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Author Topic: Beginner here: How to schedule autocapture screen over a period of time  (Read 6,910 times)

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Can you elaborate and tell us a little more about what you'd like to do?

sdml

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I'm trying to run an experiment and would need the program to take a snapshot of the current screen every 30 minutes if that helps a bit.

ayryq

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Right-click systray icon
Capture Options
Engage auto-capture timer

Set it up in
Preferences
Basic Capturing
Auto Capture Timer Options

Don't know if you can capture until "forever" - mouser would have to answer that. Or maybe try "0" and see what happens.

ayryq

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(For 30 minutes you need every 1800000 ms)

sdml

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Thank you. I'm currently not at my desktop but will try it out once I get home.

sdml

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Thank you for the clear cut instructions ayryq. The auto-timer capture function works perfectly. Much appreciated!

ayryq

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I'm certainly glad I could help - plus I learned something new myself.

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