my windows 10 machines.
Later I did catch the same problem. I solved it in a not
too neat way by hitting the escape key a lot and erratically connecting and disconnecting the keyboard.
That seems to somehow flush out the problem, as well as straightening out some other things that stopped working properly on the keyboard after an update..
**
Alan
( P.S: By the way, Bob, not a lot of people know this: If you are using Snipping Tool in windows 10, then
after you have done the snip and are in the window where you save it from, have a look to see if you see an extra paint icon
https://i.postimg.cc/1XsXQC83/Extra-Pai ... dows10.jpg
Click it and you might be impressed by a nice seamless way to pass your snip into paint.
I think Microsoft were keen a while back to get rid of Snipping Tool, and that is why some fiddling around in updates and things sometimes messed it up. There was also a nice article on this new paint icon feature. That has been removed as well, but if you are quick you can still catch this archived version.
https://i.postimg.cc/xjp7zkP6/Extra-Pai ... rtical.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20230306194 ... -paint-3d/
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https://web.archive.org/web/20230306194633/https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-seamlessly-pass-an-image-from-the-windows-10-snipping-tool-to-paint-3d/
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**Edit: I just checked a Home version of windows 10 and once again this nice way to catch pop ups and drop down has stopped working again, on that Home version machine. (On all my windows 10 pro machines it is still working.) So looks like something has messed it up again. I will post back if I ever get it fixed again.