ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK – VBScript and VB6 – Capture Screen Video and Add Red Text

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ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK – VBScript and VB6 – Capture Screen Video and Add Red Text

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How to capture screen video and add red text in VBScript and VB6 using ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK

This tutorial will show how to capture screen video and add red text in VBScript and VB6

Source code documentation samples provide quick and easy way to add a required functionality into your application. ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK can capture screen video and add red text. It can be used from VBScript and VB6. ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK is the SDK for developers for quick implementation of screen video recording. The SDK records screen into video or into a series of screenshots. Can also record audio. Saves video into AVI,WMV and Google’s WebM. Output video quality, size, resolution or framerate can be adjusted easily. Provides additional tools for privacy features like blacking out on scren areas with sensitive information on screen right during recording. Supports web camera as input and can add instant text and images into video output.

VBScript and VB6 code samples for VBScript and VB6 developers help to speed up coding of your application when using ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK. In your VBScript and VB6 project or application you may simply copy & paste the code and then run your app! You can use these VBScript and VB6 sample examples in one or many applications.

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CaptureScreenAddRedTextOverlay.vbs

      ' create video capturer activex object
Set capturer = CreateObject("BytescoutScreenCapturing.Capturer")

' set output video file name to .WMV or .AVI file
capturer.OutputFileName = "CaptureScreenAddRedTextOverlay.wmv" 

' set capturing type to the caScreen =3 to capture the entire screen
capturer.CapturingType = 3

' output video width
capturer.OutputWidth = 640

' output video height
capturer.OutputHeight = 480

' uncomment to set Bytescout Lossless Video format output video compression method
' do not forget to set file to .avi format if you use Video Codec Name
' capturer.CurrentVideoCodecName = "Bytescout Lossless";             

capturer.OverlayingRedTextCaption = "TESTING OVERLAYING TEXT"

' uncomment to enable recording of semitransparent or layered windows (Warning: may cause mouse cursor flickering)
' capturer.CaptureTransparentControls = true

' run video capturing 
capturer.Run()

' IMPORTANT: if you want to check for some code if need to stop the recording then make sure you are 
' using Thread.Sleep(1) inside the checking loop, so you have the loop like
' Do 
' Thread.Sleep(1) 
' While StopButtonNotClicked

' wait for 5 sec
WScript.Sleep(5000)

' stop capturing
capturer.Stop()

' destroy Capturer object so the video will be saved into the disk
Set capturer = Nothing