Interesting that nobody seems to have asked this before: Is it possible to make a screenshot of PicoCalc when running WebMite/PicoMite?
I really like to document some things, write blog posts even and put pictures of the screen in. However, I hate to make photos with a camera as they’re always sub optimal.
I searched the MMBasic user manual for “screenshot” but got no hit. Is this really not possible?
save Image “out.bmp”, 0, 0, 319, 319
Fast and Furious:
save image "out
Okay, I see, I need to be more precise: How can I make a screenshot without the text save image "out or sim. (like run) being in the screenshot? Just the current screen as it is.
You’d have to make it run that code somehow.
Since the programs are in BASIC, it should be fairly easy to add something to the program to take the screen shot when a button is pressed, or when certain conditions are met.
What about binding one of the shortcut keys (F1-F5) to the command that screenshots
Assumption: You want to get a screen shot of a currently running program.
PicoMite doesn’t treat the function keys as special in any way. So when a program is running, they generate a keyboard scan code like very other key. It would be really annoying if I wrote a program that used F1, for example, to do something only to have the OS redefine it to do something else.
So assigning to a function key will work, but won’t work when another program is running. It will only work in immediate mode.
I want to able to make a screenshot just like we make screenshots in smartphones or tablets or computers. Regardless whatever state the machine is currently in. I just want a graphics file on the SD card that represents the contents of the screen at that moment when I pressed some key combination or issued some remote (via serial or via wifi) command.