A Stitch in Time

[Zedd]

Originally posted by obiwan18
I'd love to but I don't have the web space to host the pictures, and I don't know how to do a screen shot.

I have a great little program called "Print Key" that i could email you if you like. it is 550 KB in size and will allow you to custumize your screen shots. youhit print screen and the program will open and let you save the file as just about any image file, or you can hit an edit button and it will open Paint for you so that you can edit your screen shot.

[Ben Kenobi]

I have to have paint to make that useful.



I'm very curious as to why paint does not seem to be included with the windows installation that I had a friend do on this computer. It should be there, but I can't seem to find anything except the help files. Very curious.

[cavebear]

Do a directory search for "mspaint.exe". If you don't have that, then you don't have the program. Do you have any other graphics program? You can open a screenshot in any of them.

[Bob_Smurf42]

No MSPaint? Do you have the .cab files on your HD, or do you have the installation disk somewhere? If so, you can go to Add/Remove Programs in the control Panel and reinstall it from there. If you don't have the install disk or the .cabs, then I don't know what you can do.

[Ben Kenobi]

That did the trick.

Thanks BobSmurf.

Uploaded file of test city to Apolyton.
Now I just have to read over Cavebear's suggestions for posting screenshots.

Thanks for everyone's patience.

[Hydey]

If everyone in the world was as helpful to each other like we are on apolyton then it would be a great place to live.

[cavebear]

Other people helped me to figure out how to do things like post screenshots, so it's only fair to pass the favor along. The first time you manage to get a screenshot to appear is a great feeling.

[H Tower]

FYI, for the future, save the picture as .gif or .jpg then the [ img] [ /img] tags will work with the link you have.

[-Jrabbit]

Originally posted by Hydey
If everyone in the world was as helpful to each other like we are on apolyton then it would be a great place to live.

But since the world's not like that, we don't live there.
We live on Apolyton instead.

[Ben Kenobi]

FYI, for the future, save the picture as .gif or .jpg then the [ img] [ /img] tags will work with the link you have.

How do I do that in MSPaint? The only file extension they will let me save is .bmp

[cavebear]

".bmp" is the default extention, but if you click on the arrow to the right of the "save as type" box, it will offer alternatives. "jpg" is a good choice for both file compression and universal compatibility.

[Ben Kenobi]

".bmp" is the default extention, but if you click on the arrow to the right of the "save as type" box,

I'm not totally computer illiterate.

That was the first thing I tried. There are four different states that I can select:

Monochrome, 16 colours, 256 colours, or 16-bit, all .BMP

[cavebear]

Originally posted by obiwan18


I'm not totally computer illiterate.

That was the first thing I tried. There are four different states that I can select:

Monochrome, 16 colours, 256 colours, or 16-bit, all .BMP

Sorry, it's always hard to guess what other people know. This is what I see when I go to file extention choices:

[Sparrowhawk]

And here is what I get, different for every computer perhaps? Possibly that for whatever reason, Obiwan can't save as Jpg? (as he said)

[Ben Kenobi]

That's why I winked.

I'm using Windows ME, could that be the source of the difference?