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[holomind]

[Chris]

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

[Mistrel]

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

[holomind]

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.

[Mistrel]

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.

[holomind]

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/.

[Rhys]

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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[Raccoon]

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.

[holomind]

hi racoon,

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

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11642&highlight=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