Printing Screen Snapshots in FoxPro for Macintosh (112184)

SYMPTOMS

In FoxBASE+ for the Macintosh, you can print a screen snapshot by choosing Print from the File menu. However, this functionality is not available in FoxPro for Macintosh.

CAUSE

The File Print command in FoxPro for Macintosh prints text information in a single window only. A screen shot contains graphic images of multiple windows, which cannot be printed through FoxPro for Macintosh. This behavior is by design to ensure cross-platform compatibility in FoxPro, which can be run in either a character- or graphics-based operating system. FoxPro relies on underlying operating system functionality or third-party add-ins in order to print screen shots.

RESOLUTION

To work around this behavior, you can print a screen snapshot using the Macintosh screen snapshot feature, as follows:

With the desired image on the screen, press COMMAND+SHIFT+3. A TeachText PICT file will be created. The first screen snapshot will be named Picture 1; the filename will be incremented by 1 for each successive picture. The file will be created in the root folder of the current default volume (drive).
Return to the desktop and double-click the icon for the screen snapshot. TeachText will open. From the File menu in TeachText, choose Print to print the snapshot.

NOTE: You can also print the snapshot from other applications, such as Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, that support the PICT file format.