I have a small piece of code that I use to keep track of time - very simply it takes a picture of my desktop every four minutes so that later I can go back over what I've been up to during the day - It works great, except when I connect to an external monitor - this code only takes a screen shot of my laptop screen, not the larger external monitor I'm working from - any ideas how to change the code? I'm running OSX in case that's relevant...
Following the solution given, I made some improvements and the code, for those interested, is under code review at http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/10783/java-screengrab
Answer:
import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.Robot;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.*;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
class ScreenCapture {
public static void main(String args[]) throws
AWTException, IOException {
// capture the whole screen
int i=1000;
while(true){
i++;
BufferedImage screencapture = new Robot().createScreenCapture(
new Rectangle(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize()) );
// Save as JPEG
File file = new File("screencapture"+i+".jpg");
ImageIO.write(screencapture, "jpg", file);
try{
Thread.sleep(60*4*1000);
}
catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
Following the solution given, I made some improvements and the code, for those interested, is under code review at http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/10783/java-screengrab
Answer:
There is a tutorial Java multi-monitor screenshots that shows how to do it. Basically you have to iterate all screens:
GraphicsEnvironment ge = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
GraphicsDevice[] screens = ge.getScreenDevices();
for (GraphicsDevice screen : screens) {
Robot robotForScreen = new Robot(screen);
...
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