Capturing splash windows

In some cases a window appears as an application starts up and then clears – for example ArtWorks. I don’t know if ‘splash window’ is the correct way to refer to these.

I should like to capture that window but can’t see how to do it. If I use !Paint, the snapshot countdown timer stops while the window is being displayed and it then captures the background image.

I also can’t see how to use !Snapper to do this.

Any ideas please?

Not sure, maybe it will not help but I use
OSCLI "screensave "+out$
or
SYS &2E,2,,out$,0
in a BASIC Loop to “capture” my screen.
out$ means path+spritename with a counter.

The old snapper sources you find here.

One thought is to set snapper to full screen grab, and hit the hotkey(s) as soon as the splash appears

Doesn’t work. The hotkeys are ignored while the splash screen is being displayed – I suspect no Wimp_Poll events are being generated. I have also tried doing a screen capture on VRPC using Greenshot but it doesn’t ‘see’ the VRPC screen content.

Keep getting hit by the logout nasty.

I was meaning use the non-wimp method for full screen capture. This is all done by the module and doesn’t need any wimp polls. This method is normally used for ‘in-game’ snaps, but should work in the wimp as well.

I have also tried doing a screen capture on VRPC using Greenshot but it doesn’t ‘see’ the VRPC screen content.

Have capture RPCEmu with CamStudioPortable for this Testmovie without problems.

If they are done by template files oould you not load the the template file into a template file editor?

I thought of that earlier, but have a suspicion that you’d probably mostly see an empty window with the “draw something here” crosshatch.

In the case of ArtWorks for example, double-click !ArtWorks, hit F12 when the splash screen is up, then *screensave $.screen
Then crop the result in paint…

Cunning plans, many thanks. !Snapper did the business once I set it to auto save. I was using the save dialogue box and it only appeared after the splash screen had disappeared.

Yes. The Save as obviously requires the wimp to be polling in order to function. Direct saves are completed without polling the wimp.

I’ve only recently noticed that when running VirtualRPC under Windows, the Alt-PrintScreen button combination copies the screen (the RISC OS desktop) to the clipboard, and then WinClip makes it available as a sprite. This works regardless of what RISC OS is doing at the time, of course.