[How To] Getting desktop screenshot

[ciskuzzo 0]

Hello guys,

really new here. I think this forum section is the correct one for my issue.

My goal is building a bot to get screenshot of desktop or even better of single windows at fixed hours...let's say every two hours.

Is it possible with AutoIt? If yes, any suggestions?

Thank you very much.

Francesco

[Negative1 0]

Hello guys,

really new here. I think this forum section is the correct one for my issue.

My goal is building a bot to get screenshot of desktop or even better of single windows at fixed hours...let's say every two hours.

Is it possible with AutoIt? If yes, any suggestions?

Thank you very much.

Francesco

Hi Francesco,

Welcome to the forums and Autoit.

I recommend you go to the help file index and look up _ScreenCapture_Capture

_ScreenCapture_Capture

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Captures a region of the screen

#Include <ScreenCapture.au3>

_ScreenCapture_Capture([$sFileName = ""[, $iLeft = 0[, $iTop = 0[, $iRight = -1[, $iBottom = -1[, $fCursor = True]]]]]])

Parameters

$sFileName Full path and extension of the image file

$iLeft X coordinate of the upper left corner of the rectangle

$iTop Y coordinate of the upper left corner of the rectangle

$iRight X coordinate of the lower right corner of the rectangle. If this is -1, the current screen

width will be used.

$iBottom Y coordinate of the lower right corner of the rectangle. If this is -1, the current screen

height will be used.

$fCursor If True the cursor will be captured with the image

[ciskuzzo 0]

Yes i found them, thank you.

Is there any other command to let it repeat every 2 hours?

[Negative1 0]

Yes i found them, thank you.

Is there any other command to let it repeat every 2 hours?

while 1

_ScreenCapture_Capture()

sleep(7200000) ;7.2million milliseconds = 2 hours

wend

This is seudocode but i think you can figure it out from here

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[ciskuzzo 0]

Cool, i already run it and works, but i figured out that it write the screenshot file on the previous one. While i need a list of screenshot.

[Negative1 0]

You will need to put a variable in the file name that you write to.

"Screenshot" & $x

$x = $x + 1

autoit will treat Screenshot & $x as:

Screenshot1

Screenshot2

Screenshot3

[ciskuzzo 0]

#include <ScreenCapture.au3>

; Capture region

_ScreenCapture_Capture([$sFileName = "Screenshot" & $x

$x = $x + 1] & $x @MyDocumentsDir & "\Screenshot.jpg", 0, 0, 796, 596)

while 1

_ScreenCapture_Capture()

sleep(7200000) ;7.2million milliseconds = 2 hours

wend

I think now i did some errors... lol

[Negative1 0]

#include <ScreenCapture.au3>

$x = 0

while 1
$x = $x + 1
_ScreenCapture_Capture(@MyDocumentsDir & "\Screenshot" & $x & ".jpg" , 0, 0, 796, 596)

sleep(7200000) ;7.2million milliseconds = 2 hours

wend

It's untested but give it a try

[darkjohn20 0]

Why not use AdlibRegister (in Beta) or AdlibEnable (in regular)? I believe that's better than a big sleep?

Edited April 12, 2010 by darkjohn20

[ciskuzzo 0]

Amazing it worked! I tried it with time range 2 seconds and worked fine!

I'm very thankful for your effort!

PS! Since i'm using AC Tool software just to refresh the window i need to screen capture, are you able to add at that Autoit script the refresh option every 2hours?

This is the logic: Take the screenshot first and then refresh. Time range is always 2 hours for taking screenshot and for refreshing but taking screenshot must comes 1 second earlier than refresh.

If it is hard i could continue using that other sfotware.

Thanks in any case!!

[Melba23 2,654]

darkjohn20,

AdlibRegister (in Beta) or AdlibEnable (in regular)

Time for you to update!

The current "Release" (v3.3.6.0) uses AdlibRegister - the previous release (v3.3.4.0) dispatched "AdlibEnable" to the great Recycle Bin in the sky..... And we have no "Beta" at the moment.

M23

[darkjohn20 0]

Oh my...I guess it is time.

[ciskuzzo 0]

This is the logic: Take the screenshot first and then refresh. Time range is always 2 hours for taking screenshot and for refreshing but taking screenshot must comes 1 second earlier than refresh.

If it is hard i could continue using that other sfotware.

Thanks in any case!!

Anyone can help me on this?

[Negative1 0]

Anyone can help me on this?

I'm not familar with the software you are using to "refresh" the window. However if you are click a button to refresh the window start autoit window info tool (included with the autoit download package) and hover the mouse over the button. Press Ctrl+Alt+F to freeze the window info tool. Then click the tab "Control Info" if there is a number beside "control ID" you can use the command controlclick() to click the button using autoit.

good luck

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