Capturing a Flash Site Screen Shot

[Richard Steele]

Using CF8, how can we capture a screen shot of a Flash site problematically. The capture program we now use doesn't have a delay built in so it immediately takes a screenshot of a blank screen or the loading icon. Many thanks in advance.

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[Alan Rother]

It's not a CF or Java option (it's .net command line utility)

But it does exactly what you've described.

http://www.websitescreenshots.com/

<http://www.websitescreenshots.com/>=]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Richard Steele <rick@...> wrote:

>
> Using CF8, how can we capture a screen shot of a Flash site
> problematically. The capture program we now use doesn't have a delay built
> in so it immediately takes a screenshot of a blank screen or the loading
> icon. Many thanks in advance.
>
>

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[Richard Steele]

Thanks. I've installed it on our Windows 2003 Server. However it doesn't seem to work in a cfexecute. What might I be missing here?


<cfexecute name="c:\program files (x86)\webshot\webshotcmd.exe" arguments= "/url 'http://www.yahoo.com'" />



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[Stefan Richter-3]

Have you tested via the commandline first and made sure that that works?
Maybe try the .dll version and use cfobject?

Also note the implementation tips:
http://www.websitescreenshots.com/Usage.aspx#cltips

I remember having problems with cfexecute myself in the past and I seem to remember that I overcame them by using a substitute tag, I think it was this one:
http://www.cftagstore.com/tags/cfxexec.cfm

Stefan




On 12 Nov 2009, at 04:46, Richard Steele wrote:

>
> Thanks. I've installed it on our Windows 2003 Server. However it doesn't seem to work in a cfexecute. What might I be missing here?
>
>
> <cfexecute name="c:\program files (x86)\webshot\webshotcmd.exe" arguments= "/url 'http://www.yahoo.com'" />
>
>


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[Richard Steele]

Hi Stefan, I'm wondering if it's because it's on a 64 bit windows 2003 server machine. It seems to have a problem with the path having a space in it (c:\program files (x64)\webshot\).

> Have you tested via the commandline first and made sure that that
> works?
> Maybe try the .dll version and use cfobject?
>
> Also note the implementation tips:
> http://www.websitescreenshots.com/Usage.aspx#cltips
>
> I remember having problems with cfexecute myself in the past and I
> seem to remember that I overcame them by using a substitute tag, I
> think it was this one:
> http://www.cftagstore.com/tags/cfxexec.cfm
>
> Stefan
>
>
>
>
> On 12 Nov 2009, at 04:46, Richard Steele wrote:
>
> >
> > Thanks. I've installed it on our Windows 2003 Server. However it
> doesn't seem to work in a cfexecute. What might I be missing here?
> >
> >
> > <cfexecute name="c:\program files (x86)\webshot\webshotcmd.exe"
> arguments= "/url 'http://www.yahoo.com'" />
> >
> >

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[Richard Steele]

Hi Stefan, I'm wondering if it's because it's on a 64 bit windows 2003 server machine. It seems to have a problem with the path having a space in it (c:\program files (x64)\webshot\).

> Have you tested via the commandline first and made sure that that
> works?
> Maybe try the .dll version and use cfobject?
>
> Also note the implementation tips:
> http://www.websitescreenshots.com/Usage.aspx#cltips
>
> I remember having problems with cfexecute myself in the past and I
> seem to remember that I overcame them by using a substitute tag, I
> think it was this one:
> http://www.cftagstore.com/tags/cfxexec.cfm
>
> Stefan
>
>
>
>
> On 12 Nov 2009, at 04:46, Richard Steele wrote:
>
> >
> > Thanks. I've installed it on our Windows 2003 Server. However it
> doesn't seem to work in a cfexecute. What might I be missing here?
> >
> >
> > <cfexecute name="c:\program files (x86)\webshot\webshotcmd.exe"
> arguments= "/url 'http://www.yahoo.com'" />
> >
> >

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[Dave Watts]

> Hi Stefan, I'm wondering if it's because it's on a 64 bit windows 2003 server machine. It seems to have a problem with the path
> having a space in it (c:\program files (x64)\webshot\).

Use the 8.3 name instead, which will be something like c:\progra~1\webshot\...

You can identify the 8.3 name by entering "dir /x" at a command prompt.

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