after i finally got everything running reasonably well i’ve noticed that when i take a screenshot of the full desktop the processing sketch window is black
button.py is running scrot (in terminal) on button press, which ive never had a issue with before so it seems to be the sketch window, is there any way i can fix this, and other screen capture that will work?
//raspberry pi 3, processing and terminal are being used here
cheers and any help would be greatly appreciated
Weird. I know of several programs that do this. My computer’s Netflix app does it, for example. I don’t know what the exact cause is, but it’s probably something your-computer-related, not something Processing is doing.
You can always use saveFrame() to grab an image of your sketch. That works at least, right?
My guess is the sketch is opengl (P2D or P3D) and so transparent to scrot when using the default renderer.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=142623 might be useful?
cheers for the help that works great, now i need to stop it overwriting the images. as far as i know this should work
import time
import datetime
import subprocess
def take_photo():
print (“taking photo”)
print (“1”)
imagepath=datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%m_%d_%Y_%H_%M_%S")
print (“2”)
subprocess.call ([“raspi2png -p, (imagepath)”])
print (“3”)
print(“PHOTO_saved_to_path”)
but it stops the script at print(“2”) any idea whats wrong with the subprocess call or is it more complex than i think?
cheers again
The window will also not appear on a VNC remote client.
It shows only a black box. That is really problematic.
Thank you for considering.
