set a single keyboard shortcut for screenshot of frontmost window

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#1

Don’t see how to do this with the Keyboard sys pref, so…

Anyone have thoughts on how to reconfigure the shortcut to take a screenshot of (only) the frontmost window?

Command Shift 4 plus spacebar gets old when you do it 20 or 30 times in a row…

#2

try this AutoFetishist, save as an application, just alter the delay and amount of shots to suit

set dFolder to "~/Desktop/screencapture/"
do shell script ("mkdir -p " & dFolder)
repeat 20 times -- alter repeat to suit
	set tTime to do shell script "date +%H%M%S"
	do shell script ("screencapture -i -w " & dFolder & tTime & ".png")
	delay 2 --alter to suit
end repeat

or, if you wanted to have more input into how many repeat times you want to capture:

set dFolder to "~/Desktop/screencapture/"
do shell script ("mkdir -p " & dFolder)
set RepeatAmount to text returned of (display dialog "How many times to repeat capture?" default answer "20")
repeat RepeatAmount times -- alter repeat to suit
	set tTime to do shell script "date +%H%M%S"
	do shell script ("screencapture -i -w " & dFolder & tTime & ".png")
	delay 2 --alter to suit
end repeat
#3

Sorry Budgie, just noticed your reply.
Thank you.

So, to clarify,
screencapture -i -w
is the code that does a screenshot of just the front window, right?

And going even deeper,
Is there anyway to designate just a portion of the screen, meaning to specify the screenshot in terms of screen coordinates?

(I need to frequently snap a certain block of the screen, but 30 or 40 times in a row, so a single keyboard s-cut would be handy)

#4

Hello.

Here is a free fancy little taker of predefned screenshots among other things.

I leave the testing of the utility to you. :slight_smile:

#5

give this a spin, you will need to alter the area of screen to be captured

set DestFolder to "~/Desktop/screencapture/"
do shell script ("mkdir -p " & DestFolder)
set RepeatAmount to text returned of (display dialog "How many times to repeat capture?" default answer "2")
repeat RepeatAmount times -- alter repeat to suit
	set TheTime to do shell script "date +%H%M%S"
	set DocTitle to TheTime & ".png"
	set Captureto to "/Users/AutoFetishist/Desktop/screencapture/" & DocTitle -- change user name
	set GetPath to quoted form of Captureto
	do shell script ("screencapture -t  png -x " & GetPath)
	do shell script "sips -c 300 600 " & GetPath & " --out " & GetPath --change to get the area of screen required
	delay 2 --alter to suit
end repeat

yes

just mucking around, added some code to number the file from 1 to what ever amount the repeat amount is
and a dialog to tell you when your captures a complete, finding this useful to me also.

set DestFolder to "~/Desktop/screencapture/"
do shell script ("mkdir -p " & DestFolder)
set RepeatAmount to text returned of (display dialog "How many times to repeat capture?" default answer "2")
set NumberOfShot to 0
repeat RepeatAmount times
	set NumberOfShot to NumberOfShot + 1
	set TheTime to do shell script "date +%H%M%S"
	set DocTitle to NumberOfShot & space & TheTime & ".png"
	set Captureto to "/Users/AutoFetishist/Desktop/screencapture/" & DocTitle -- change user name
	set GetPath to quoted form of Captureto
	do shell script ("screencapture -t png -x " & GetPath)
	do shell script "sips -c 300 600 " & GetPath & " --out " & GetPath --change to get the area of screen required
	--delay 0.3 --uncomment to use
end repeat
activate
display dialog "All Done" giving up after 3
#6

Did the trick. Almost more than I could have asked for.
:wink:
I love raw freeware that (almost) no one’s ever heard of.

Many thanks, McUsr.

#7

Hello

I am glad it works for you. :slight_smile: