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Re: LDLite question
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Date: 
Tue, 11 May 1999 23:00:12 GMT
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How exactly do you lose control of the color depth when you do that?

Oops, am I off topic here...

John Matthews

Sproaticus <jsproat@geocities.com> wrote in message
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Steve Bliss wrote:
On Tue, 11 May 1999 14:30:53 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@geocities.com> • wrote:
John VanZwieten wrote:
Is there currently a way to force LDLite to take a "snapshot" of the • current
view and save it as a bitmap?  If not, this would be a nice addition • for a
future version.
Copying to the clipboard would be pretty cool, too.  :-,
Isn't that what alt-PrtScrn is for?

Sure, if you want a dump of what's on the screen.  Wouldn't do much good
once Gyug implements scrollbars.  Plus, you lose control of what color • depth
goes into the clipboard when you use PrtScrn.

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
May the Force be with y'all.



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  Re: LDLite question
 
John Matthews wrote in message ... (...) It uses the current screen colour depth. So it you're running 24 bit colour, that's what you get in your bitmap. Given that LDraw is still 4 bit colour, there's some wastage involved. Moz (26 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: LDLite question
 
(...) Sure, if you want a dump of what's on the screen. Wouldn't do much good once Gyug implements scrollbars. Plus, you lose control of what color depth goes into the clipboard when you use PrtScrn. Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.cad)

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