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1) I need to show two dialog boxes together to indicate a relationship.
2) Some element of the dialog box, like a drop-down menu, expands
outside the boundaries of the dialog box.
My solution is to capture the two screens separately and merge them in a
photoeditor, like Adobe Photoshop or Jasc Paintshop Pro, etc. I use a
screen capture utility to make the initial captures--and could likely
also use it (SnagIT) to merge the two captures, I have just never tried.
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Cheesy ASCII art? Yeah, bin there, dun that . . .. <g>
-----Original Message-----
From: dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com [mailto:dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com]
Bill Swallow wrote:
>
> ...capture the
> windows seperately and build a layered look in whatever image
> manipulation program you're using.
>From the message, it sounded like specialized software was off the
table, so I tried to limit solutions to the freebies: Paint and the
PrintScreen key.
> ...only capture the
> active window, as the inactive one isn't demanding immediate attention
> and can be shown and documented when it is active during the
procedure.
Sometimes it's valuable to show the relationship between windows. For
example, say you were showing a first-time computer user what a tool tip
(or What's This help) looks like--layering them, so that the tip pane
was offset a little, would help make it clear that it isn't part of the
underlying application window.
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