Roland Moriz wrote:
I don't know about that, but I remembered cribbing this from the list, which does what you ask:Hi,I need to do screenshots with perl on win32. The only possible way i found is to simmulate they "printscrn" key and then read the clipboard. On the London.pm
#!perl -w --
use strict;
use Win32::API;
my $push_key = new Win32::API("user32", "keybd_event", [qw(I I N P)], 'V') or
die "keybd_event: " . Win32::FormatMessage (Win32::GetLastError ());
use constant VK_SNAPSHOT => 0x2C;
use constant KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY => 0x01;
use constant KEYEVENTF_KEYUP => 0x02;
my $bVk = VK_SNAPSHOT;
my $bScan = 0x01; # backwards from docs: 1=screen; 0=window
# PRINT SCR scan code for 102 keybd => E0 2A E037
# 2A or 37 gets window
my $dwFlags = KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY;
my $dwExtraInfo = 0;
$push_key->Call($bVk, $bScan, $dwFlags, 0); # simulate a "printscrn" key press
# the release seems to not be needed
#$dwFlags = KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY | KEYEVENTF_KEYUP;
#$push_key->Call($bVk, $bScan, $dwFlags, 0); # & release
use Win32::Clipboard;
my $file = 'screendump.bmp';
my $image = Win32::Clipboard::GetBitmap();
open BITMAP, ">$file" or die "Error creating $file: $!";
binmode BITMAP;
print BITMAP $image;
close BITMAP;
__END__
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