Snapshot+Clipboard

Yves Lange yves.lange at bluewin.ch
Wed Jul 19 15:28:41 EDT 2006


Claudio Grondi a écrit :
> Yves Lange wrote:
>> Hello,
>> i'm searching a method to take a snapshot and save it in a jpg, bmp or 
>> gif file. I tried with win32api and win32con but it save the snapshot 
>> to the clipboard, so i tried to redirect this in a file but i have 
>> some problems while getting the IMAGE stocked in the clipboard and 
>> save it to a file. Can somebody help me ?
>>
>> Questions:
>> -How can i read the snapshot in the clipboard ?
>> -How can i take a snapshot in a different way (less difficult) ?
>>
>> Thks.
> 
> Use PIL which on Windows supports taking snapshots of the screen.
> <code>
> import ImageGrab
> GrabbedImage = ImageGrab.grab() # store screenshot as "RGB" Image
> GrabbedImage.save("TheScreenshot.jpg") # PIL evaluates extension
> </code>
> For more details see:
>   http://effbot.org/imagingbook/imagegrab.htm
> (works on Windows only)
> 
> Claudio Grondi

Thks this module works well !



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