Re: [e-users] emprint: I can't find any instruction on how to use it???

[Christopher M. <cpm...@co...>]

Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> It would appear that on Sep 25, Vincent Pomageot did say:
> 
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> Emprint isn't a module, it's a command line utility. 
> 
> Thank you! It simply never occurred to me that there was such a thing as a
> truly cli screenshot tool... Why I'll bet it's even scriptable ;-)
> Your above line was enough to solve my main problem with it... 
> 
>> The screenshot module is what you're looking for, but it's based on
>> emprint.. so if it's not working..
>>
>> Can you tell me what the result of
>> emprint --help
> 
> It showed me a somewhat informative help screen with which I was able to
> figure out almost everything it mentions. Which solved almost everything I
> couldn't figure out.
> 
> I figured out how to get a full screen snapshot, And how to with the help
> of the mouse, get a snapshot of a region of the screen. But I haven't
> figured out how to select a single window. I set a delay I can work with,
> and use the -w option... And just like the -r option, when the time is up,
> the mouse pointer changes. Only UNLIKE the -r option what I get is the
> whole screen.
Hmm, could have found a bugger there. As I recall, that option was 
working just fine in the past...I'll have to run some tests here and see.

  But I suppose that as long as a window fits on the screen, I
> can capture it by carefully defining a region of it's outer boarders. And I
> don't really care that I can't get it to actually beep. (I haven't yet had
> reason to test the --quality option, And I could care less about THUMBS,
> 
> I'm just happy to get most of it working... Thanks again!
> 

Thanks,
dh