screencapture

small utility to capture screen programatically

Description

if you ever need a screenshot inside a program..here is a small script for you.

• Acknowledgements: This submission has inspired the following:; screen record, getscreen, screenShotRGB: Make a Screenshot using Robot Java Class
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7 (R14)

[Aldo Caraceto]

Really nice idea!
It already gets the goal even if it could be improved further on giving the user the chance to define a limited region of the active window instead of the whole window to export.

[Jo Bergs]

Thanks, that's what i needed!
Java + Matlab = Awesome

[Taner Eskil]

Thanks Saurabh, you saved me a ton of time!

[Tom Clark]

Thanks, exactly what I needed.

If I recommended an improvement, I'd say that it'd be nice to be able to specify e.g. tiff, gif, bmp output too.

[Robert Brookhuis]

That's exactly what I needed!

I changed the code to capture my GUI only by replacing the "t.getScreenSize()" by the "position" property of my GUI (with some modifications). Works fine!

[Richard Chao]

Yes, it's my want exactly.Thank you Saurabh.
I still think why root remove the captureRect/Matrix and change to getframe instead of, and getframe cann't snapshot the root screen (windows/Mas).

btw, Dear Robert Brookhuis, you can use getframe to capture your GUI easily.

[Robert Brookhuis]

@Richard Chao
I used getframe before but sometimes the result was messed up for unknown reason. The method presented here doesn't have this problem.

[Eli Horn]

Exactly what I needed.
Thanks!

[Siamak Faridani]

Great idea and nice implementation

[Roland]

Thanks so much for this!

I was not able to use getframe, since i need to take a screenshot of parts that doesnt belong to Matlab.

On my computer it takes about 0.6 seconds to make a screenshot. is there any way to make that faster?
i guess it is the java loading time, that makes it slow, anyone knows a way how to "quickstart" java?