ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK – VBScript and VB6 – Take Screenshots On Timer

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ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK – VBScript and VB6 – Take Screenshots On Timer

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take screenshots on timer in VBScript and VB6 with ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK

take screenshots on timer in VBScript and VB6

Every ByteScout tool contains example VBScript and VB6 source codes that you can find here or in the folder with installed ByteScout product. Take screenshots on timer in VBScript and VB6 can be implemented with ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK. 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 snippet like this for ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK works best when you need to quickly implement take screenshots on timer in your VBScript and VB6 application. To do take screenshots on timer in your VBScript and VB6 project or application you may simply copy & paste the code and then run your app! Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample VBScript and VB6 codes to implement take screenshots on timer using ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK.

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CaptureScreenAndTakeScreenshotsOnTimer.vbs

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

' set output video file name to .WMV or .AVI file
capturer.OutputFileName = "EntireScreenCaptured.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";             

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


' set the screenshot saving mode type: 0=none (default), 1=onmouseclick, 2=ontimer, 3=manual (using TakeScreenshot() method only)
capturer.ScreenshotSavingType = 2
' set output folder for the screenshots

set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
' directory in which this script is currently running
CurrentDirectory = fso.GetAbsolutePathName(".")

capturer.ScreenshotOutputFolder = CurrentDirectory ' set output folder to the current one
' set image format for the screenshots (png = 0, bmp = 1)
capturer.ScreenshotImageFormat = 0
' set timer period for taking screenshots, in ms
capturer.ScreenshotTimerPeriod = 1000 ' set the timer for 1 second


MsgBox "This script will record 640x480 video from entire screen for 15 seconds. Output video will go to EntireScreenCaptured.avi"

' 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 15 seconds (15000 msec)
WScript.Sleep(15000)

' you may also make manual screenshots
capturer.TakeScreenshot "screenshot1.png"


' stop capturing
capturer.Stop()

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