Using greenshot with AHK

[monkkey]

Hi, I wanted to make a script that repeatedly takes a screenshot of my screen using AHK. However, the hotkey I set up for greenshot doesn't seem to work. Here is my code:

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=::
{
Send {ScrollLock}
}

I set up the program to take a screenshot when I press the ScrollLock key, but for some reason, AHK doesn't trigger it when I press the '=' key. Am I doing something wrong?

[gwarble]

=::ScrollLock

[monkkey]

Unfortunately, that didn't seem to work. I wonder, could it be because greenshot isn't the window that's in focus?

[gwarble]

I don't know anything about greenshot, personally i would try do it with pure ahk

but you can try to go back to the style you had above but without the {}'s around the send command, with a return after it (on my phone now or i'd show in code), then add in a "winactivate before the send if thats what greenshot requires

[Tomer]

you can use nircmd.exe
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

for example:

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; Save 10 screenshots in a loop, and wait 60 seconds between the screenshot save calls. The filenames of the screenshot will contain the time and date of the saved screenshot.
run, nircmd.exe loop 10 60000 savescreenshot c:\temp\scr~$currdate.MM_dd_yyyy$-~$currtime.HH_mm_ss$.png

[broccolilili]

I did it like this, because send key didnt work on greenshot neither. so i did a click on greenshot in taskbar, then sent the key, then back to the window i wanted to capture

MsgBox, click on the window you wana capture thx
Loop, 1080
{
send, {PgDn}
Sleep, 400
Click 1640, 1070
Sleep, 700
Send, {Printscreen}
Sleep, 300
Click 50,200
}