#4 Auto screen shot

[vitalogy]

At the end of the trade, it would be interesting if the
Bot press the "Prt Scr" key.

That will allow the bot's owner to take screen shots of
each trade with the help of an external software. Most
screen shot utilities running in the backgroud have the
Prt Scr key as hot key.

If no screen shot utility is running, no big deal. The
screen shot will be wasted in the clipboard. So I don't
see any inconvenient to introduce this fonction.

[John Goetzinger]

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Is this a screenshot of the final trade screen?

[vitalogy]

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There is 2 way to look at it, depending what info you want to
gather.

Personaly, when I trade I take a screen shot of the second
confirmation window--the big gray one that show what you
give & get--. Then I note the confirmation number. It's not a
real proof the the trade occured (since at this point one of
the trade can still cancel) but it show enough evidence of
the cards we traded to convince most players that we
actually traded for those cards. At the same time, I have
enough information to give to WotC to make them verify the
trade if that player still have doubt about my honesty.

A real proof would be a screen shot AFTER the trade,
unfortunatly, it don't show the card you give. However, you
have the trade confirmation number on the screen shot.

So we have two options (maybe 3):

- One screen shot of the second confirmation window. Info
you get: items received + items given

- One screen shot after the completed trade. Info you get:
items you received + trade confirmation number

- Two screen shots; confirm. window & completed trade. Info
you get: everything. However, that the double the hard drive
space required to save the screen shot. I have a software
that auto-save the screen shot in *.jpg but still may
cumbersome.

In the perfect world, maybe the screen shot would be
optional. The user can activate 0, 1 or both auto screen
shots.

[vitalogy]

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Thinking about it again,
if I have to choose only 1 screen shot, I will take the second
confirmation window.

Why? Because it contain the most information, inluding the
name of the other player (something I've overlooked in my
preceding post).

With the approx. time or the trade + the name of that player,
I can retrieve the correct screen shot and this is enough
information to give to WotC if I need them to investigate.

[Owen Pauling]

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I have written code to log the date, time, account names and
whether the trade was successful, to a log file. Seems to
work perfectly, but it's hard to test when I only have one
machine. I will run the bot overnight and see what happens.

[Owen Pauling]

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Code is in the repository if anyone wants to check it out.