ScreenCapture Bug

[armsys]

According to the Bible:

ScreenCapture>X1,Y1,X2,Y2,Filename
Captures a portion of the screen to a .BMP (bitmap) or .JPG (jpeg) file and (by default) to the clipboard.

In actuality, the clipboard is been emptied, not filled up with image data.
Please verify. Thank you.

[armsys]

The following code should prove that the ScreenCapture doesn't save the captured image to the clipboard as defined in the manual.

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Let>SCREENCAP_CLIPBOARD=1
Let>ScreenCapture=
// Capture the entire screen
GetScreenRes>Width,Height
ScreenCapture>0,0,Width,Height,C:\Windows\Temp\Test.bmp
GetClipBoard>ScreenCapture
Length>ScreenCapture,Len
MDL>ScreenCapture
MDL>Len

[hagchr]

Hi, If I use your code and then directly do a ctrl-v in eg OneNote or Word it gets pasted correctly so the picture seems to be in the clipboard. Could it be that GetClipBoard> only can get plain text?

[armsys]

Hi, If I use your code and then directly do a ctrl-v in eg OneNote or Word it gets pasted correctly so the picture seems to be in the clipboard. Could it be that GetClipBoard> only can get plain text?

I can confirm your observation. That's, the image stored in the clipboard generated by SceenCapture can be pasted to Word.
You raise a critically important question--Could it be that GetClipBoard> only can get plain text?
In other words, likely both WriteLn and GetClipboard can't handle binary data.
Hope Marcus will be kind enough to clarify the confusion.

[Marcus Tettmar]

GetClipboard and PutClipboard are for text.

[armsys]

Thanks for your confirmation and clarification.