Screenshots in Mac OS X

[Ned Deily]

In article <22861e2f-50f2-4d74-9024-53caec5570fa at googlegroups.com>,
 Pratik Mehta <pratik.mehta13390 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to write my own Screenshot Taking program in Python for Mac OS X.
> 
> Example : Whenever Command + Shift + 3 is pressed ==> whatever is there on 
> the screen, should be grabbed / captured, and should be stored on my local 
> with my own desired path, and name should automatically given as SnapshotX.. 
> as in Snapshot1, Snapshot2, etc...
> 
> The same goes with Command + Shift + 4 ==> the only difference is that, it 
> allows you to select a particular area to be captured / grabbed.
> 
> Command + Shift + 5 ==> This one is a little bit tricky which I am looking 
> for. This shortcut doesn't exist. I want to create one of my own, where it 
> would grab the entire webpage's screenshot which I am currently working on, 
> and store the name as the webpage's link.

I'm not sure how much what you want to do differs from what OS X already 
provides out of the box but perhaps this reference can give you some ideas:

http://guides.macrumors.com/Taking_Screenshots_in_Mac_OS_X

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org