Screen Capture Help

[kungsangun]

What I'am trying to do is capture a section of the screen everytime the user clicks an active object and save the capture to a relative directory based on Appdrive$+Appdir$ with a consecutivly numbered filename.
I must not be setting this up correctly. I don't get any files saved. Nothing seems to happen. Would someone please put together a quick example for me?

Thanks

[kungsangun]

OK I've gotten it to capture to a directory but haven't gotten it to increment the filename..
Also..and this is a biggie...
It doesn't seem to be able to capture the DRAW OBJECT!!!
Can someone verify this for me please?

[MechatheSlag]

The file size is huge because it's a .bmp.

[xyzzy]

i can get it to capture the draw object, but said object should probably have save/load image actions

i usually don't bother with the included incrementing (ie i haven't tried using it yet); i usually just do it myself since i have more control of it that way:

User clicks on "Object" with left button
--> Screen Capture - Set filename: Apppath$ + "whatever" + str$(Global Value A) + ".bmp"
--> Screen Capture - Capture frame area
--> Add to Global Value A: 1

[kungsangun]

I WISH the draw object had save/load image actions...but since it doesn't I have to "fake it" with the screen capture. But I just can't get it to capture the draw object.

xyzzy, I like your method for incremental saves but that would only work within each execution of the program unless saved in a config.ini I guess. Would you please post a working test with the draw object in the archive for me if you have one working that I can compare to what I'am doing wrong please?

Thanks for the replys..

[xyzzy]

I WISH the draw object had save/load image actions...but since it doesn't I have to "fake it" with the screen capture. But I just can't get it to capture the draw object.

xyzzy, I like your method for incremental saves but that would only work within each execution of the program unless saved in a config.ini I guess. Would you please post a working test with the draw object in the archive for me if you have one working that I can compare to what I'am doing wrong please?

Thanks for the replys..

i did a quick test and it looks like you'll have to use an INI anyway... and if you do, using a global value for it would probably be easier

i'll just post the example here since it's mainly just a test right now

it doesn't increment or anything, it's just to see if you can get the image to save

[kungsangun]

May I email you a link to a zip file of my project? Your example works perfectly but my project is "resistant"! I don't want to post it publicly.

Thanks

[xyzzy]

May I email you a link to a zip file of my project? Your example works perfectly but my project is "resistant"! I don't want to post it publicly.

Thanks

sure

[kungsangun]

Thanks for you time!
Email sent to the yahoo.com address

[xyzzy]

yeah i see what's doing it:

on the Save Button Clicked event, you should replace the "start automatic capture" action with the "capture frame area"

automatic capture is used for things like capturing an animation sequence and exporting separate frames