WinCamera

by Chris Lovett

A little command line utility that snaps pictures of the desktop in the background. This makes it possible to get pictures of menus and capture a whole sequence of UI operations.  Makes writing specs a lot easier.

Download full Source Code and executable (9kb) or view the source code at WinCamera.src

Usage: wincamera -i:10 -t:1000 -s:1 -f:jpeg image 

This will take 10 snapshots of screen 1 with 1 second delay between each and saves them as jpeg files named "image1.jpeg" through "image10.jpeg"

Options:
-i:n
specifies the number of shots to take (default is 1)
-t:n
specifies the delay between each shot in milliseconds (default 1000)
-s:n
specifies which screen number to copy (default is primary screen)
-f:format
specifies image format (default jpeg) supported formats: bmp, emf, gif, png, jpg, tiff, wmf
filename 
the base file name to use (default "image")

 

Change History

Date Description
7/1/2003
  • Initial Version