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screencapture

11 Jun 2006 (Updated 12 Jun 2006)

No BSD License

small utility to capture screen programatically

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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
MATLAB release	MATLAB 7 (R14)

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Comments and Ratings (10)
14 Jun 2006	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.
25 Feb 2007	Jo Bergs	Thanks, that's what i needed! Java + Matlab = Awesome
03 Oct 2007	Taner Eskil	Thanks Saurabh, you saved me a ton of time!
21 Dec 2007	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.
20 Feb 2008	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!
28 Feb 2008	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.
04 May 2008	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.
24 Jul 2008	Eli Horn	Exactly what I needed. Thanks!
26 Apr 2009	Siamak Faridani	Great idea and nice implementation
12 May 2009	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?

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saurabh kumar screencapture screenshot printscreen capturescreen	saurabh kumar	22 Oct 2008 08:29:28
saurabh kumar screencapture screenshot printscreen capturescreen	Alan Brewer	12 Aug 2009 10:15:23

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