Taking a Screenshot in Java - Revision history

PeterHarding at 00:35, 4 December 2008

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PeterHarding at 00:34, 4 December 2008

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	// To ~~find~~ the screen ~~dimension~~		// To determine the screen dimensions.

	Toolkit toolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();		Toolkit toolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
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	// ~~Get~~ the BufferedImage with createScreenCapture method		// Capture the BufferedImage with createScreenCapture() method.

	Robot robot = new Robot();		Robot robot = new Robot();
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	// ~~Convert~~ BufferedImage to JPG File		// Save the BufferedImage to a JPG File.

	File file = new File(“screen.jpg”);		File file = new File(“screen.jpg”);

PeterHarding at 00:34, 4 December 2008

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	Toolkit toolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();		Toolkit toolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();

PeterHarding at 00:33, 4 December 2008

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	First the screen dimension should be worked out and then create a rectangle with these dimensions. The screen dimansions can be found using the Toolkit class. The following code snippet show how...		First the screen dimension should be worked out and then create a rectangle with these dimensions. The screen dimansions can be found using the Toolkit class. The following code snippet show how...

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	//to find the screen dimension		//to find the screen dimension

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	After getting the screen dimensions, create an instance of the Robot class and copy the rectangle from the screen. The createScreenCapture() method in the Robot class can be used to get the BufferedImage with the rectangular dimension passed as argument to it. The following code snippet demonstrates how this is done...		After getting the screen dimensions, create an instance of the Robot class and copy the rectangle from the screen. The createScreenCapture() method in the Robot class can be used to get the BufferedImage with the rectangular dimension passed as argument to it. The following code snippet demonstrates how this is done...

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	// Get the BufferedImage with createScreenCapture method		// Get the BufferedImage with createScreenCapture method

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	Creating the JPG file from the BufferedImage is possible using the ImageIO API to convert the BufferedImage to the JPG file. The following code snippet show how...		Creating the JPG file from the BufferedImage is possible using the ImageIO API to convert the BufferedImage to the JPG file. The following code snippet show how...

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	// Convert BufferedImage to JPG File		// Convert BufferedImage to JPG File

PeterHarding: New page: Here is how to capture a screenshot and save it as a JPG file using Java. It is done using the ImageIO API for saving the screenshot as the JPG file and using the Robot class to perform t...

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New page: Here is how to capture a screenshot and save it as a JPG file using Java. It is done using the ImageIO API for saving the screenshot as the JPG file and using the Robot class to perform t...

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Here is how to capture a screenshot and save it as a JPG file using Java. It is done using the ImageIO API for saving the screenshot as the JPG file and using the Robot class to perform the screenshot.

First the screen dimension should be worked out and then create a rectangle with these dimensions. The screen dimansions can be found using the Toolkit class. The following code snippet show how...

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//to find the screen dimension

Toolkit toolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
Dimension screenSize = toolkit.getScreenSize();
Rectangle rectangle = new Rectangle(0, 0, screenSize.width, screenSize.height);
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After getting the screen dimensions, create an instance of the Robot class and copy the rectangle from the screen. The createScreenCapture() method in the Robot class can be used to get the BufferedImage with the rectangular dimension passed as argument to it. The following code snippet demonstrates how this is done...

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// Get the BufferedImage with createScreenCapture method

Robot robot = new Robot();

BufferedImage image = robot.createScreenCapture(rectangle);
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Creating the JPG file from the BufferedImage is possible using the ImageIO API to convert the BufferedImage to the JPG file. The following code snippet show how...

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// Convert BufferedImage to JPG File

File file = new File(“screen.jpg”);

ImageIO.write(image, “jpg”, file);
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