You need to push alt-printscreen to capture the window in focus. I always right click the emulator and turn Transparent off. And I set my desktop color to white. Do alt-printscreen (make sure you click on the emulator first to make it the focused window) and then paste into the appropriate program (like Paint Shop Pro).

I an still having difficulty visualizing how one would use the screen captured imafge of the remote emulator to annotate hard button assignments. Does anyone have an image of this use to post?

Jim, thanks for the tip on Daniels ProntoINI Workshop. It is now working for me.

Geoff

The new versions of the actual remote has labels for all of the buttons. I believe the software (touchscreen setup) also has labels on hard button programming pages.

Dean,
I can't imagine what you are referring to? My remote is only 3 weeks old. Can you post a link or show a demonstration?

Geoff

Grubin,

I think Dean is referring to the Pro, not the 9200.

Someone suggested taking a blank panel and putting the bitmap of the picture of the remote on this page. You could then label what each key is used for. Let's say you were using the DVD device. You'd put a key on your DVD panel to jump to the labeled image of the remote as a part of a macro. I.e., Jump (to picture of remote, Delay (5 sec), Jump (to the DVD panel you just came from. This macro would flash the labeled image of the remote for 5 sec before putting you back where you were. Three considerations:

1. You need an image of the remote for each device.
2. You a button, with macro, on each page.
3. You need a hidden button with at least a delay on it on each panel that the picture of the remote is on. Otherwise it won't jump.

Hope that isn't too confusing,

Jim L

Jim,

I don't finbd the methods confusing at all. What I am trying to grock is how does one take an image of the remote where 80% is screen and 20% is the hard button area and apply labels to the miniscule hard button images in a useful fashion that is superior to skipping the screen grab altogether and creating an idealized frame of the hard button area that does not dominate the screen area.

Geoff

Geoff,

Basically I resized in order to fit things in. I've e-mailed you a copy of one of the "key" panels in .ccf format. Not a complete ccf, just one of the panels.

By the way, good thread topic you started. Gave me some ideas.

Jim L

This message was edited by bomberjim on 02/05/02 00:15.38.

I did some tests with Print screen

PS : File of current panel
ALT+PS: partial screen capture around the remote into the clipboard
CTRL+ PS: image of the full screen in clipboard + creation of the file of the current panel at the same time. (it does both at the same time)

Goeff you could recreate the remote by redrawing it or only draw the second part. But the good thing of using the actual image in whole or in part is that it is more intuitive to the user, and it is shorter then recreating it.

Jim,

I thought that I would than you publicly for the emailed CCF. I may play around with using a subset of the full emulator image - just the button zones. However, I am concerned that there is insufficient space to fit labels adjacent to the buttons, that is why I am trying to create something representational, but still intuitive for the unfamiliar user to understand. I'll play around with it in Photoshop.

Geoff