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How does the Print Screen key work?

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Mar 15, 20265012 views

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I want to know how the Print Screen key works. This is useful to take a snap of the current screen, but how does is this possible? Is there software that run and take a snap when print screen key is been pressed? If so what are they? Can anyone help me in the behind scenes of this process?

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Specifically how it works is implementation-dependent, but in many cases the framebuffer holds whatever is currently being displayed on the screen, so the simplest way to make a screenshot is just to take that chunk of memory and write it to a file.…

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How does the Print Screen key work?

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