Atari Automated Screen Shots

[Bill Lange]

I received a couple of emails today about the automated screenshot program I wrote early last year.

 

For anyone else that is interested, here are the details:

 

1. The program runs in VB 6.0.

2. It requires that Atari800Win Plus is running.

3. Images are put in C:TEMPIMAGES

 

The images are output as .PCX. Sample image saved as .PNG for attachment purposes.

 

Here is the heart of the code:

 

Needs a little cleaning up, but should work as long as the C:TEMPIMAGES directory exsists.



Bill

Public Sub StartProcessing(strAppName As String)

Dim strAtariApp As String



strAtariApp = strAppName & ".atr"

   

   AppActivate "Atari800Win" ' set the active application

   SendKeys "%(1)", True ' send a Alt-1 to open Attach Disk 1 dialog

   Sleep (1000)  '// Pause for 1 second



   SendKeys strAtariApp, True ' type in name of application to open

   SendKeys "{ENTER}", True ' and press enter

   Sleep (1000)  'Pause for 1 second to attach disk



   SendKeys "+{F5}", True ' Reboot the emulator

   Sleep (3000)  'Pause for 3 seconds to allow reboot and app load

   SendKeys "n", True ' send a N incase of crash



   ' take a snapshot of screen

   SendKeys "{F10}", True ' Press F10 to take a screen shot

   Sleep (1000)  ' Pause for 1 second

    

   SendKeys "C:tempimages" & strAppName & "-r.pcx", True ' save file as

   SendKeys "{ENTER}", True ' and press enter

   Sleep (2000)  ' Pause for 2 seconds to allow for save

      

   SendKeys "{F4}", True ' send start

   Sleep (1000)  ' Pause for 2 seconds to allow for save

     

   ' take another snapshot

   SendKeys "{F10}", True ' Press F10 to take a screen shot

   Sleep (1000)  ' Pause for 1 second



   SendKeys "C:tempimages" & strAppName & "-s.pcx", True ' save file as

   SendKeys "{ENTER}", True ' and press enter

   Sleep (2000)  ' Pause for 2 seconds to allow for save



   DoEvents: DoEvents: DoEvents ' allow windows to process event

  

End Sub

[Zybex]

Nice idea.... Thanks for posting it !

 

Nobody can do this app in C++ and compile it or make a VB executable ??

 

I lost de Visual Basic CD's and i really need an app like this...

[Bill Lange]

I'll make you a VB exe with installer on Fri.

 

Right now, it only works on ATR files, but with a little modification, it should work on any type of file that Atari800Win Plus can open.

 

Bill

[Bill Lange]

Try this.

 

http://www.langesite.com/project1.zip

 

Let me know if this works.

 

It will take a screen shot of anything including "boot error", DOS screens and autorun.sys' menus. If an ATR boots to a game screen, it should work.

 

Bill

[Chrodegang]

Correct me if I am wrong but Atari800Win (I use version 4.0) already has a screenshot feature (key F10) built in. You even can automatically capture sequences of subsequent screenshots (movies) using this emulator.

[Bill Lange]

That is true and I use that "F10"feature.

 

This program allows you to take screen shots of a directory full of ATR files. You can let it run over night and you'll have a few thousand screen shots in the morning.

 

The program loads an atr into the emulator, takes a screen shot, saves it then moves on to the next atr in the list.

 

You don't have to do it manually.

[+doctorclu]

So that runs on a WinPc right?

 

This is really awesome. I would just be content if someone put a zipped file of these screen dumps. That alone would be fun.

[Bill Lange]

Yep, WinPC.

[devwebcl]

 

The program loads an atr into the emulator, takes a screen shot, saves it then moves on to the next atr in the list.

 

cool feature, I was thinking to do something similar,

It's better that is already done

[Bill Lange]

I would just be content if someone put a zipped file of these screen dumps.  That alone would be fun.

 

I have a few thousand screen shots that I made last spring when I started working on this little program. I'm zipping them up now and will put them on my server for you.

[Chrodegang]

This program allows you to take screen shots of a directory full of ATR files.  You can let it run over night and you'll have a few thousand screen shots in the morning.

 

Ah, now I understand.

 

Very interesting.

[Bill Lange]

Here are the screen shots

 

http://www.langesite.com/atari_screens.zip

 

Bill