Tooltip mugshot
01:10 Saturday 19 May 07
This wasn’t straightforward on Windows and it seems to be as tricky on os x.
I need to get a screencap of a title tag in action. I’ve googled and tried the apple forums, Grab doesn’t work for tooltips, and as soon as you touch a key for a screencap the title tooltip disappears. Any ideas?
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This gives you two options as I see it: Grab’s Timed Screen (open Grab, go to Capture in the menu bar and hit timed screen or just hit Cmd+Shift+Z), but if that doesn’t work (you said Grab fails), you can try opening terminal and typing this:
sleep 10; screencapture ~/Desktop/screenshot.pngWhere 10 = the number of seconds you want it to wait before capture and the ~/Desktop… bit is file name and where you want to save. You’ll hear the normal screenshot noise when it snaps the picture. Of course, you’ll probably want to Hide the terminal before taking the screenshot, and that’s a simple Cmd+H, if you didn’t already know.
04:30 Saturday 19 May 07
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Bingo! The terminal command does the trick.
Grab turned the cursor into a little camera.
But the command is good – need to wait a few seconds after entering it because the tootip only stays for a few seconds, but I do have it :)
Thanks!
10:06 Saturday 19 May 07
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The following worked for me (no terminal-fu needed):
1. Mouseover to make your title box pop up.
2. While still over the link, do shift+cmd+4
3. Select what you want, or hit space to do the camera-whole window thing
4. Take the capture, the title popup goes but is on the captured pic
Interesting to see you say that the title disappears when you hit any of the keys for the capture – I just used this method (in Safari) to cap the ‘view all Mac Mini’ title on your front page :)
10:31 Saturday 19 May 07
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There is a use for Safari :)
That worked perfectly. I was using – as always – Firefox.
I knew you guys would have the answer!
10:35 Saturday 19 May 07