Questions tagged [screenshot]
For questions about screenshots — digital images that show the contents of a computer display,
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Using HTML5/Canvas/JavaScript to take in-browser screenshots
Google's "Report a Bug" or "Feedback Tool" lets you select an area of your browser window to create a screenshot that is submitted with your feedback about a bug.
Screenshot by ...
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How to programmatically take a screenshot on Android?
How can I take a screenshot of a selected area of phone-screen not by any program but from code?
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How to take a screenshot with Selenium WebDriver?
Is it possible to take a screenshot using Selenium WebDriver?
(Note: Not Selenium Remote Control)
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Take screenshots in the iOS simulator
I want to take a screenshot of my iOS application when it is running in the simulator, and save the screenshot on my Mac. How can I do this?
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Website screenshots
Is there any way of taking a screenshot of a website in PHP, then saving it to a file?
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Where are iOS simulator screenshots stored?
I have saved some screenshots in the iPhone Simulator running iOS 5, but I can't find them.
I had this problem before, and it took me frickin' ages to find them in the file system. Is this so simple ...
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What is App store screenshot size for 6.5" display?
Apparently, Apple documentation can't keep up with App Store changes. Until today, the biggest (optional) display size was a 5.8-Inch Super Retina Display with a resolution of 1125 x 2436 pixels. ...
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How to screenshot website in JavaScript client-side / how Google did it? (no need to access HDD) [duplicate]
I'm working on web application that needs to render a page and make a screenshot on the client (browser) side.
I don't need the screenshot to be saved on the local HDD though, just kept it in RAM ...
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Take a full page screenshot with Firefox on the command-line
I'm running Firefox on a Xvfb in a VPS. What I want to do is to take a full page screenshot of the page.
I can redirect Firefox to particular page using
firefox http://google.com
and take a ...
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Capture screenshot of active window?
I am making a screen capturing application and everything is going fine. All I need to do is capture the active window and take a screenshot of this active window. Does anyone know how I can do this?...
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How to prevent Screen Capture in Android
Is it possible to prevent the screen recording in Android Application?
I would like to develop an Android Secure Application. In that I need to detect screen recording software which are running ...
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How to take emulator screenshots using Eclipse?
I need to take screenshots of an android application running on an emulator in Eclipse Galileo.
Is there a built-in feature for this or do I have to download a plugin of some sorts?
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Using ADB to capture the screen [duplicate]
I'm trying to get a screenshot of the phone screen as fast as possible.
Currently, I am doing:
adb shell screencap -p /sdcard/screencap.png && adb pull /sdcard/screencap.png
However it is too ...
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How to take a screenshot programmatically on iOS
I want a screenshot of the image on the screen saved into the saved photo library.
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iOS Detection of Screenshot?
The app Snapchat, on the App Store, is an app that lets you share pictures with a self-destruct on them. You can only view the pics for X seconds. If you attempt to take a screenshot while the picture ...
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How to convert a UIView to an image
I want to convert a UIView to an image and save it in my app. Can someone please tell me how to take screenshot of a view or convert it to an image and what is the best way to save it in an app (Not ...
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How Do I Take a Screen Shot of a UIView?
I am wondering how my iPhone app can take a screen shot of a specific UIView as a UIImage.
I tried this code but all I get is a blank image.
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(CGSizeMake(320,480));
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Is there a way to take a screenshot using Java and save it to some sort of image?
Simple as the title states: Can you use only Java commands to take a screenshot and save it? Or, do I need to use an OS specific program to take the screenshot and then grab it off the clipboard?
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How can I save a screenshot directly to a file in Windows? [closed]
Is there a one button way to save a screenshot directly to a file in Windows?
TheSoftwareJedi accurately answered above question for Windows 8 and 10. Below original extra material remains for ...
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How to make a movie out of images in python
I currently try to make a movie out of images, but i could not find anything helpful .
Here is my code so far:
import time
from PIL import ImageGrab
x =0
while True:
try:
x+= 1
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How to capture the screenshot of a specific element rather than entire page using Selenium Webdriver?
Currently I'm trying to capture a screenshot using the Selenium WebDriver. But I can only obtain the whole page screen shot. However, what I wanted is just to capture a part of the page or perhaps ...
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Take a screenshot via a Python script on Linux
I want to take a screenshot via a python script and unobtrusively save it.
I'm only interested in the Linux solution, and should support any X based environment.
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How can I take a screenshot/image of a website using Python?
What I want to achieve is to get a website screenshot from any website in python.
Env: Linux
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iPhone in-app purchase screen shot
When posting an in-app purchase with Apple they ask for a screenshot to be included before going to review.
What kind of screenshots do they want?
My in-app purchase unlocks some of the lite version,...
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How do I take a full screen Screenshot in Swift?
I've found this code:
func screenShotMethod() {
//Create the UIImage
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(view.frame.size)
view.layer.renderInContext(UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext())
let image = ...
