AutoHotkey: Make a Screenshot of the current Window with Irfanview
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This script is for those who already use Irfanview and occasional need a screenshot to post it in the Web. The Creation itself is not very quick if you use the PNG format (as I do in the script) for it takes several passes but neverthless you can do a lot shots in a short time.
This script uses Ctrl+Printscreen following the Alt+Printscreen Hotkey of Windows
;This script creates a screenshot of the current window and saves it as shot%Current_Date_and_Time%.PNG in the folder c:\screenshot ;If this folder does not exist already it will be created by the script ;The hotkey is Ctrl + PrintScreen (ususally next key on the right to F12) ;The path has, of course, to be adjusted. ~^PrintScreen:: ; if there is not already a folder c:\screenshot create one ifnotexist,C:\screenshot fileCreateDir, C:\screenshot ; Call the function Adjust(zeit) adjust(zeit) ; run Irfanview with commandline /capture=1 what takes a screenshot of the active window ; (0 would take the whole desktop and 2 only the client area of the active window) ; "/convert=" will save the captured image to the specified filename (and format) ; - in this case shot%timestamp%.PNG ; you may adjust the format as well as the path, but I recommend to keep at least the timestamp run, "%A_ProgramFiles%\IrfanView\i_view32.exe" "/capture=1 /convert=c:\Screenshot\Shot%Zeit%.PNG", msgbox, Ctrl Printscreen return ;take the current system time and convert it to the format 31.12.06_13-22-45 ; i.e day.month.year_Hour-minute-second and return it in the variable "zeit" adjust(ByRef zeit) { formattime,zeit,A_now,dd.MM.yy_HH-mm-ss return }
The following script does the same but uses IrfanView's own filename functions:
^PrintScreen:: ; if there is not already a folder c:\screenshot create one ifnotexist, C:\screenshot fileCreateDir, C:\screenshot ; /capture=0 takes a screenshot of the whole desktop ; /capture=1 takes a screenshot of the active window ; /capture=2 takes a screenshot of the client area of the active window Run, "%A_ProgramFiles%\IrfanView\IrfanView\i_view32.exe" /capture=1 /convert=C:\screenshot\capture_$U(`%Y-`%m-`%d_`%H`%M`%S).png return
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