Re: Hotkeys to Snapz Pro or Grab
Re: Hotkeys to Snapz Pro or Grab
- Subject: Re: Hotkeys to Snapz Pro or Grab
- From: Barry Wainwright <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:09:14 +0000
This will get a screen grab without using either Snapz Pro or Grab:
set tempDirectory to POSIX path of (path to temporary items from user
domain)
set inputFile to tempDirectory & "screencapture.pdf"
do shell script "screencapture -i " & inputFile
If required, the PDF file can be converted to a png file with this script:
set outputFile to tempDirectory & "screencapture.png"
tell application "Image Events"
set theImage to open file (inputFile as string)
save theImage as PNG in file outputFile without icon
close theImage
end tell
Other options for screencapture are:
usage: screencapture [-icmwsWx] [file]
-i capture screen interactively, by selection or window
control key - causes screen shot to go to clipboard
space key - toggle between mouse selection and
window selection modes
escape key - cancels interactive screen shot
-c force screen capture to go to the clipboard
-m only capture the main monitor, undefined if -i is set
-w only allow window selection mode
-s only allow mouse selection mode
-W start interaction in window selection mode
-x do not play sounds
-S in window capture mode, capture the screen not the window
file where to save the screen capture
Obviously, this doesn't do video capture.
Snapz Pro is scriptable - up to a point. It has 2 commands: 'invoke' to
bring the capture palette up, and 'capture' to grab an image of the screen.
Grab doesn't appear to have any dictionary at all.
--
Barry
> From: Matthew <email@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:32:03 -0500
> To: <email@hidden>
> Subject: Hotkeys to Snapz Pro or Grab
>
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to be able to send hotkey combinations like Cmd-Shift-3, or
> any other combination for that matter to Snapz Pro X to stop video
> recording or use a similar key combination to invoke screen capture,
> open Grab, etc. I'm not so much interested in working around this
> (unless it's by programatically sending keystrokes) as I am actually
> using AppleScript to do it for me.
>
> Here's what I've tried, and I'm running Panther.
>
> tell application "System Events"
> keystroke "3" using {shift down, command down}
> end tell
>
>
> Ok, so that obviously didn't work, although intuitively I thought it
> would. I also tried a variation where I nested a "tell process "Snapz
> Pro X" inside the "tell application" but that didn't work either, and I
> really didn't expect it to.
>
> Is the problem that I'm not supposed to be sending this to "System
> Events" or that AppleScript just can't do this? I read in the Snapz Pro
> docs that they registered their hotkeys to be intercepted and processed
> down on the Carbon level, but I'm not sure if that's relevant?
>
> If you don't have Snapz Pro X, could someone comment on how to get
> something like Grab to invoke via using a hotkey combination
> Cmd-Shift-4 by applescript sending they keystrokes (or any other
> programatically way of doing it)?
>
> If this isn't possible, has anyone else had to work around it before?
> I've been looking in CarbonEvents.h a bit.
>
> Matthew
>
>
>
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