hwISession CaptureAnimation
Creates a movie file by animating the current page.
Syntax
hwISession_handle CaptureAnimation filetype, filename, [dimension_type, width, height]
Application
HyperWorks Tcl Query
Description
This command uses the current values for options found in the hwIAVIExportOptions or hwIAMFExportOptions object.
Inputs
- filetype
- Indicates the format of the output file. The animated formats can be "avi", "amf", and "gif" (one file contains the entire animation) or "png", "jpeg", "bmp" and "tiff" (a numbered series of still image files comprising the entire animation).
- filename
- The name of the file to be created.
- dimension_type
- Specifies the width and height units of the final animation, which can be in percent
or pixels.Note: If you specify a dimension_type, you MUST specify BOTH width and height (see below).
- width
- The number of width units of the final captured animation.
- height
- The number of height units of the final captured animation.
Example
hwi GetSessionHandle mySessionName
mySessionName GetAVIExportOptionsHandle myAVI
myAVI SetSize 33
myAVI SetPalette reduced
mySessionName CaptureAnimation avi c:/temp/fun.avi
mySessionName CaptureAnimation avi c:/temp/fun_75.avi percent 75 75
mySessionName CaptureAnimation avi c:/temp/fun_1280x960.avi pixels 1280 960
Error
Success (0) or an error code.