ZapGrab
Zap's Simple Screen grabber for NT

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Other NT hacks: Switcher, HogWash and Go3D
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What ZapGrab is about

• Press Print Screen to grab the entire screen to the clipboard
• Press Alt+Print Screen to grab the current window to the clipboard

Either you grab the whole screen, paste it into some program like PaintBrush, and cut out the portion you want - pretty tedious. Or, you use a screen grabber.

Numerous screen grabbers have been written for Windows 3.1, but if you try to use them under NT, you will see that they do not work.

The reason for that is "mouse capture", the handling of the Win32 SetCapture() function is different under NT; A program can only own the mouse while a mousebutton is being held down!!

Because of this, all Windows 3.1 screen grabbing programs that use the SetCapture() function does not work under NT!

Grabbing pieces of the screen is convinient, so I wrote ZapGrab. It's a minimalistic program, and the operation of the program is obvious:

• Launch it
• A dialog appears:
• Pick up the program you want to grab the picture from.
• Press the "Grab" button
• Drag your mouse over the area to copy
• The area is now in your clipboard, ready to past into any program
• Things can't possibly be much simpler...