.BSV Screen Grabber TSR i

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 02-14-93 (06:58)             Number: 373
From: WALT MAYO                    Refer#: NONE
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Subj: .BSV Screen Grabber TSR i      Conf: (2) Quik_Bas

Well...maybe I can finally contribute something around
here. I *badly* needed a .BSV or ANSI screen grabber and
came up with this simple little brainstorm. Why not put a
quick BSAVE routine in a PowerBasic TSR? And...sooo...I
simply strung together a couple of samples of code from the
PB manual and disk and made
BSVGRAB.BAS. The amazing thing to me is that the da*n thing works!

It *really* needs some additional code, error-trapping for existing files and
such. If anyone would be willing to dress it up and re-
post, I would be most grateful.

In the code below, it assumes you're saving the files in a
directory called C:\ZDIR, so make any changes you need.
Also...make sure you don't have an existing file or it will
crash. It also assumes you're in standard text mode, 16
color, 80x25. I'm sure you could change things to make it
more versatile.

BSVGRAB seems to work OK even in the DesqView environment (most of the time).

Use at your own risk.


'***********************************************************************
'* PopUp .BSV Screen Capture Routine
'* Walt Mayo 1993, 1:3627/101    DATA:803-650-8315    VOICE:803-650-0140
'* PowerBasic 3.0
'* This file seems to work great in most situations.
'* It does need some error-trapping added for existing files, so beware.
'* *********************************************************************

$COMPILE EXE                  ' this tells PB to make a standalone EXE
$LIB IPRINT OFF        ' allow graphic characters to print
$OPTION CNTLBREAK OFF       ' not wise in a tsr

x& = SETMEM(-700000)          ' release unused memory

POPUP KEY CHR$(8,30,247)      ' ALT A is the hot key

POPUP MULTIPLEX &HC000, 254   ' reg AX and DX get this pattern as an ID
REG 1, &HC000 : REG 4, 254    ' set pattern to check for already installed
CALL INTERRUPT &H2F           ' do the multiplex interrrupt
IF REG(1)<>&HC000 AND REG(4)<>254 THEN END 'we were already installed

SwapFile$ = LEFT$(CURDIR$,2)+"\ASCTSR.SWP"

PRINT "PopUp .BSV grabber available as ALT-A"
REG 1, &HC001 : REG 4, 252  ' Alter AX,DX to show we were here
POPUP SLEEP USING EMS, SwapFile$       ' before going to sleep

WHILE 1=1
  x% = POS : y% = CSRLIN
  DEF SEG = &hB800
  SaveScreen$ = PEEK$(0,4000) ' save the entire screen
  IF REG(1)=&HC000 AND REG(4)=254 THEN
    LOCATE 12,20
    PRINT "ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿";

    LOCATE 13,20
    PRINT "³    BSVGRAB is already installed     ³";
    LOCATE 14,20
    PRINT "ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ";
  ELSE
    GOSUB GrabBSV
  END IF
  a$ = INPUT$(1)                               'wait for key to cancel
  POKE$ 0, SaveScreen$ :  LOCATE y%, x%        'restore screen
  IF UCASE$(A$)="Q" THEN IF POPUP(1) THEN END  'this uninstalls us
  REG 1, &HC001 : REG 4, 252  ' Alter AX,DX to show we were here
  POPUP SLEEP                 ' before going to sleep
WEND

GrabBSV:

DEF SEG = &HB800
BSAVE "c:\zdir\axax.bsv", 0, 4000
LOCATE 1, 1
COLOR 14, 2
PRINT "                                              ";
LOCATE 1, 1
INPUT " Enter desired name for file: ", NewName$
NAME "c:\zdir\axax.bsv" as "c:\zdir\" + NewName$
LOCATE 1, 1
COLOR 15, 3
PRINT " Press Q to remove BSVGRAB, any other key to continue "
'DEF SEG
RETURN

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