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JosDuchIt

Grabbing a menu

Posted on: 2014/11/15 10:28 #1

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Has anybody hints how to grab a menu ?

using SGrab with a delay , open the menu & wait for the delay to finish does not work.
SGrab has an arexx port (appears to be open) so i was hoping to use that, but the commands did not seem to work. Maybe because but it needs easyrexx.library (68k) and i therefor believe some OS4 stub ?
The latter is not on OS4 Depot though (neither an rexxtricks.library stub , which i liiked for in an other context)

Is there an other grab utility that could handle this?

zzd10h

Re: Grabbing a menu

Posted on: 2014/11/15 10:33 #2

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@JosDuchIt

I use FastView for that with a "Delay".

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JosDuchIt

Re: Grabbing a menu

Posted on: 2014/11/15 11:09 #3

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@zzd10h

Can you explain a bit more ?

It seems here that the delay is halted (the delay is counted down in Fastview's window under the right Listview as long as i don't open the menu) when i open the menu

Is this a feature not enabled in the free version ?

As ztools is in my shopping bag, and i still am not able to pay for it, (see Amistore thread) i hope that problem will be solved soon.

zzd10h

Re: Grabbing a menu

Posted on: 2014/11/15 11:23 #4

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@JosDuchIt

I added this feature months ago => in the old os4depot version.

1) specify a delay, for example 5 secondes

2) double-click on "Workbench screen" in screens list to grab the whole screen
OR
hit "free grab" button to grab a part of the screen
OR
double-click on a Windows name in the "Windows list" to grab a specific window

3) now you have 5 seconds to prepare your desired screen, for example by opening the menu that you want to grab

4) the grab will be taken when the right countdown reachs 0 seconds.

5) if you have checked "Hide" checkbox (default), the FastView window will be hidden and will not appear in the grab.

EDIT : but it should work too with SGrab

Edited by zzd10h on 2014/11/15 12:03:26

samo79

Re: Grabbing a menu

Posted on: 2014/11/15 12:52 #5

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@zzd10h

Eh remember this was exactly my problem, might add a tips&tricks section in your readmes

Or maybe one day i will recreate for you a good replacement in HTML, readmes are a nightmare to read

broadblues

Re: Grabbing a menu

Posted on: 2014/11/15 13:17 #6

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If you want to grab a menu, you need to make it non blocking in GUI prefs.

Then SGRab will work.

BTW SGrabs AREXX commands are fully functional and do not require any third party lib,

eg

rx "ADDRESS SGRAB 'GRABSCREEN FILE ram:grab.ilbm'"

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broadblues

Re: Grabbing a menu

Posted on: 2014/11/15 13:28 #7

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@zzd10h

Does your fastview capture mode allow pattern based naming of the images, like SGrab?

Eg my default file is:

FILE=ram:{title}_{size}.{type}

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JosDuchIt

Re: Grabbing a menu

Posted on: 2014/11/15 14:06 #8

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@broadblues
@zzd10h

thanks for the hints

I could grab the screen with a menu open as well with Sgrab as with Fastview

Grabbing a window with its menu open does not work for neither
What i can do is a subsequent "Mark & Grab" with SGrab to grab from the saved screen.

zzd10h

Re: Grabbing a menu

Posted on: 2014/11/15 15:00 #9

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@Samo79
Thank you but I doubt that html or guide file are more read ;)

@Broadblues
The grab are stored in RAM:FastView_Capture_Tyymmdd_hhmmss.JPG

No pattern based name, good idea, I will add it.

@JosDuchIt
You are right, menu grabbing works only if you grab the screen and not a specific window. Maybe because the menu is not part of the window ?

JosDuchIt

Re: Grabbing a menu

Posted on: 2014/11/15 15:40 #10

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@broadblues
Quote:

If you want to grab a menu, you need to make it non blocking in GUI prefs.

What else can you do with this mode?
Are there drawbacks to it ?

Quote:

SGarbs AREXX xommands are fully functional and do not reqyuire any third party lib

Thanks for pointing this out.
I do note from the .guide that easyrexx indeed is optional

broadblues

Re: Grabbing a menu

Posted on: 2014/11/15 17:18 #11

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@JosDuchIt

Quote:

Grabbing a window with its menu open does not work for neither
What i can do is a subsequent "Mark & Grab" with SGrab to grab from the saved screen.

Simply put, grabbing a window, grabs the window, the menu is not part of the window but part of the screen

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broadblues

Re: Grabbing a menu

Posted on: 2014/11/15 17:20 #12

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@zzd10h

Quote:

The grab are stored in RAM:FastView_Capture_Tyymmdd_hhmmss.JPG

No pattern based name, good idea, I will add it.

That's cool. If the patterns were compatable with SGrabs that would be really cool.

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broadblues

Re: Grabbing a menu

Posted on: 2014/11/15 17:23 #13

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@JosDuchIt

Quote:

If you want to grab a menu, you need to make it non blocking in GUI prefs.

What else can you do with this mode?
Are there drawbacks to it ?

It simply means that the workbench isn't locked, so appliaction continue to run as normal. I'm not aware of any drawbacks, perhspa some ancient peice of software might trip up but I never came across one that did.

Quote:

Quote:
SGarbs AREXX xommands are fully functional and do not reqyuire any third party lib

Thanks for pointing this out.
I do note from the .guide that easyrexx indeed is optional

No it's not "optional", it's not needed at all.

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zzd10h

Re: Grabbing a menu

Posted on: 2014/11/19 19:56 #14

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@broadblues

" If the patterns were compatable with SGrabs that would be really cool. "

Done for the next FastView updates. Old and "Advanced" naming for Capture availables in the Preferences window.

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broadblues

Re: Grabbing a menu

Posted on: 2014/11/23 20:42 #15

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@zzd10h

That's cool but not quite what I meant.

SGrab allows freeform patterns like

ram:grab{title}_{size}.{type}

or

work:somedraw/grabs{number}.{type}

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zzd10h

Re: Grabbing a menu

Posted on: 2014/11/23 22:45 #16

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@broadblues

Too bad

JosDuchIt

Re: Grabbing a menu

Posted on: 2014/11/24 9:37 #17

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@broadblues

Your post made me look at the SGrab options.
for GRABSCRKEY & GRABWINKEY i used the examples given (in the SGrab.guide (making use of the PrintScreen button, as well as others
eg
GRABSCRKEY="shift alt s"
GRABWINKEY="f9"

without succes.

I am probably doing something wrong, but can't find oud what.
C keyboard that served me well, i guess it can't be a keyboard issue.

edit: some progress noted
GRABWINKEY="F9" works
GRABSCRKEY="shift alt s" too (edit2)

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