Taking screenshots with opensesame

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• Josh

  July 2016 edited 1:03PM

  Hi Sarah,

  You should be able to achieve this with an inline script. There are python modules for this, see for instance this page: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2846947/get-screenshot-on-windows-with-python

  I am wondering though; what do you want to use this for? You can also deduce what your trial screen would've looked like by logging all experimental variables and then diving into your logfile. I hope you're not planning to assign data to conditions by means of manually looking at hundreds of screenshots?

  Cheers,

  Josh
• s_mcilw

  July 2016 edited 1:03PM

  Hi Josh,

  Okay thank you! I wanted to use it for exactly that but I thought about it after posting and realized that that wouldn't really work.

  Thank you though!
• Daniel

  July 2016 edited 1:03PM

  Just as a reference for someone who is really looking for a way to turn canvases into screenshots: A long time ago, I wrote a script that does exactly this (make screenshots from canvases that is). I planned to make it into a plugin, but never got to it. You can find the code at https://github.com/smathot/OpenSesame/issues/318.

  
• bal

  November 2016 edited November 2016

  Hi,
  I would like to know how to use the code above to save a sketchpad item as an image.
  I copied and pasted the code into a inline script icon (placed after my sketchpad icon), but the code seems to make a new canvas (with text) and then save this item as the image. I need the image saved to be of the sketchpad I have just made. How do I alter the code to do this?
  And how do I alter the code so that the image's filename saves as the name of one of my variables (i.e. I want to set the image name as the name of the original image used in the sketchpad item, save as variable [file_name]). Struggling to do this as filename in the code above is a string, so I'm not sure how to reference a variable here.
  Thanks!