Screenshot utility

[Gary Rubin]

Does anyone know of a screenshot utility for Windows that will not just copy the screenshot to the clipboard, but will also automatically paste it into a Word doc?

And, yes, I know I could probably write this myself in LabVIEW...

Thanks,

Gary

EDIT: Answered my own question with a bit more googling: http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm

[Neville D]

I thought John Lokanis had written a utility that did just that.. check out the LAVA CR.

Neville.

[Gary Rubin]

QUOTE (Neville D @ Jul 24 2008, 12:28 PM)

I thought John Lokanis had written a utility that did just that.. check out the LAVA CR.

Unfortunately, that one is pretty expensive when you include the ~$2000 for LV8.5.

Also, based on the description, his saves the screenshot to an image file - I wanted something that would dump it into a document, saving myself having to switch windows and hit Ctrl-C.

[Neville D]

QUOTE (Gary Rubin @ Jul 24 2008, 09:35 AM)

Unfortunately, that one is pretty expensive when you include the ~$2000 for LV8.5.

Also, based on the description, his saves the screenshot to an image file - I wanted something that would dump it into a document, saving myself having to switch windows and hit Ctrl-C.

Fair enough.. you could build an exe, you know..

Neville.

[Yair]

Word has a fairly complete object model and I'm sure it's reasonably easy to add an image into a document. There should be some shipping examples of working with the Word ActiveX interface.

You might run into issues with different versions of Word, accessing an already open document, etc.

[Gary Rubin]

QUOTE (Yair @ Jul 24 2008, 01:03 PM)

Word has a fairly complete object model and I'm sure it's reasonably easy to add an image into a document. There should be some shipping examples of working with the Word ActiveX interface.

You might run into issues with different versions of Word, accessing an already open document, etc.

I seem to have found what I was looking for. Since I'm not looking for a project, $20 (or free for 30 days) is a pretty good deal.

[John Lokanis]

QUOTE (Gary Rubin @ Jul 24 2008, 10:09 AM)

I seem to have found what I was looking for. Since I'm not looking for a project, $20 (or free for 30 days) is a pretty good deal.

FWIW, you could use the report generation toolkit functions along with the example I created to automatically create a word doc and insert the image into it. You could then build all this into a small app and distrubute it to whomever needed this functionality. All you need is the LV8.5 Full Dev Suite on your machine to do this. Don;t we all have that?