I have used the screen capture programs SnagIt and Camtasia from my friends at TechSmith for over 10 years now. Screen capturing is an excellent way to communicate something without just relying on words or excellent documenting a process. With the newer software applications being developed these days some like AutoCAD 2009 using XAML are using application frameworks that can be tricky to capture.
When trying to capture or record a single full application window that is using application frames you might find yourself with a small portion of what you wanted to capture or just screen capturing the full desktop and then editing items like the system task menu out which neither are fun.
The trick is it run the application in a minimized window just under full size then select the bottom left corner for the Window capture select.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Shaan
It’s even easier to press the print-screen button while pressing the Alt-button.
This method captures only the active window.
If you want to remove the toolbars on your printscreen, you can activate the cleanscreen-button or -command in autocad (http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2007/06/autocad-cleansc.html).
Thanks for your tips! I’ll keep on reading them in the future!
Jan,
ALT +Print Screen is fine but SnagIt is so very much more than just a image capture.
Cheers,
Shaan