Screenshot Captor from Visual Basic?

[gulfaerospace]

Is there a way to automate Screenshot Captor from visual basic?

Thanks.

[mouser]

In the Screenshot Captor help file you'll find a section on Commandline use and options.

But you might also check out the littler brother of Screenshot Captor called MiniCap, which is a smaller commandline tool designed to be invoked from other programs:
https://www.donationcoder.com/software/mouser/popular-apps/minicap

[gulfaerospace]

I'm sorry, but this does not seem to answer my question.

Visual Basic. My question is about triggering a screen capture from Microsoft Access. Microsoft Access supports Visual Basic.

Not sure how a command line option can help. I'm not trying to start SC in some unique mode. SC is already running and I would like to create a button in Access that executes Visual Basic command(s) to trigger a screen capture.

[mouser]

Invoking Screenshot Captor from the commandline will not create a new instance of Screenshot Captor -- it will instead direct the currently running copy to perform a capture.
So you can invoke it from Visual Basic by launching it with commandline options.

So try from visual basic executing something (with Shell command?) like

Code

C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenshotCaptor\ScreenshotCaptor.exe -capture workspace

[wraith808]

Code: ( vb)

Dim RetVal
RetVal = Shell("C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenshotCaptor\ScreenshotCaptor.exe -capture workspace", 1) 

[gulfaerospace]

Well, that works. It's strangely slow however.

But I appreciate you both taking the time to show me that.

[mouser]

In terms of speed.. I wonder if it's worth adding a way to send a message more directly to the running Screenshot Captor process..

[Ath]

But you might also check out the littler brother of Screenshot Captor called MiniCap, which is a smaller commandline tool designed to be invoked from other programs:
https://www.donation...popular-apps/minicap

You suggested MiniCap before, wouldn't that be a quicker start&capture than the full ScreenshotCaptor executable?