Screen Capture Button possible ?

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

 

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

 

Ninja'd

Glad it helped you out. I really enjoy trying to figure out these tricks with Applescript. Is really is amazing what you do with it.