From: Gary Britt 

 Its not a dos app window I want to capture.

Gary



Geo. wrote:
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> Geo.
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> "Gary Britt" 
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>> Yes that would be one way.  I've thought about doing something similar
>> by capturing the window at various times of the day and saving all to
>> separate files and then using a macro to update the wallpaper every so
>> often.  I was wondering if there was a way to capture the screen of a
>> program or place the screen window of a program in a more *live* way
>> an active desktop live kind of way.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> mike wrote:
>>> On Sun, 06 May 2007 14:18:29 -0400, Gary Britt
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is it possible to capture the screen window of a program that is
>>>> running locally on the machine in question as an html file or
>>>> something so it can be displayed as the background desktop wallpaper
>>>> on that same machine?
>>>
>>> Here's how I would do it with the stuff I have:
>>>
>>> 1) Alt-PrintScrn places an image of the active window onto the clipboard
>>>
>>> 2) open PMView, and Edit>Paste image from clipboard.
>>>
>>> 3) save image as jpg file
>>>
>>> 4) open jpg file in Opera, OMB and select  Use image as desktop
>>>
>>>
>>> There may be easier ways with other software.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Is it possible to make the link *live* so the desktop image updates
>>>> periodically as the program's screen window updates?
>>>
>>> Dunno.
>>>
>>>> Is there a utility for this kind of thing?
>>>
>>> Probably.
>>>
>>>
>>>   /m
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