Macluskie Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Hi I've looked around for an answer but cant find one so seeking the help of you lovely people I'm writing tutorials for my students on an iMac and VW2013 Whenever I use the Command, Shift, 4 screengrab key combo the menus in Vectorworks also show the Command Key Shortcut as soon as the Command Key is depressed making the screengrabs a bit useless. For example here is a link to a "move by points" screen grab Any help to switch off the shortcuts being displayed most gratefully received Thank you Screengrab Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Are you sure you're using Command, Shift 4 (Capture by Marquee) and not Command, Shift 3 (Capture Full Screen)? Once the crosshairs appear after pressing Command, Shift 4 you can let go of the keys you're holding. The shortcuts switch back to text and you can drag around the area you want to capture. KM Quote Link to comment
VincentCuclair Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Nope, same here it's a 2013 thing, still works fine in 2012....... Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Works for me in 2013. Perhaps a workspace keyboard shortcut setting is different? mk Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Works fine in 2013 for me too. KM Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 What's happening is that the command key shows you the keyboard shortcuts on the dialog box. The workaround is to reset your screen shot keys to use a different combination Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Now I see what you mean. If you hit Shift-Command-4 and then release the keys, you can still use the mouse to draw the marquee. Quote Link to comment
Bruce Kieffer Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 (edited) To elaborate on what Jonathan is saying; go to your system prefs, Keyboard, Keyboard shortcuts, Screenshots, 3rd down, select the key combination and change it to something without the command key. Let us know if this works for you. Edited December 22, 2012 by Bruce Kieffer Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 This thread has gotten confusing. If you use Command Shift 4 (Capture by Marquee), release the keys and then drag the crosshair to capture there would normally be no problem. If that's not working, that's a whole different problem. You can certainly change the screen grab key combination on your Mac if you want to, but it shouldn't be necessary to solve the problem in the original example image. Kevin Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Macluskie use the Apple utility Grab instead. The capture result opens in a window which you can then save. With Grab you can capture a: - Selection; - Window; - Screen; or - Timed Screen Note: - The image result is a .tiff file but that shouldn't pose any problems. If it is open it in Preview and Save As a .jpg or .png file. - There are shortcuts for each mode. Quote Link to comment
VincentCuclair Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 (edited) The thing is it works in 2012 but not in 2013 on the same machine with the same settings, why, sure there are work arounds but why is it? Just to be clear the problem is that the original dialog text doesn't reappear when you release the keys ie the screen shot does't represent what you actually see when you initiate the command. Edited December 23, 2012 by Vincent C Quote Link to comment
Macluskie Posted December 23, 2012 Author Share Posted December 23, 2012 (edited) Just did an experiment In 2012, on same machine, when you release the command key after the Command Shift 4 button combo the displayed shortcuts disappear and the menu reverts back to the image I want to capture On 2013, this does not happen, the keyboard shortcuts remain even after the command key is released Thanks for you help folks Looks like a key combo remap is my solution for now Here's a much better example of why its a problem, this screengrab would be used to explain the Create Resource menu...not very useful https://www.dropbox.com/s/juxqnnc8kl113o7/Screen%20Shot%202012-12-23%20at%2010.35.13.png Edited December 23, 2012 by Macluskie Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 The problem is apparent in my v2013 SP2 standard, not-customised workspace. Looks like a bug. Thanks for describing it, Mccluskie. Go for it if you want to report it: http://www.vectorworks.net/support/bugsubmit.php -B Quote Link to comment
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