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Apple script/ automator
« on: January 04, 2012, 03:10:35 PM »
So I had an idea for a project, but am not yet familiar enough with any of the languages I'm learning to follow through with the idea, so I ended up using apple script and automator. ( A little too user friendly :/ )
My idea was to Have my computer start a program upon log in that takes a screenshot every ten mins, then have that emailed to an anon email address. The problem I ran into was I'm not sure how to make this run in the back ground (where an unsuspecting user will not see it).
Any suggestions?
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Re: Apple script/ automator
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2012, 05:31:54 PM »
No idea how to do it with whatever you want it to be done in, but it would be kinda easy with Delphi... maybe even Python.
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Re: Apple script/ automator
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2012, 05:39:15 PM »
Still learning python, so far I'm liking it a lot better than some other languages.
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Re: Apple script/ automator
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2012, 06:30:43 PM »
Perl got a win32 screenshot module.

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  use Win32::Screenshot;

  $image = CaptureRect( $x, $y, $width, $height );
  $image->Write('screenshot.png');

http://search.cpan.org/~psme/Win32-Screenshot-1.20/Screenshot.pm
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Re: Apple script/ automator
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2012, 07:04:15 PM »
Ande,


Thanks, should be able to make this work. Never really gave much thought to perl after I started python.
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