How do you take a window screenshot?

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How do you take a window screenshot? Running Xojo 2025 under MacOS
Tahoe. Actually, I want the entire display, not just a specific window.

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Command-Shift-3 and search the file in the Documents folder (Cmmand-Shift-D or in a Finder’s Menu).

Please, the next time use Google:
Apple Tahoe: How do you take a screenshot ?

(this will gives you between others Apple Support.

THERE ARE MANY OTHER WAYS TO MAKE SCREEN SHOTS.

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From a shell:

screencapture ~/Desktop/screenshot.png

Or if you want it on the clipboard:

screencapture -c

Or you can use plugins from MBS to do it all internally and get a picture object.

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To take a picture of the whole screen:

  • Press Command-Shift-3

To take a screenshot of a window:

  • Press Command-Shift-4
  • Press Spacebar
  • Click on the window.

To take a picture of a window, without the fading surround:

  • Press Command-Shift-4
  • Press Spacebar
  • Hold Command-Option and click on the window.

To take a picture of a sheet window:

  • Press Command-Shift-4
  • Press Space
  • Hold Command key down
  • Click the sheet window.

To take a picture of a menu.

  • Click the menu to open it
  • Do not put the mouse over the menu, unless you want one of the menus highligted.
  • Press Command-Shift-4
  • Press Spacebar
  • Click on the window.

In each case the screenshot will appear on your desktop as a png file, after a short delay.
Light menus will come out with the wrong background colour.

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You forget the “Place the copy in the Clipboard”.

Also Cmd-Shift-5 exists, but only on PowerBooks who have a display screen (instead of Fn Keys) above the keyboard top…

And, yes, my answer was incomplete (on purpose), and I gave a link to the complete answer, by Apple. (Apple inline documentation).

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You didn’t answer the question. They asked for a window screenshot, you provided an entire screen.

Command-Shift-5 exists on all machines. It allows you to also take a video of the screen or a part of it.

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I’m guessing the OP is asking how to do it programmatically, as answered by @Jared_Feder

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Perhaps. I typically do it for documentation.