Need a Screencap Utility with a Timer

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Tim Weaver

I'm looking for a screencap utility with a timer that can get a cap of the
window under the mouse cursor every "however many" seconds. I haven't been
able to locate such an animal.

Anyone?
 
Tim Weaver said:
I'm looking for a screencap utility with a timer that can get a cap of the
window under the mouse cursor every "however many" seconds. I haven't been
able to locate such an animal.
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I got up early this morning, in order to get to be the first one to put
Irfanview into the list.

Options > Capture.

Capture Area
[ ] Whole Screen
[ ] Foreground Window
[ ] Foreground Window - Client Area

Capture Options
[ ] Include Mouse Cursor

Capture Method
[ ] Hot Key: [____]
[ ] Automatic - timer delay: [___] seconds

Saving Mehod
[ ] Show captured image in viewer
[ ] Save captured image as file
Destination directory: [________] [BROWSE]
Save As: [__png!__] [OPTIONS]

It autonames with long, unique names composed of date and time.

iviewcapture_date_15_04_2004_time_04_56_52.png
iviewcapture_date_15_04_2004_time_04_56_54.png
iviewcapture_date_15_04_2004_time_04_56_56.png
iviewcapture_date_15_04_2004_time_04_56_50.png

.. . . . .

I am looking at MWSnap's helpfile with regard to options. It offers a
very nice array of autonaming styles, not fixed as with Irfanview. It
also has an option to stop after XX screenshots.

Where MWSnap is more limited is with regard to options on your save image
quality:

"Use the list to select the format for auto-saved images. Note
that you can select the format only. Image parameters, like color
depth, quality or transparency will be identical to those last
specified when saving manually."

Then where it seems you have a lot more choice with MWSnap, it'd be with
what area you want captured, and what size outputs. I assume this can be
specified in detail, same as when you do individual captures. I don't
have enough experience with such options to comment there, having generally
the simpleton habits of [alt-printscreen] & [printscreen + crop].

Hmmmmm. Looking, and I'm not even spotting the equivalent of alt-printscreen
in MWSnap. ?
 
omega said:
Tim Weaver :

I got up early this morning, in order to get to be the first one to put
Irfanview into the list.
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Maybe I wasn't clear; the timer needs to take repetitive caps of the same
window at a given interval.
 
Tim Weaver said:
Tim Weaver :
I'm looking for a screencap utility with a timer that can get a cap of
the window under the mouse cursor every "however many" seconds. I
haven't been able to locate such an animal.
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Irfanview

[ ] Automatic - timer delay: [___] seconds
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Maybe I wasn't clear; the timer needs to take repetitive caps of the same
window at a given interval.
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Irfanview taking repetitive screenshots of client window does not fit what
you want?

Are you saying you need to specify same particular area to be captured, that
will be different from the window that has active focus?

Then you should look over the options of the other program I mentioned,
MWSnap. Its capture options talk about specifying particular areas on
screen, independent of what has the active focus.
 
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Maybe I wasn't clear; the timer needs to take repetitive caps of the same
window at a given interval.
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Hi Tim,
Go to my web site and send me an email. I am working on writing one that
will do what you need it to do. http://www.clariondeveloper.com

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Ben E. Brady said:
(e-mail address removed) says...
Go to my web site and send me an email. I am working on writing one that
will do what you need it to do. http://www.clariondeveloper.com
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What are you going to program that is not available? There already exist
screen capture programs who capture and auto-save at regular intervals.
Grabby, printkey2000, wingrab, etc.

Then of course there is Irfanview, as pointed out to the OP, that also
has this function, just as he described.

Perhaps you've envisioned some particular extra feature that you see as
desirable for when one is using a doing timed auto-captures? If you describe
whatever feature, when you have finished the program, then perhaps others
will be interested too.
 
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