screenshot from selection

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#1

Hi,

I need a script to make a screenshot where I can specify in pixels where on the screen the shot is from.
I’ve only seen code from scripts doing full screen shots.

#2

This is one possible solution:

-- Grab Selection
-- The default output file is ~/Desktop/MySelection.tiff.
-- If it exists, then a sequential number is appended.
-- The file format can be changed to png, pdf, jpg or other formats. 
-- The cursor expanding the selected area shows the pixel count.
tell current application
	activate
	set existingFileNames to every paragraph of (do shell script "ls " & quoted form of POSIX path of (path to «class desk»))
	if "MySelection.tiff" is not in existingFileNames then
		set validName to "MySelection.tiff"
	else
		set x to 1
		repeat until "MySelection" & space & x & ".tiff" is not in existingFileNames
			set x to x + 1
		end repeat
		set validName to "MySelection" & space & x & ".tiff"
	end if
	delay 3 -- time to promote an area of interest if necessary.
	do shell script "screencapture -i -t tiff ~/desktop/" & quoted form of validName
end tell
#3

I need a script where I don’t manually specify the area of the shot. I want the script to specify in pixels the area.

#4

Yeah, I’d like to have something like this too.

I’m not quite sure where your (Flex20’s) script designates the pixel coordinates.

Anyone else?

#5

Hello.

I believe you could make it happen by executing cliclick from a do shell script, performing the selection, before or after , executing screen capture from the next do shell script (with the -i option). (The do shell script which would need to go to the background in ordr to run the next do shell script would need to end with " 2>&1 >/dev/null &" or similar.) And I haven’t tried to ever select an area with cliclick, but I think it should work.