[PD] Desktop Screen Capture

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Mon Aug 8 04:49:26 CEST 2011


On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, John Harrison wrote:

> I vaguely remember that there might be a way to do this just with gridflow as 
> well?

GridFlow has had this feature since 2002 or 2003...

I used it for making self-screenshot art this year :

   http://gridflow.ca/gallery/patch_dans_patch_8.png
   http://gridflow.ca/gallery/patch_dans_patch_9.png
   http://gridflow.ca/gallery/patch_dans_patch_m.png
   http://gridflow.ca/gallery/patch_dans_patch_35.png
   (and more... go see the full series of 42 similarly-named images in the
   same folder)

The use of [gf/canvas_xid] is only if you need to want to make screenshots 
of your own patch. It's also used for making screenshots of all help 
patches automatically :

   http://gridflow.ca/help/

But if you want to make fullscreen shots, or screenshots of the topleft 
corner of the screen, you don't need that, just :

   [#in x11 here root]

This requires x11, which is available on OSX as «Apple X11», but I don't 
recall trying the screenshot feature on OSX.

The screenshot feature is not part of the [#in quartz] module.

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