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You can do this



That can be done.

Sorry, I meant to type active screen, not active window - I've edited my previous post. Also thanks for the code! I'll try it out when i get back to multi mon setup (at work).

if a window is semi-transparent, is there a way to make this take a screenshot of it as if it had 0 transparency?

Sure. Just use the window handle of a window instead of 0 when executing Get(Window)DC in the script. Or you can use PrintWindow API.

thank you sean this worked. the only problem is that it removes the border around it (taskbar and all)

Use GetWindowDC instead of GetDC.

All the input for AHK is greatly appreciated. It has saved me hours of time. This function gets me most of the way to a solution to my problem, I am looking for help with the remainder.

I access a database where there is a hierarchy of data elements. By double clicking on a parent element the list of child elements expands down, much like expanding a file list in Windows
Explorer. The child elements can range from 1 to several thousands. I need to extract how many children there are for each of 32,000 parents.

I have an AHK script that expands the list. Depending on the number of children, the database can take from seconds to several minutes to expand the list. Once the list is expanded the number of elements appears in the "fake" status bar. Unfortunately this information cannot be read by StatusBarGetText (it returns an errorlevel 1). So my script uses CaptureScreen to copy the section of the 'fake' status bar that holds the number of child elements and pastes it into Excel in the cell next to the parent element.

I need help with:
I would like a routine that reads the screen segment into the clipboard, as it does now, but then takes another snapshot and compares the 2. This way I can tell when children have dropped down, showing the number of children for that parent and proceed without having to sleep the maximum amount of time between each reading, which is the only way I know to do it now.

Once I have all the screen segments pasted in Excel I would like some way to compare them, so that say I can find all the parents that have 1, 2 or 3 children.

Can CaptureScreen be modified so that the rectangle coordinates refer to the active window, not the whole screen?

Thanks in advance for any help you are able to provide.
ed

I don't think that's difficult, but, definitely I won't do that to the official one. You can change it however you like, though.

Hi

I have downloaded the ScreenCapture.ahk. But am confused to how to run it i.e. where do I set the values (file path etc.).

Cheers
Rob

Thanks for this, especially the transparent window screening with location. I needed this to add a requested feature to a project I'm working on. You should consider including an option in the main function code that's posted to screen transparent windows. I'm sure many people have missed where you mentioned how to do it in this topic. Thanks again Sean for another great contribution.

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I'm not sure if I understood you here. You mean option to enable/disable capturing the transparent windows?

Great program, I'm getting more and more impressed of the possibilities of autohotkey each day!

1) does anyone have the code to capture a rectangle? (not complete screen/window)
2) what is the fastest way to add a watermark? Or can CaptureScreen automatic overlay a second picture in the result?

Thanks,
rene

No. However, you can mimic the function CaptureCursor in the script.

Sorry, that is not what I mean. I want to specify the rectangle by using the mouse and draw a rectangle.

Gr,
rene

uhm look, I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but i cannot use this script at all. whenever I double click the ahk file, the tray icon just flickers for a second and nothing happened
I thought I was missing the gdiplus.dll, so I downloaded it here and put it in the same folder of the script
I'm a newbie here guys, any help? what did I do wrong?