Author Topic: 'Capturing' the text from the 'tool-tip' pop-up help boxes in PI  (Read 3838 times)

Offline Niall Saunders

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Hi all, and hope that any festive over-indulgence still finds you all well.

Does anyone know how I can either screen-capture, or text-capture (my preferred result) the text from the little transparent 'tool-tip' boxes that pop-up when you hover over a parameter input field in a PI process dialogue box?

I was hoping to incorporate the information in the commentary and notes for a video tutorial that I am working on (as well as just trying to better understand the ImageIntegration process).

Any ideas  ???

Cheers,
Cheers,
Niall Saunders
Clinterty Observatories
Aberdeen, UK

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Re: 'Capturing' the text from the 'tool-tip' pop-up help boxes in PI
« Reply #1 on: 2009 December 30 01:49:31 »
Hi Niall,
I do that with a nice little soft MWSnap 3, working on Windows only.
http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
He permit to capture images from any selected part of a screen.

Hope that help.

Cheers

Antoine
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Re: 'Capturing' the text from the 'tool-tip' pop-up help boxes in PI
« Reply #2 on: 2009 December 30 03:53:41 »
Hi Antoine,

I have tried various screen capture programs, however as soon as I 'trigger' the capture, the pop-up box 'disappears'. Can you try it with your package and send me a simple screen-capture of a pop-up box>

Thanks,
Cheers,
Niall Saunders
Clinterty Observatories
Aberdeen, UK

Altair Astro GSO 10" f/8 Ritchey Chrétien CF OTA on EQ8 mount with homebrew 3D Balance and Pier
Moonfish ED80 APO & Celestron Omni XLT 120
QHY10 CCD & QHY5L-II Colour
9mm TS-OAG and Meade DSI-IIC