[python-win32] Creating a screenshot..

Tue, 7 Jan 2003 10:57:11 +1100

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I would also look at PIL from www.pythonware.com - that may have a way of
grabbing the screen into an image.

Later versions of win32all work with more clipboard formats, and generally
allow you to specify the bimary data even when the format is not directly
recognised.

Mark.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: python-win32-admin@python.org
[mailto:python-win32-admin@python.org]On Behalf Of Andy Osagie
  Sent: Tuesday, 7 January 2003 5:05 AM
  To: python-win32@python.org
  Subject: [python-win32] Creating a screenshot..

  Hello.

  I was wondering how to create a screenshot of the user's screen and return
that data into a variable. I was told to look into the python win32
extensions and I did. The only idea I could come up with for accomplishing
my goal was the following:

  win32api.keybd_event(win32con.VK_PRINT, 0)

  win32clipboard.OpenClipboard(0)

  data = win32clipboard.GetClipboardData(win32clipboard.CF_BITMAP)

  win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()

  This, unfortunately, didn't work for two reasons. First: the first line
didn't successful recreate the act of the user pressing down the "Print
Screen" button. Pressing this down would have taken a screenshot of the
screen in bitmap format and pasted it to the clipboard. Second: I get a
"NotImplementedError" on line 3. Apparently "GetClipboardData" doesn't work
with the BITMAP type yet? L

  Are there any suggestions on alternate ways to accomplish my goal? Thanks
in advance.

  -- Andy

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