For questions about screenshots — digital images that show the contents of a computer display,
Questions tagged [screenshot]
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How can I save a screenshot directly to a file in Windows?
Is there a one button way to save a screenshot directly to a file in Windows?
TheSoftwareJedi accurately answered above question for Windows 8 and 10. Below original extra material remains for posterity.
This is a very important question as the…
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How to convert a UIView to an image
I want to convert a UIView to an image and save it in my app. Can someone please tell me how to take screenshot of a view or convert it to an image and what is the best way to save it in an app (Not camera roll)? Here is the code for the view:
var…
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Using ADB to capture the screen
I'm trying to get a screenshot of the phone screen as fast as possible.
Currently, I am doing:
adb shell screencap -p /sdcard/screencap.png && adb pull /sdcard/screencap.png
However it is too slow and takes up to 3 seconds.
Is there any…
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Take a screenshot via a Python script on Linux
I want to take a screenshot via a python script and unobtrusively save it.
I'm only interested in the Linux solution, and should support any X based environment.
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How to capture the screenshot of a specific element rather than entire page using Selenium Webdriver?
Currently I'm trying to capture a screenshot using the Selenium WebDriver. But I can only obtain the whole page screen shot. However, what I wanted is just to capture a part of the page or perhaps just on specific element based on ID or any specific…
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iPhone in-app purchase screen shot
When posting an in-app purchase with Apple they ask for a screenshot to be included before going to review.
What kind of screenshots do they want?
My in-app purchase unlocks some of the lite version, I'm not sure what Apple wants to see here.
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How do I take a full screen Screenshot in Swift?
I've found this code:
func screenShotMethod() {
//Create the UIImage
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(view.frame.size)
view.layer.renderInContext(UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext())
let image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
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How can I take a screenshot/image of a website using Python?
What I want to achieve is to get a website screenshot from any website in python.
Env: Linux
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Convert web page to image
What are some utilities to obtain an image of a webpage?
Basically equivalent to taking a "screenshot" of the page after opening it.
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Capture the Screen into a Bitmap
I want to capture the screen in my code to get an image - like using the 'print screen' button on the keyboard .
Does anyone have an idea how to do this? I have no starting point.
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Can you take a "screenshot" of the page using Canvas?
I have a page where we're positioning a bunch of elements using CSS, and changing their "top and left" positions using JS.
I've had reports that these things have been misaligned, but a user has the motive to lie about this to "cheat", so I'm not…
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Command line program to create website screenshots (on Linux)
What is a good command line tool to create screenshots of websites on Linux? I need to automatically generate screenshots of websites without human interaction. The only tool that I found was khtml2png, but I wonder if there are others that aren't…
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Swing: Obtain Image of JFrame
How do I obtain a java.awt.Image of a JFrame?
I want to obtain a screen shot of a JFrame (for later use within my application). This is presently accomplished using the robot to take a screen shot specifying the coordinates and dimensions of the…
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How to screen shot a UAC prompt?
I'm trying to document a work flow with a series of screen shots. At one point in the flow, a UAC prompt appears, and I'd like to grab a bitmap of it to make my storyboard complete. Because UAC prompts are on a virtual desktop (or something like…
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How can I take a screenshot in a windows application?
How can I take a screenshot of the current screen using Win32?
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