screendump and e-mail

[RabBell]

I know it's Friday and I hate to ask a work related question but I've had an intresting query and was hoping someone would know a solution.

Is it possible to press print scr and then e-mail the image to someone?

The scenario is I'm in a call centre. The operators on the phones don't have the ability to paste screenshots into an application and they don't have an e-mail account either. An ideal solution would be for the user to press print scrn and then go to a browser based app that will take the screen dump in the buffer and e-mail it to someone. The main problem is they want to e-mail the image from the buffer.

Anyone know of a solution or an application that might help?

[fester8542]

I know it's Friday and I hate to ask a work related question but I've had an intresting query and was hoping someone would know a solution.

Is it possible to press print scr and then e-mail the image to someone?

The scenario is I'm in a call centre. The operators on the phones don't have the ability to paste screenshots into an application and they don't have an e-mail account either. An ideal solution would be for the user to press print scrn and then go to a browser based app that will take the screen dump in the buffer and e-mail it to someone. The main problem is they want to e-mail the image from the buffer.

Anyone know of a solution or an application that might help?

My email lets me. I use both lotus notes and Outlook.

Nevermind, I am an idiot and didnt completely read your post....
I dont know of anything like that

[Hans Kilian]

Print Screen copies the screen to the clipboard. I wouldn't mess with that, since they may need that functionality for something else.

But writing a small program that gets the image from the clipboard, prompts the user for an e-mail address and then mails the image shouldn't be too hard to code. You could then associate the program with an alt-ctrl key combination, so they'd press Print Screen to get the screen in the clipboard and then alt-ctrl-M (for instance) to launch the custom mail program.

It's been a while since I've coded any Delphi, but I think something like that could be done in less than 100 lines of code. Same for VB.

Another - perfectly valid, IMO - option is to install an email client on their machines. There are some pretty good free ones out there. Eudora, for instance... And you don't need to have a mail account to be able to send mails. Only to receive them.

[RabBell]

For reasons of security and cost the operators don't have e-mail addresses. It's been a while since I've done any Delphi as well (5 years) and even longer for VB (7 Years) and I doubt I'd be the one to code the program being one of the intranet/web guys.

You don't happen to know any tutorials or maybe a freeware/shareware application that can do this do you?

By the way associating it with an ALT-CTRL-Key function is smart...I'd never have thought of it. :thumb:

[Jasninder]

well i have an capture utility that might interest u, emailme@jasninder.com and i will reply with that utility.

[RabBell]

well i have an capture utility that might interest u, emailme@jasninder.com and i will reply with that utility.

Did you get my e-mail Jasninder? Sorry if I'm being pushy I know you're busy creating that simpsons theme I'm looking forward to :thumb: