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by jfcwilson :: Rate this Message:

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Hi all,
 
Is it possible to capture the screen and save it to a file? I know it isn't built into pipmak, but is there a Lua function for it?
 
Thanks,
  James


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Re: Screen capture?

by Aidan Gauland-2 :: Rate this Message:

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James Wilson wrote:
> Is it possible to capture the screen and save it to a file?

Simply, no.

> I know it isn't built into pipmak, but is there a Lua function for it?

I'm not sure what you're asking here.  All Lua functions provided by Pipmak
are interfaces (for lack of a better word) to a function built into Pipmak.

If you mean a Lua function that is part of the standard Lua library, then I'm
sorry to be the one to tell you that Lua is more primitive than you seem to
realise. ;)

Oh, and this will will probably never be implemented in Pipmak, because it is
so simple to just take a screen shot of the window on just about any system.

 --Aidan
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Re: Screen capture?

by jfcwilson :: Rate this Message:

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I see. Thanks. The reason I wanted to do this was to create a graphical save game system.
So I don't think that using something like the print screen key would work, as it has to be automated.
 
Thanks,
 James

--- On Wed, 11/4/09, Aidan Gauland <wgsilkie@...> wrote:

From: Aidan Gauland <wgsilkie@...>
Subject: Re: Screen capture?
To: "Content creation for the Pipmak Game Engine" <pipmak-users@...>
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 4:36 AM

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James Wilson wrote:
> Is it possible to capture the screen and save it to a file?

Simply, no.

> I know it isn't built into pipmak, but is there a Lua function for it?

I'm not sure what you're asking here.  All Lua functions provided by Pipmak
are interfaces (for lack of a better word) to a function built into Pipmak.

If you mean a Lua function that is part of the standard Lua library, then I'm
sorry to be the one to tell you that Lua is more primitive than you seem to
realise. ;)

Oh, and this will will probably never be implemented in Pipmak, because it is
so simple to just take a screen shot of the window on just about any system.

--Aidan
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Re: Screen capture?

by Christian Walther :: Rate this Message:

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James Wilson wrote:
> The reason I wanted to do this was to create a graphical save game system.

For what it's worth, enabling this has been on my mind as a vague idea -
but it hasn't even made it onto the official to-do list yet. See
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.games.devel.pipmak.user/289/focus=290

  -Christian


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