Screen dump

[neon]

Just wondering if there was any sort of software or script that people new of to take screen dumps at regular intervals... I have some software that allows me to take regular shots on a webcam and output it to jpg... just wondering if I could do this for screen dumps....

[jamesreedersmith]

For what purpose - training videos or security of what people are on?

[timzim]

Gadwin PrintScreen is free & does the job nicely - outputs to jpg, clipboard or printer - you choose. Edited November 11, 2009 by timzim

[neon]

I had an idea about setting up a kind of messaging system where children could open a webpage and the picture just showed my screen with messages on it... also if i could use it on our display screens I could control them all from one central location? thought it would be easier to put a updating jpeg into html than to record a video etc...

[timzim]

Gadwin probably not what you want then, my apologies.

[dhicks]

I had an idea about setting up a kind of messaging system where children could open a webpage and the picture just showed my screen with messages on it... also if i could use it on our display screens I could control them all from one central location? thought it would be easier to put a updating jpeg into html than to record a video etc...

 

You can't just have a central web page which you update?

 

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David Hicks

[mac_shinobi]

A helpdesk type system ?

 

On-demand Help desk, Customer Support & Service SaaS from OP Software - My Little Helpdesk

 

Spice works has a ticket / helpdesk type system as well and am sure you could find other free ones if thats what you are after

[neon]

You can't just have a central web page which you update?

 

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David Hicks

 

Why not? It is working at the minute? simple html page all it does is look at a jpeg... just need to update the jpeg?

 

I only want to send information not recieve it back...

[mac_shinobi]

Why not? It is working at the minute? simple html page all it does is look at a jpeg... just need to update the jpeg?

 

I only want to send information not recieve it back...

 

A utility like mwsnap or something that u can configure to take screen dumps every few seconds and replaces the existing screen dump with the same name and use something like JavaScript to just refresh the same htm page every so many seconds that's a shorter period then the period your takng the screen grabs - u may have to tweak time settings

 

or

 

a vnc client or ab tutor that will do that for u

[webman]

SCWewbCam

[neon]

Thank you exactly what I wanted!

[dhicks]

simple html page all it does is look at a jpeg... just need to update the jpeg?

 

Yes, but if all you're displaying on the jpeg is text you can simply type whatever your messages are straight into the HTML page, cutting out the convert-to-an-image stage entirely. I think I might have misunderstood exactly what you're using this system for - are you simply display a page of text messages on a screen?

 

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David Hicks