<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"> <head> <!-- * * Copyright 2009, Haiku. All rights reserved. * Distributed under the terms of the MIT License. * * Authors: * Humdinger <humdingerb@gmail.com> * --> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <meta name="robots" content="all" /> <title>Screenshot</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../Haiku-doc.css" /> </head> <body> <div id="banner"> <div><span>User guide</span></div> </div> <div class="nav"> <div class="inner"> <ul class="lang-menu"> <li class="now"><img src="../../images/flags/gb.png" alt="" /> English</li> <li><a href="../../fr/applications/screenshot.html"><img src="../../images/flags/fr.png" alt="" />Français</a></li> <li><a href="../../de/applications/screenshot.html"><img src="../../images/flags/de.png" alt="" />Deutsch</a></li> <li><a href="../../it/applications/screenshot.html"><img src="../../images/flags/it.png" alt="" />Italiano</a></li> <li><a href="../../ru/applications/screenshot.html"><img src="../../images/flags/ru.png" alt="" />Русский</a></li> <li><a href="../../es/applications/screenshot.html"><img src="../../images/flags/es.png" alt="" />Español</a></li> <li><a href="../../sv_SE/applications/screenshot.html"><img src="../../images/flags/sv_SE.png" alt="" />Svensk</a></li> <li><a href="../../jp/applications/screenshot.html"><img src="../../images/flags/jp.png" alt="" />日本語</a></li> </ul> <span> « <a href="poorman.html">PoorMan</a> :: <a href="../applications.html#list-of-apps" class="uplink">Applications</a> :: <a href="showimage.html">Showimage</a> » </span></div> </div> <div id="content"> <div> <h2><img src="../../images/apps-images/screenshot-icon_64.png" alt="screenshot-icon_64.png" width="64" height="64" />Screenshot</h2> <table summary="layout" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"> <tr><td>Deskbar:</td><td style="width:15px;"></td><td><span class="menu">Applications</span></td></tr> <tr><td>Location:</td><td></td><td><span class="path">/boot/system/apps/Screenshot</span></td></tr> <tr><td>Settings:</td><td></td><td><span class="path">~/config/settings/screenshot</span></td></tr> </table> <p><br /></p> <p>Besides normal screenshots taken via <span class="key">PRINT</span>, which puts a PNG of the current screen into <span class="path">/boot/home/</span>, this application provides some useful options.</p> <p><img id="sreenshot" src="../images/apps-images/screenshot.png" alt="screenshot.png" /></p> <p>Starting Screenshot will take a screenshot as usual, but offers from its main window controls to set filename, format and folder before saving the image.</p> <p>The <span class="button">Options</span> dialog has a few more settings:</p> <p><img id="sreenshot-options" src="../images/apps-images/screenshot-options.png" alt="screenshot-options.png" /></p> <p>Besides the obvious, toggle between taking the whole screen or just the active window, including the window border and the mouse pointer, you can enter a delay before a screenshot is taken. Of course, this delay takes only effect if you take a new shot by pressing <span class="button">Take Screenshot</span>.</p> <h2> <a href="#"><img src="../../images/up.png" style="border:none;float:right" alt="index" /></a> Taking a screenshot from Terminal</h2> <p>The Screenshot application is also usable from Terminal or a script.<br /> <span class="cli">Screenshot --help</span> shows the familiar options as parameters:</p> <pre class="terminal">~> Screenshot --help Screenshot [OPTION]... Creates a bitmap of the current screen OPTION -o, --options Show options window first -m, --mouse-pointer Include the mouse pointer -b, --border Include the window border -w, --window Capture the active window instead of the entire screen -d, --delay=seconds Take screenshot after specified delay [in seconds] -s, --silent Saves the screenshot without showing the app window overrides --options, saves to home folder as png Note: OPTION -b, --border takes only effect when used with -w, --window </pre> </div> </div> <div class="nav"> <div class="inner"><span> « <a href="poorman.html">PoorMan</a> :: <a href="../applications.html#list-of-apps" class="uplink">Applications</a> :: <a href="showimage.html">Showimage</a> » </span></div> </div> </body> </html>