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Perhaps you could post your version of the code (with the print active window wingetactivestats) in the other post, i think other ahk users would benefit from it, as they maybe dont know how to apply this, code-examples always makes it more clear

I've added this great script to the script showcase. Please let me know if you have any revisions to the following description:

Thanks for sharing these great scripts.

Can this be made to work for windows with 3D acceleration, e.g. 3dsmax/maya?

it may be possible with opengl/direct3d, but i doubt to get it working with gdi/plus. the reason is that the 3d windows are "overlays" and cannot be grabbed directly.
you can capture 3d-apps when you turn of hardware-accelleration and force the cpu to use software-rendering. (but i guess thats not what you want to do with maya).

if you only want to be informed when the rendering is finished, you could try to capture the window-title only, which often contains a percentage of progress.

I would like to record the thumbnail for streaming across a network. My current solution is to use a screen recording tool that resizes the capture area and stream that. The problem with this is that it wastes an incredible amount of resources capturing and processing a large area and waste additional processing power resizing and encoding it.

I would like to instead record and stream your thumbnail. When streaming 5-10 fps to multiple clients the smaller and more bandwidth-efficient the better.

If you think of a solution for this in the future please let me know.

you might use http://www.d3dgear.com/ which can capture opengl and direct3d apps and save them as screenshots or even video in different formats. its not directly scriptable with ahk, but perhaps better for your usage. perhaps you can save the video on a network-drive and stream it with a video-client like vlc http://www.videolan.org/vlc/.

I'm really amazed by this script, but was disappointed to find that it does not work with some of the windows (the ones I want to monitor) - It seems like it won't capture Java-based images. This might be isolated to my system, so if someone else could confirm, I would appreciate it.

To test, go to http://www.coolfocus.com/ and navigate to Java tab > Java Applet Gallery > Menu Systems #1 and select one of the menus (I tried Classic). The preview will not show any image where the Java frame is.

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Hi, i guess its a problem with java and not the ahk-script. The "print-window" function is used, and java does not handle this correct. there are many programs which result in a grey screenshot etc from java-applications. eg. many expose-clones have difficulities.

perhaps you can try and modify this script, as it works similar but uses a different technique to grab the window (actually only clip it)
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtop ... 1247#71247

This tool would be very useful for people who play PokerStars and other such online poker or gaming sites. In particular, many players like to play multiple games at the same time because (well, they're insane) the play in a single game is too slow/boring for them.

With this script, one could draw an area around their own hand (cards) and the associated pot for that hand, and thus monitor every game without having to flip between windows every few seconds.

Some options I'd like to see would be the ability to click on the 'monitored section' and have those clicks sent to the actual window. If this is not possible, then clicking on that 'monitored section' should bring up (activate) the actual window.

For cleanliness, it'd be nice if a selection size can be remembered, then applied to future selections so that each monitored selection is the same width-height. Perhaps additional cropping of individual selections or all-at-once could be done aswell.

hi racoon,

if you want to click on the grabbed items, you can have it easier, just using winclip

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtop ... moon+clock

where you simply make the window "smaller" and then can arrange them on the screen the way you like it.

as you deal with the real window and only remove "borders" you can click on the window and interact it.

live-windows works with screengrabs, and also has the possibility to zoom sections of the window.

greetings
holomind

Hi Holomind and everyone else

I just came across this script after using Autohotkey for a year and a half or so. I am a System Administrator and use UltraVNC to remote view and control about 90 computers. I have seen a number of network management programs that grab screenshots of remote desktops but this near real time ability to keep an eye on several remote sessions at once without flipping through the individual windows is a huge productivity boost! I can monitor software installs or employee usage of computers at a glance while doing my other work. Being able to resize on the fly is great!

Thanks a lot
Larry

Many thanks for this script, it is really great.

It would be nice if I could set the maximal width and height of thumbnails.
Even greater when they could be listed horizontally as well, for example when width of LiveWindows is greater than height.

Also one issue, when I add a window and change to another using ALT & TAB, a click on LiveWindows will directly send it to the bottom.
I think it should activate it only and move to bottom at second click.

I have solved that behavior by adding LButton hotkey and changed RestorWin a little, even it is not the best solution, it works.

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FANTASTIC!
I plan on tweaking it and use it to display multiple windows of Internet Radio station steaming music on multi sound cards. So, a single window can display dynamically what's playing on each radio. The neat part also is to be able to focus on the interesting part of the radio window, trimming the side advertising, like on Pandora.com.

BTW, this is in conjunction with a multi room, multi source audio system, where the PC will be used as a Music server.

What would be a great adaptation of that, is having on a side some basic "Pause" "Skip" buttons, each associated to other AK scripts in order to perform ... in accordance to the button.

Hi All,
This is great work. It is really usefull for me who monitor 20 windows at frequent interval in a support project.

It will great if i can set windows horizontly like matrix (3x3 , 4X4). i.e. currently all windows are shown vertically. can we have two or three column of preview windows?

any help is most appreciated!