Originally posted by wicky
is GRAB supposed to work from from the SERVICES pull down menu in any application? mine doesn't seem to.... and neither does anything else in the services menu. has anybody got any ideas how I might activate it?
yeah, you need to be in an application which can handle pictures.
look, the services - for the most part - are supposed to enhance an app's functionality, so to speak. you don't use grab to make a screenshot and save it to your harddisk. instead, you use grab to include a screenshot in a mail message for example. or into a text document, etc.
do this:
open mail.app.
compose a new message.
go to the services menu and select grab.
grab.app will launch, and a screenshot will be placed in the message.
same goes for most other services, like word.service or calc.service. you select some text and apply the service to the text.
you can only use a service where it makes sense to do so. you can't include a screenshot in a webpage you're viewing, so the grab-service doesn't make sense in - say - omniweb, so you can't use it there. you wouldn't want to in the first place...
look at services as system-wide plug-ins rather than stand-alone apps.
hth
