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Screen Capture Button possible ?

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stuartrozier

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Nov 12, 2011
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Hello,

i know theirs a screen capture shortcut for the keyboard, but is their a way of placing a command, terminal script, button, something i keep in the dock, and 'one press' ... it'll capture the screen ?

many thanks

stuart
 
stuartrozier said:
Hello,

i know theirs a screen capture shortcut for the keyboard, but is their a way of placing a command, terminal script, button, something i keep in the dock, and 'one press' ... it'll capture the screen ?

many thanks

stuart
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Command, shift, 3 for screen capture.
Command, shift, 4 for a snip tool capture.
Easy to do without terminal etc.
 
Apple fanboy said:
Command, shift, 3 for screen capture.
Command, shift, 4 for a snip tool capture.
Easy to do without terminal etc.
Click to expand...

Hello, thanks for quick reply- yeah the keyboard shortcuts are good.

but im tryin to find if thier is a way of placing a button in the dock, that'll do the same thing if you just 'click it' ? ...

basically, I don't want to use the keyboard,

thanks
 
stuartrozier said:
Hello,

i know theirs a screen capture shortcut for the keyboard, but is their a way of placing a command, terminal script, button, something i keep in the dock, and 'one press' ... it'll capture the screen ?

many thanks

stuart
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Sure... paste this Applescript into the Applescript Editor and save it as an application then put the app in your Dock or wherever you want. Then when you run the app it will bring up the select reticule for you. The screenshot will go to your desktop and increment up each time. Like picture_1 picture_2 etc.

If you look over the man page for the screen capture command here you can see how to tweak the behavior by changing that -i section.

Code: 
property N : 0
set N to N + 1
set picPath to ((POSIX path of (path to desktop)) & "Picture_" & N & ".png") as string
do shell script "screencapture -i " & quoted form of picPath
 
Would you like this ?

Here

This is a small app (Applescript), put it in your Applications folder, drag it to the Dock.
I have used the icon of OS X native "Capture".

To take a screen shot, just click on the icon in the Dock.

The screen shot will be saved on the Desktop, you could change the destination by editing the script if you want.

Edit : Hi Weaselboy, I didn't see you had already replied, as I was making the app...
 
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Weaselboy said:
Sure... paste this Applescript into the Applescript Editor and save it as an application then put the app in your Dock or wherever you want. Then when you run the app it will bring up the select reticule for you. The screenshot will go to your desktop and increment up each time. Like picture_1 picture_2 etc.

If you look over the man page for the screen capture command here you can see how to tweak the behavior by changing that -i section.

Code: 
property N : 0
set N to N + 1
set picPath to ((POSIX path of (path to desktop)) & "Picture_" & N & ".png") as string
do shell script "screencapture -i " & quoted form of picPath
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sweet ! I'll give it a shot ...
this is exactly what I meant ...

thankyou
 
Weaselboy said:
Sure... paste this Applescript into the Applescript Editor and save it as an application then put the app in your Dock or wherever you want. Then when you run the app it will bring up the select reticule for you. The screenshot will go to your desktop and increment up each time. Like picture_1 picture_2 etc.

If you look over the man page for the screen capture command here you can see how to tweak the behavior by changing that -i section.

Code: 
property N : 0
set N to N + 1
set picPath to ((POSIX path of (path to desktop)) & "Picture_" & N & ".png") as string
do shell script "screencapture -i " & quoted form of picPath
Click to expand...


have tried, tested - is exactly what i want, so thank you - have looked on the page with all the codes too, which of the codes will take a screen capture of the full page and save it automatically ? ... and if their is one, will it possible to change the save directory ? - maybe pictures folder? or a custom folder ?

thank you again
 
stuartrozier said:
have tried, tested - is exactly what i want, so thank you - have looked on the page with all the codes too, which of the codes will take a screen capture of the full page and save it automatically ? ... and if their is one, will it possible to change the save directory ? - maybe pictures folder? or a custom folder ?

thank you again
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Sure no problem. The -m flag there will take the whole screen and the new path I put there will put it in your Pictures folder. You need to change where I have yourusername to your real user name.

Code: 
property N : 0
set N to N + 1
set picPath to ("/Users/yourusername/Pictures/" & "Picture_" & N & ".png") as string
do shell script "screencapture -m " & quoted form of picPath
 
Weaselboy said:
Sure no problem. The -m flag there will take the whole screen and the new path I put there will put it in your Pictures folder. You need to change where I have yourusername to your real user name.

Code: 
property N : 0
set N to N + 1
set picPath to ("/Users/yourusername/Pictures/" & "Picture_" & N & ".png") as string
do shell script "screencapture -m " & quoted form of picPath
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ask a question,

get a straight answer ...

your answers and response time has been amazing, don't want to blow your trumpet - but wish their should be more like you on here

much appreciated
 
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