Thanks Klaus. That works great.
Now for the left-hook...
I need to save these files to a server. So I'm guessing I need to ftp them there. If there a way to send them over via some xmlsocket style connection where the *line* stays open? I can see the ftp requests slowing things down having to open/close connections with each sent file.
On Mar 25, 2005, at 11:06 AM, Klaus Major wrote:
Hi Simon,
It's been a while since I fired up MetaCard but I would like to do the following if possible...
Can I run a metacard exe (mac/pc - linux if possible) as a *background* process which takes screenshots every xNum of minutes? How would I do that?
Hmm, at least for the mac this would work, just tested :-)
on mouseUp send "doit" to me in 5 secs end mouseUp
I clicked and switched to "Mail.app", so MC was in the "background"...
on doit export snapshot from rect (the screenrect) to file "sc1.jpg" as JPEG end doit
I am sure you will figure out how to adopt this to your app... If in doubt drop a line :-)
And then i found this nice and big (1600*1200) jpg in the defaultfolder...
You can set "the jpegquality" first if you like...
For OS X there might be a chance to put your app into the "background", read no dock icon, by adding something to the "Info.plist"...
This is from Ken's wonderful and helpful RR page, i hope he won't mind...
Just for your convenience ;-)
Please bookmark: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Look for -> Developer Resources -> Revolution
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Hiding a Process (Making a Backgrounded App)
(Mac OS X Only)
To hide an application process in OS X 10.2 and earlier, open the Info.plist file in the
Contents folder of the application package. Add this to the <dict> section (it doesn't seem to matter where):
<key>NSBGOnly</key> <string>1</string>
In OS X 10.3 and later, add this instead:
<key>LSUIElement</key> <string>1</string>
Doing this will remove the process from the Dock, and from any menus that list active (visible) processes.
To show it again, you can either put in a 0 instead of a 1 for the <key>, or you can remove the whole thing.
Cross-posted from the SuperCard List
Updated 8/25/04 by Ken Ray from a tip posted by Devin Asay to the Use-Revolution list
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Hope that helps...
Sincerely, Simon
Regards from germany
Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de
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