Snapshot of a desktop browser

[Traxgeek]

Hi,
Wondering if someone can help me here please ?

I'm trying to take a snapshot of a browser window. On mobile I use the format :

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. . .
      mobileControlSet nBID, "rect", the rect of image "imgBrowser" of group "grpBrowser"
      mobileControlSet nBID, "url", sURL
. . .

and

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export snapshot from rect sTheRectOfTheBrowserImageControl to file (sFilePath & "/" & sFileName) as jpeg

which works perfectly for anything WITHIN my app - both mobile (and desktop in fact - as long as the browser control is within my app).

However, on Desktop platforms I use the

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 launch url sURL

code line to fire up the default browser...

Is there a way to grab a screenshot of the contents of this browser window ? I have no idea how to reference it....

Any thoughts, or maybe, there's a better way / I shouldn't be using an external browser at all... ? ? ? I do hope someone can give me a kick in the right direction please.

Thanks a mil - as always !

Regards,
Trax

[Klaus]

Hi Trax,

Is there a way to grab a screenshot of the contents of this browser window ?

not from within Livecode, I'm afraid!

Maybe you you can create an AppleScript on the Mac, who knows!?
No idea about Win and VBScript or something...


Best

Klaus

[Traxgeek]

Thanks Klaus.
Saved me banging my head against the wall for hours again ! Thanks a million.
Regards,
Trax

[Dixie]

Hi...

You can grab a screenshot of the visible content of a 'browser' built within your stack by using export snapshot...

[ramav]

Hi Traxgeek:
I cannot even get the browser screen capture within my mobile app to work. Could you please provide some more details for your code snippets, specifically
mobileControlSet nBID, "rect", the rect of image "imgBrowser" of group "grpBrowser"
....
export snapshot from rect sTheRectOfTheBrowserImageControl to file (sFilePath & "/" & sFileName) as jpeg
.....

Does sTheRectOfTheBrowserImagecontgrol refer to the rect of image "imgBrowser" of group "grpBrowser"? Specifically, what does it expand to? Am I missing something? Thanks a bunch in advance...

[MaxV]

This works:

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import snapshot from rectangle (the rect of widget "browser")

however use it correct window/widget coordinates