select from another window using ms paint

[Adam Chapman]

Hi,

I once saw somebody use the select tool in ms paint to select an area
in another window, it was just like taking a screenshot over a limited
area.

He used the select tool while holding down a key (or keys) on the
keyboard.

Does anyone know what keys these were?

 

[RobertVA]

Hi,

I once saw somebody use the select tool in ms paint to select an area
in another window, it was just like taking a screenshot over a limited
area.

He used the select tool while holding down a key (or keys) on the
keyboard.

Does anyone know what keys these were?

More likely they were using some third party screen capture program OR
you were watching after they had pasted the captured screen image into
Paint and they were in the process of cropping the image.

It would also be quite possible to copy an area of a bitmap in another
graphics program to the Windows clipboard and paste it into Paint. You
wouldn't be able to capture things like tool bars and menus that way though.

Note that the screen capture will be limited to the active window if you
hold the ALT key down while you press the "Print Screen" key.