ScreenCapture

 

Compatibilities: Required Xtras: Sharp Image Export Xtra

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You could use Sharps image xtra to save screenshots of the stage to the disk at runtime, sure, the movie will slow down during footage, but the result will look good after creating a video of it. http://www.sharp-software.com Here is a script that uses it. You can save in 3 diffrent formats depending on os. you can set name and number of chars used in framenaming. its set to capture in 16bit

-- @name ScreenCapture -- @type parent -- @version 0.1 -- @author Christoffer Enedahl -- @Dependencies Sharp Image Export Xtra http://www.sharp-software.com -- @description a screencapture script to use with Sharps Image exporter -- @description you can save in 3 diffrent formats depending on os. you can set name and -- @description its set to capture in 16bit -- -- @usage -- Initiate -- @usage gScreenCapture = script("ScreenCapture").new() -- @usage gScreenCapture.SetFileType( "bmp" ) -- -- @usage -- Take picture, perhaps in a keydown script, or keypressed for continual capture -- @usage gScreenCapture.SaveFrame() -- -- @usage --clean up -- @usage gScreenCapture.terminate() property pMember property pXtra property pFrame property pErrCodes property pName property pNumChar property pCompression property pFileType on new me   pMember      = new(#bitmap)   pMember.name = "ScreenCapturePlaceholder"   pXtra        = new (xtra "SharpExport")   pFrame       = 0   pName        = the moviename   pNumChar     = 5   pCompression = 80   pFileType    = "png"   pErrCodes = ["destination file can not be written",                "out of memory","wrong number of args","bad parameter",                "castmember not found","castmember media not found",                "castmember is not a bitmap","unsupported bitdepth (JPEG support is 8 bits or higher)",                "JPEG compression failed (internal error with JPEG library)",                "PNG compression failed (internal error with PNG library)"]   vRect = the stage.Rect   pMember.image = image(vRect.width, vRect.height,16)   return me end on SetName me,aName   pName = aName end on SetCharNum me,aNum   pNumChar = aNum end on SetFileType me, aFileType   case aFileType of     "png","jpg"    :       pFileType = aFileType       return true     "bmp":       if the environment.platform contains "mac" then return false --not supported in macintosh       pFileType = aFileType       return true     "pct":       if the environment.platform contains "win" then return false --not supported in windows       pFileType = aFileType       return true   End case   return false end on SaveFrame me   pFrame = pFrame + 1   vRect = the stage.Rect   pMember.image.copyPixels( (the stage).image, rect(0,0,vRect.width, vRect.height), rect(0,0,vRect.width, vRect.height))   vStr = string(pFrame)   repeat while vStr.length < pNumChar --Numeric chars     vStr = "0"& vStr   end repeat   vFilePath = the moviepath & pName & vStr & "."& pFileType   case pFileType of     "jpg":       errCode = pXtra.exportJPG(pMember, vFilePath , min(100,max(1, pCompression)) )     "PNG":       errCode = pXtra.exportPNG(pMember, vFilePath)     "BMP": -- win only       errCode = pXtra.exportBMP(pMember, vFilePath)     "PCT": -- mac only       errCode = pXtra.exportPICT(pMember, vFilePath)   end case   if errCode <> 0 then me.showError(errCode) end on showError me, errCode   if the runMode <> "Author" then     alert "An error has occurred while exporting the image." & RETURN & "The error code is: " & errCode & RETURN & RETURN & "Image export failed."   else     alert "An error has occurred while exporting the image." & RETURN & RETURN & "The error code is: " & errCode & RETURN & pErrCodes[abs(errCode)] & RETURN & RETURN & "Image export failed."   end if end on terminate me   pMember.erase()   pMember = void   pXtra = void end