screen capture utility
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Can anyone recommend a screen capture utility for a game I'm writing? Thanks. |
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whats wrong with apple+shift+3? this takes a snapshot of the whole screen (should leave the pic on the desktop/pictures folder) or shift+apple+4 lets you take a pic of a part of the screen using the mouse. or the grab program found in \applications\utilities cheers charlie |
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... or if you want (a paid for) utility with all the bells and whistles try Snapz Pro http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/ I have used it successfully for a long time. Richard. |
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what does snapz do that grab doesnt then? |
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After pressing Apple+shift+4, press Space and the cursor changes to a camera and you can take a snapshot of just the window under the cursor (the window highlights). However, I seem to remember that I once had a problem using the built-in capture keys to capture a window using OpenGL. Perhaps an overlay was being used. I also have used SnapzProX (it came with my powerbook, so was free :), and it does lots that grab doesn't (see the web site). |
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I put the game in windowed mode and did a Apple+shift+3. Thanks for the input. |
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Is it possible to do this programmatically? Like if I wanted to make a screensaver like the old dog one. Take a screen shot of the current screen, switch to graphics mode and load it, and then do what I want to the screen. Just curious.. Thanks, Alex |
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The only thing I don't like about the apple-shift-3/4 thing in osX is that they now changed it to create a PDF file of the snapshot. This is highly annoying when you want it to be an image - gotta load up graphic converter or the like, or export it as an image, etc... longwinded. |
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PDF file? I just paste it into Appleworks Draw and export as JPG or PNG, whatever format you prefer. |
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Or you can open it in the default Preview app and choose Export. It gives me the following format choices for saving : BMP, JP2, JPEG, MacPaint, Photoshop, PICT, PNG, QuickTime Image, SGI, TGA and Tiff I was annoyed at first with the PDF issue, but am happy enough to do an export with Preview now.. :o) |