screencapture doesnt support multiple monitors?

[gcue]

i am trying to use this function here at work.. in our environment we have a varation of dual, tri, and sometimes quad monitor setups.

; Capture full screen

_ScreenCapture_Capture(@MyDocumentsDir & "\GDIPlus_Image1.jpg")

only captures the active window.. any ideas for workarounds?

thanks

[Bert]

use ctrl+printscreen. Alt+printscreen will get the active window to the clipboard, while Ctrl+printscreen will get everything to the clipboard.

[gcue]

good idea.. problem is that we use printkey and by default that program fires up whenever u press ctrl/alt + printscreen.

any other ideas?

[Bert]

can you disable printkey for the time you are getting your screenshot? It may have command line switches, or you may be able to access the icon in the system tray to disable it while you do what you need.

[MrCreatoR]

only captures the active window.

Well, _ScreenCapture_Capture uses GetSystemMetrics if Right/Bottom is -1, try to set these parameters by your self...

_ScreenCapture_Capture(@MyDocumentsDir & "\GDIPlus_Image1.jpg", 0, 0, @DesktopWidth, @DesktopHeight)

[gcue]

i tried putting in those values.. no dice.

could it be that @desktopheight/@desktopwidth only take the values of the main monitor?

[MrCreatoR]

could it be that @desktopheight/@desktopwidth only take the values of the main monitor?

Thats could be the reason, yes.

[gcue]

nice try though. anything else you could think of?

i tried exactly what you put

_ScreenCapture_Capture(@MyDocumentsDir & "\GDIPlus_Image1.jpg", 0, 0, @DesktopWidth, @DesktopHeight)

that should be the right values right? topmost , leftmost, width, height

[gcue]

im trying to play with this script and get something that works (im runnning it on remote machines within our domain):

sometimes the script works and i get a screenshot out of it sometimes i dont.. im running the clipboard application on the remote machine to monitor what happens on the clipboard and i think its not working because of a clipboard issue - a screenshot for some reason, isnt getting to the clipboard sometimes

id like to use send("{printscreen}") so i can a screenshot of multiple monitors > how can i pipe it into a file wout having to use screencapture?

ClipPut("")

;_ClipBoard_Open(0)

;_ClipBoard_Empty()

;_ClipBoard_Close()

;Send("^{PRINTSCREEN}")

Send("{ALT}{PRINTSCREEN}")

_ClipBoard_Open(0) ; open clipboard is associated with the current task

$hBitmap = _ClipBoard_GetData(2) ; $CF_BITMAP

_ScreenCapture_SaveImage(@ScriptDir & "\" & @ComputerName & "_" & $filename & ".jpg", $hBitmap)

_ClipBoard_Close()

[tehdon]

i am trying to use this function here at work.. in our environment we have a varation of dual, tri, and sometimes quad monitor setups.

; Capture full screen

_ScreenCapture_Capture(@MyDocumentsDir & "\GDIPlus_Image1.jpg")

only captures the active window.. any ideas for workarounds?

thanks

Not a big fan of bumping up a 2+ year old topic, but I ran into this same issue today and found a decent workaround.

I found that calling the function in the following method allow the entire desktop to be captured.

_ScreenCapture_Capture($capFullPath,0,0,@DesktopWidth+@DesktopWidth,@DesktopHeight,True)

The above will work if the primary display is farthest left, there are exactly two displays, and both have identical height and width attributes. Or in other words, is set up identical to how my workstation is setup at the moment

There's probably a good method of identifying all of those attributes and passing in the parameters accordingly.

[Ascend4nt]

This will get the full virtual screen width and height. Keep in mind that monitors with varying resolutions will return the maximum height for these values. The width returned is all monitor widths combined... unless somehow the monitors are stacked vertically which would make the situation the opposite I suppose.

;SM_CXVIRTUALSCREEN = 78
$iVScrWidth=_WinAPI_GetSystemMetrics(78)
;SM_CYVIRTUALSCREEN = 79
$iVScrHeight=_WinAPI_GetSystemMetrics(79)

[norry]

Thanks for the hints, I ended up doing it this way

$desktopSize = WinGetPos("Program Manager")

_ScreenCapture_Capture(@DesktopDir & "\Desktop.jpg",0,0,$desktopSize[2],$desktopSize[3],True)

[water]

I once downloaded this script and it works fine for my dual monitor environment.

Edited September 24, 2010 by water