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Prevent screen capture in an iOS app
I need to prevent screen capture by users of my app, for security reasons. The contents I display are confidential and should not be copied onto the device. I saw one answer on Stack Overflow, but ...
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How to save the contents of a div as a image?
Basically, I am doing what the heading states, attempting to save the contents of a div as an image.
I plan on making a small online application for the iPad.
One function that is a must is having a ...
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Take iOS Simulator screenshots including device frame?
I want to take screenshots of my iOS apps running from Xcode in the iPhone Simulator and iPad Simulator.
However, when I take screenshots, only the screen is captured. The device frame (which is shown ...
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Capture the Screen into a Bitmap
I want to capture the screen in my code to get an image - like using the 'print screen' button on the keyboard .
Does anyone have an idea how to do this? I have no starting point.
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Webdriver Screenshot in Python
When taking a screenshot using Selenium Webdriver on windows with python, the screenshot is saved directly to the path of the program, is there a way to save the .png file to a specific directory?
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Convert web page to image [closed]
What are some utilities to obtain an image of a webpage?
Basically equivalent to taking a "screenshot" of the page after opening it.
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Command line program to create website screenshots (on Linux) [closed]
What is a good command line tool to create screenshots of websites on Linux? I need to automatically generate screenshots of websites without human interaction. The only tool that I found was ...
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Can you take a "screenshot" of the page using Canvas?
I have a page where we're positioning a bunch of elements using CSS, and changing their "top and left" positions using JS.
I've had reports that these things have been misaligned, but a user has the ...
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Swing: Obtain Image of JFrame
How do I obtain a java.awt.Image of a JFrame?
I want to obtain a screen shot of a JFrame (for later use within my application). This is presently accomplished using the robot to take a screen shot ...
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How can I take a screenshot in a windows application?
How can I take a screenshot of the current screen using Win32?
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How to screen shot a UAC prompt?
I'm trying to document a work flow with a series of screen shots. At one point in the flow, a UAC prompt appears, and I'd like to grab a bitmap of it to make my storyboard complete. Because UAC ...
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Get screenshot on Windows with Python?
I am creating a Beta Testers reporting module so they can send in thier comments on my software, but I would like to have the option to include a screenshot with the report. How do I take a screenshot ...
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Capture video data from screen in Python
Is there a way with Python (maybe with OpenCV or PIL) to continuously grab frames of all or a portion of the screen, at least at 15 fps or more? I've seen it done in other languages, so in theory it ...
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How does Netflix prevent users from taking screenshots of chrome browser?
I noticed that netflix employs a method of preventing users from recording or even taking still screenshot images of the video playback in their browser-based app.
If you are watching a video on ...
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Get a screenshot of a specific application
I know I can get the screenshot of the entire screen using Graphics.CopyFromScreen(). However, what if I just want the screenshot of a specific application?
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How to take a screenshot of a current Activity and then share it?
I need to take a screenshot of Activity (without the title bar, and the user should NOT see that a screenshot has actually been taken) and then share it via an action menu button "share". I have ...
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How to record screen and take screenshots, using Android API?
Background
Android got a new API on Kitkat and Lollipop, to video capture the screen. You can do it either via the ADB tool or via code (starting from Lollipop).
Ever since the new API was out, many ...
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Best way to take screenshots of tests in Selenium 2?
I need a way to take screenshots of my functional tests. Right now I'm using Selenium 2 with C# bindings. I pretty much want to take a screenshot at the end of the test to make sure the desired page ...
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Programmatically get a screenshot of a page
I'm writing a specialized crawler and parser for internal use, and I require the ability to take a screenshot of a web page in order to check what colours are being used throughout. The program will ...
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view.getDrawingCache() is deprecated in Android API 28
In android API 28 view.getDrawingCache() has been deprecated. Is there any newer solution to generate a Bitmap of a particular view in android.
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Take a screenshot of a whole View [duplicate]
I have built a table which is basically done by HorizontalScrollView inside a ScrollView. I made the user can edit the fields.
Now I want to save the table on a screen, jpg, png, pdf or anything else....
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How to take screenshot in android emulator
From Android 4.0, it supports volumn down+power key to take screenshot and saved in gallery. But how to do this in android emulator.
I know in eclipse, there is a 'take screenshot' button, but this ...
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Netbeans Shortcut to Open File
I remember seeing someone use a shortcut in NetBeans to open a dialog similar to phpStrom that can open files based on class names or is it file name. whats that?
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How to take a screenshot of the current widget - Flutter
I need to take a screenshot of the current screen or widget and I need to write it into a file.
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Screenshot of the Nexus One from adb?
My goal is to be able to type a one word command and get a screenshot from a rooted Nexus One attached by USB.
So far, I can get the framebuffer which I believe is a 32bit xRGB888 raw image by ...
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