quickest way to email graphical contents of clipboard?

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The problem is that developers need to be able to quickly email the
graphical error message that they sometimes get. They can do it by
selecting the window, then ALT PrintScreen, then paste the clipboard
contents into a a graphics program, save the file and then email the
file. But this takes them too long they say. If they are using
thunderbird (most aren't :( ) they could paste it directly into an email
and then email it.

What I would like is a program that makes this a lot simpler to do
rather than the developers printing out a huge dark window just to show
us a simple error message. It would be good if the program used the
existing email client as this is already set up for the mail server and
address book.

MS Paint does this, but it doesn't compress the file and thus you get a
large bmp file.
 
On 22 Jun 2005, Rili wrote
The problem is that developers need to be able to quickly email
the graphical error message that they sometimes get. They can do
it by selecting the window, then ALT PrintScreen, then paste the
clipboard contents into a a graphics program, save the file and
then email the file. But this takes them too long they say. If
they are using thunderbird (most aren't :( ) they could paste it
directly into an email and then email it.

What I would like is a program that makes this a lot simpler to do
rather than the developers printing out a huge dark window just to
show us a simple error message. It would be good if the program
used the existing email client as this is already set up for the
mail server and address book.

MS Paint does this, but it doesn't compress the file and thus you
get a large bmp file.
Click to expand...

Would MWSnap work? http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html

It's a simple, non-installing program that lets you take cropped
screen-grabs, which you can save as a .jpg (or .gif/.bmp./tif, for that
matter).

If it was saved to, say, the desktop, it'd be a simple thing to right-
click the .jpg and send it via e-mail.
 
Hello, Rili!
You wrote on Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:22:50 +1000:
What I would like is a program that makes this a lot simpler to do
rather than the developers printing out a huge dark window just to
show us a simple error message. It would be good if the program used
the existing email client as this is already set up for the mail
server and address book.
Click to expand...

Why don't use MWSnap (http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html)
in conjunction with AutoMailer (http://www.duodata.de/automailer/)?

Kindly regards.
 
The problem is that developers need to be able to quickly email the
graphical error message that they sometimes get. They can do it by
selecting the window, then ALT PrintScreen, then paste the clipboard
contents into a a graphics program, save the file and then email the
file. But this takes them too long they say. If they are using
thunderbird (most aren't :( ) they could paste it directly into an email
and then email it.

What I would like is a program that makes this a lot simpler to do
rather than the developers printing out a huge dark window just to show
us a simple error message. It would be good if the program used the
existing email client as this is already set up for the mail server and
address book.

MS Paint does this, but it doesn't compress the file and thus you get a
large bmp file.
Click to expand...

Perhaps another approach would be a utility that would allow you to
scrape the text from the "graphical" error message, which could then be
pasted easily into an email.

TextGrabber
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000010955

CopyText
http://www10.pair.com/vsap/

or Google this group for a link to Scraper
 
Rili said:
The problem is that developers need to be able to quickly email the
graphical error message that they sometimes get. They can do it by
selecting the window, then ALT PrintScreen, then paste the clipboard
contents into a a graphics program, save the file and then email the
file. But this takes them too long they say. If they are using
thunderbird (most aren't :( ) they could paste it directly into an
email and then email it.

What I would like is a program that makes this a lot simpler to do
rather than the developers printing out a huge dark window just to
show us a simple error message. It would be good if the program used
the existing email client as this is already set up for the mail
server and address book.

MS Paint does this, but it doesn't compress the file and thus you get
a large bmp file.
Click to expand...

You could paste directly into Irfanview, Save As..., Send By Email
All from within Irfanview.
 
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