I am working on some sort of animation maker with tkinter but I have run into a problem, i would want to save the current application window or canvas widget to a .png file for later use, is this possible? Thanks in advance.
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Of course, just store the values with the variables somewhere and write a function to get them. – Thingamabobs Jul 01 '20 at 15:19
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Not what i meant @Atlas435 – chboo1 Jul 01 '20 at 15:22
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Take a canvas widget and store the visual representation (What you see) as a .png . – chboo1 Jul 01 '20 at 15:23
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You cant do it with tkinter. You may find something here:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2846947/get-screenshot-on-windows-with-python – Thingamabobs Jul 01 '20 at 15:31
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@chboo1 It is a good practice to accept/upvote the answer, if it was helpful. – Roshin Raphel Jul 21 '20 at 17:32
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import pyautogui
myScreenshot = pyautogui.screenshot()
myScreenshot.save(r'Path to save screenshot\filename.png')
And there it is ! ^^
And if you don't want everything else on your screen, you can try to crop it with pil
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3@Atlas435 Related to your comment: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40938868/taking-screenshots-with-pil – shreyasm-dev Jul 01 '20 at 15:36
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That's right haha, I took the first method but why make it complicated when you can do simple ? – Quantum Sushi Jul 01 '20 at 15:38
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@TheMachinist Python says this: Traceback (most recent call last): File "screenshot.py", line 1, in
import pyautogui ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyautogui' – chboo1 Jul 21 '20 at 19:20 -
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thanks that works just fine for me `pip3 install pyautogui` made it install easy – chboo1 Jul 21 '20 at 19:33