Screen Capture with Mouse Cursor

[Darden4]

is there a way to take a screen shot with mouse cursor included? I have used the search button but the only thread i have found is sooo old (2005). Otherwise, waitcursorchange can recognise animated cursor? Cause i don't want WCC triggers after mouse has changed frame.

Ty for help

[Marcus Tettmar]

No, 'fraid not. But what you could do is store the mouse position at the same time using GetCursorPos. In theory you could then edit the captured image to show where the mouse was.

[Darden4]

i don't need to know the mouse position, i give it, i need to know if it's changed there. I mean there r positions where mouse cursor changes color, but the positions aren't always the same, so i scan the screen moving mouse cursor till it changes. But i can't use the wcc cause this cursor is animated and that functions doesn't work well with it, and i can't use screencapture cause it doesn't capture the cursor...so what could i do?!?!

[JRL]

If you can install IrFanView on your computer you can capture a screen image that includes the cursor.

After install open IrFanView and go to the Options pulldown menu, select Capture Screenshot from the menu. Once there make sure the Include Cursor checkbox is checked. Save and exit IrFanView.

Now you can include lines similar to the following in your Macro Scheduler script.

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Let>RP_WAIT=1
Run>C:\Program Files\IrfanView\i_view32.exe  /capture=0 /convert=%TEMP_DIR%ScreenCap.jpg  

/Capture= values are 0 for entire screen, 1 for the foreground window and 2 for the client area of the foreground window.

[Darden4]

nice ty, is it possible to capture an area from macro scheduler? I mean something like

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Let>RP_WAIT=1 
Run>C:\Program Files\IrfanView\i_view32.exe /capture=[code of area capture] [X1,Y1,X2,Y2] /convert=%TEMP_DIR%ScreenCap.jpg 

EDIT:doh the site is down

[Me_again]

Sure:

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Let>RP_WAIT=1
Let>xstart=100
Let>ystart=40
Let>wide=200
Let>high=100
Run>C:\IrfanView\i_view32.exe  /capture=0 /crop=(%xstart%,%start%,%wide%,%high%)  /convert=c:\test\ScreenCap.gif  

Note that you can save the capture as a different file type by changing the extension of the /convert filename. MacroScheduler usually works with .bmp's.

[Darden4]

ty all