Now that it is in the clipboard, what are you going to do with it?
This code was posted a few weeks ago- It will take a screenshot and
save that image to a bmp file.
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:45:46 +0100
From: Stef Mientki <s.mientki@ru.nl>
Subject: Re: [wxPython-users] Re: How to copy a Frame or Window to the
clipboard ?
To: wxPython-users@lists.wxwidgets.org
Message-ID: <47E43A9A.6050606@ru.nl>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowedWithout realizing until now, I just answered the question myself
SendKeys.SendKeys ( '%{PRTSC}' )cheers,
Stef
def TakeScreenShot(self, rect):
""" Takes a screenshot of the screen at give pos & size (rect). """
#Create a DC for the whole screen area
dcScreen = wx.ScreenDC()
#Create a Bitmap that will later on hold the screenshot image
#Note that the Bitmap must have a size big enough to hold the screenshot
#-1 means using the current default colour depth
bmp = wx.EmptyBitmap(rect.width, rect.height)
#Create a memory DC that will be used for actually taking the screenshot
memDC = wx.MemoryDC()
#Tell the memory DC to use our Bitmap
#all drawing action on the memory DC will go to the Bitmap now
memDC.SelectObject(bmp)
#Blit (in this case copy) the actual screen on the memory DC
#and thus the Bitmap
memDC.Blit( 0, #Copy to this X coordinate
0, #Copy to this Y coordinate
rect.width, #Copy this width
rect.height, #Copy this height
dcScreen, #From where do we copy?
rect.x, #What's the X offset in the original DC?
rect.y #What's the Y offset in the original DC?
)
#Select the Bitmap out of the memory DC by selecting a new
#uninitialized Bitmap
memDC.SelectObject(wx.NullBitmap)
return bmp
And then, for the widget you want to take the screenshot (it can be
also the main frame), you can do something like:
bmp = self.TakeScreenShot(self.GetRect())
img = bmp.ConvertToImage()
fileName = "myImage.png"
img.SaveFile(fileName, wx.BITMAP_TYPE_PNG)