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Re: AD Picture saving

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From: Ephraim Vishniac
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 17:35
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In article <26589@castle.ed.ac.uk> barryb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Barry A T Brown) writes:
>Sorry if this question has been asked before but does anyone
>know how to save a screenshot of a AD screensaver in such
>a way that AD isn't disturbed?  I was wanting to produce
>T'shirts of a sequence of AD shots but if I try and save
>the screen using the built in Fkey it disturbes AD and puts
>you back into the finder.

Here's my idea:

Write an AD module which does nothing to the screen, but patches
_Postevent to filter keypresses. Upon seeing the key you've picked, it
loads and executes the FKEY 3 code. Then, use Multimodule in After
Dark to combine the picture-taking module with the one you want to
take pictures of. Now when you run the combined module, you can click
away. 

Anybody care to write this? Shouldn't take more than an hour or so. 

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