From: Harry <ruby.hardware@...>
Date: 2007-03-12T20:35:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Print screen with win32api

On 3/12/07, Emil Sandin <esandin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have seen this question on several locations, but no solution to it. I
> want to capture the screen on windows xp. I know that you can do it with
> rmagick, but that seems to be for unix-systems only, and rubycocoa for
> mac. Since there is a "print screen"-button on the keyboard, I guess
> that it should be possible to use win32api to fake a klick on the
> keyboard button, and then somehow save the image to disk.
>
> Any ideas?
> Regards
> Emil


I haven't tested this particular command but you should be able to do
it with AutoIt.
You can script AutoIt via Ruby.

Here are some commands.
Printscreen is listed.

http://tiger.la.asu.edu/Quick_Ref/AutoIt_quickref.pdf

Harry
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