Paint not recognizing webcam?

After months of not finding a half decent webcam app that is offline that allows me to take the occasional picture, I find out that Microsoft paint apparrently can do this.
Problem is, when i hit the file menu, the "from scanner or camera" menu is disabled, even after re-enabling the webcam. help?

*edit*
apparently that's only if you already have an application displaying output from the webcam.
is there a single simple application that allows you to take a picture directly from your webcam and save it to your hard drive, with no futzing with ftp and all that crap?
there is a billion apps to stream your webcam or whatever, but seems like nothing that will turn your webcam into a camera in a pinch.

And yeah I problably won't use it, but it still would ne nice to have in emergencies.

kinda like cameroid.com, but without all of the effects and as an offline app.
Or a port of Cheese, a GNOME photobooth clone.

Don't know of any apps right off, but in a pinch you could hit PrtScn to copy the desktop to the clipboard/paste into paint and crop to the pic. I'm shocked that taking a snap shot is not a common thing in these apps. Would think all of them could do it.

Works on my laptop.

garysgold said:

Works on my laptop.

Probably he means that it takes a picture of your desktop, not i.e your face. Anyways, Cheese (sadly) isnt available for Windows, since they support open-source. I kinda hope they dont make it for Windows, so people would see the light

I'm currently attempting to install Cheese via cygwin, but I give it a 1:1,000,000 chance of working, because Cheese is not in the default download repository and I'm figuring out how to include it.

Fortunately I have played with Linux before So I think I can do it With the help of my trusty sidekick, Google.

IceFire said:

I'm currently attempting to install Cheese via cygwin, but I give it a 1:1,000,000 chance of working, because Cheese is not in the default download repository and I'm figuring out how to include it.

Fortunately I have played with Linux before So I think I can do it With the help of my trusty sidekick, Google.

So, if its ok with you, you can install ubuntu, and just download it from synaptic or

sudo apt-get install cheese

BugMeister said:

paint only allows you to download pictures from a scanner or from a camera's memory
it doesn't allow you to watch the webcam's live screen, which is what you want (?)

most webcams have a button on them to take snaps - my Logitech Webcam Pro 9000 allows you to take instant snaps, and files them straight away into their own folder..

what webcam have you got..?

Most = New ones. I've never seen a webcam with a button like that.