hwISession CaptureScreenByArea
Captures the screen to an image file.
Syntax
hwISession_handle CaptureScreenByArea type, filename, left, top, width, height, (quality)
Application
HyperWorks Tcl
Description
This command captures the screen to an image file. If the inputs for the left, top, width or height cause the image taken to have dimensions bigger than the screen, an error occurs.
Inputs
- type
- The file type that you want to save the captured image as. The different file types include: BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG or saved to the clipboard.
- filename
- The file name that you want to give the captured image.
- left
- The left coordinate of the region to capture, in pixels.
- top
- The top coordinate of the region to capture, in pixels.
- width
- The width of the region to capture, in pixels.
- height
- The height of the region to capture, in pixels.
- (quality) (Optional)
- The level of quality or compression that you want to make the image.
Example
hwi GetSessionHandle sess;
sess CaptureScreenByArea png MyPicture.png 0 0 500 250;
hwi GetSessionHandle sess1
sess1 CaptureScreenByArea "clipboard" E:\Scratch\CaptureScreenAPI_Test 0 0 500 250;Error
Returns success (0) or an error code.
Keywords
HyperWorks
Tcl
Create