From: "Pavlos" <trash24379 AT usa DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Allegro Grabber question
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:17:12 +0300
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Well, no, grabber will not do this if it's working fine. Normally, you would
 be able to see a menu, the left list box, the right gray area plus some
other
dialog objects. I never had problems with the grabber and I can't tell why
you
get this. Did you compile the grabber by making Allegro? Did you make it
for DJGPP or maybe MSVC?

Also, you can try running the grabber in a different depth and resolution.
Maybe another color depth/resolution will work.

<from allegro/tools/grabber.txt>
>By default, the grabber will run in a 640x480 resolution, using the highest
>color depth possible on your graphics card. If you want to override this,
>you can specify an alternative color depth or resolution on the
commandline,
>eg. "grabber -8" for a 256 color mode, "grabber -16" for 16 bit hicolor
>graphics, "grabber -320x200" to use VGA mode 13h, or "grabber 1024x768".
>Warning: editing datafiles that contain truecolor graphics is very slow in
>256 color video modes, and the grabber is not really usable in resolutions
>lower than 640x400.

Hope it'll work
Pavlos


Kyle Stamper wrote in message <37A52170 DOT 40FC6D66 AT geocities DOT com>...
>I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask this question, but here
>goes. I don't think the allegro grabber tool works for me. When I run
>it, all I get is the right half of the screen grey and the other half
>white; no mouse, no menus, nothing. Sometimes if I move the mouse around
>just right, I'll get a vertical black line to appear that goes all the
>way accross the screen and will follow the mouse for a little ways and
>then vanish. Is this what the program is supposed to do? If so, I don't
>know how to use it. Anyone else had a problem like this or know how I
>might fix this?
>
> Kyle