Screen capture of tooltips

[mr.mike.ward]

Anyone know of a freeware Windows XP screen capture utility that
captures tooltips and mouse cursors with the images?

Regards,

- Mike

 

[Wayne Boatwright]

Anyone know of a freeware Windows XP screen capture utility that
captures tooltips and mouse cursors with the images?

Regards,

- Mike

The last freeware version of PrintKey 2000 can do this. It's a very handy
printscreen utility.

http://www.webtree.ca/newlife/printkey_info.htm

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[Eric]

Irfanview can do this also.

Make sure you check the "include mouse cursor" box. I've found that
using the timed capture works best because the hot-key causes the
tooltips to vanish with most programs.

 

[mr.mike.ward]

Just tried irfanview and PrinkKey 2000 and neither one captures
tooltips. There are several shareware packages I've test that do so I
know this is possible. So the question remains, is there a freeware
screen capture program that captures tooltips?

 

[Mister2u]

One of these does http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/gmm/fwscreen.html
..Sorry I can't remember which one I tried a few and one of the ones I
didin't like included my cursor.

 

[Eric]

Just tried irfanview and PrinkKey 2000 and neither one captures
tooltips. There are several shareware packages I've test that do so I
know this is possible. So the question remains, is there a freeware
screen capture program that captures tooltips?

Try Irfanview again. I just tested it and it captured tooltips from
three different programs.

There is an example at
<http://www.widewaterfilms.com/other/tooltip.jpg>

Make sure you are using "Automatic: timer delay X seconds" and have
"include mouse cursor" checked. Any other setting will NOT work.

Also, I found that you should put your mouse over the tooltip spot just
before it's going to capture. On two of the programs I tested, the tip
automatically vanished after 3 seconds so it was already gone by the
time Irfanview took the shot if I was on it too quickly.

 

[mr.mike.ward]

Dang, just doesn't work for me. It captures the mouse cursor, but not
the tooltip.

 

[kw]

Gadwin PrintScreen
http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/

example
<http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/7620/donadams0309sv.png>

 

[mr.mike.ward]

I've used Gadwin and like it a lot. It captures tooltips in some
programs and not others.