Simple as the title states: Can you use only Java commands to take a screenshot and save it? Or, do I need to use an OS specific program to take the screenshot and then gra
If you'd like to capture all monitors, you can use the following code:
GraphicsEnvironment ge = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
GraphicsDevice[] screens = ge.getScreenDevices();
Rectangle allScreenBounds = new Rectangle();
for (GraphicsDevice screen : screens) {
Rectangle screenBounds = screen.getDefaultConfiguration().getBounds();
allScreenBounds.width += screenBounds.width;
allScreenBounds.height = Math.max(allScreenBounds.height, screenBounds.height);
}
Robot robot = new Robot();
BufferedImage screenShot = robot.createScreenCapture(allScreenBounds);
You can use java.awt.Robot
to achieve this task.
below is the code of server, which saves the captured screenshot as image in your Directory.
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.SocketTimeoutException;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
public class ServerApp extends Thread
{
private ServerSocket serverSocket=null;
private static Socket server = null;
private Date date = null;
private static final String DIR_NAME = "screenshots";
public ServerApp() throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException, Exception{
serverSocket = new ServerSocket(61000);
serverSocket.setSoTimeout(180000);
}
public void run()
{
while(true)
{
try
{
server = serverSocket.accept();
date = new Date();
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("_yyMMdd_HHmmss");
String fileName = server.getInetAddress().getHostName().replace(".", "-");
System.out.println(fileName);
BufferedImage img=ImageIO.read(ImageIO.createImageInputStream(server.getInputStream()));
ImageIO.write(img, "png", new File("D:\\screenshots\\"+fileName+dateFormat.format(date)+".png"));
System.out.println("Image received!!!!");
//lblimg.setIcon(img);
}
catch(SocketTimeoutException st)
{
System.out.println("Socket timed out!"+st.toString());
//createLogFile("[stocktimeoutexception]"+stExp.getMessage());
break;
}
catch(IOException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
break;
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
System.out.println(ex);
}
}
}
public static void main(String [] args) throws IOException, SQLException, ClassNotFoundException, Exception{
ServerApp serverApp = new ServerApp();
serverApp.createDirectory(DIR_NAME);
Thread thread = new Thread(serverApp);
thread.start();
}
private void createDirectory(String dirName) {
File newDir = new File("D:\\"+dirName);
if(!newDir.exists()){
boolean isCreated = newDir.mkdir();
}
}
}
And this is Client code which is running on thread and after some minutes it is capturing the screenshot of user screen.
package com.viremp.client;
import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.Robot;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.util.Random;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
public class ClientApp implements Runnable {
private static long nextTime = 0;
private static ClientApp clientApp = null;
private String serverName = "192.168.100.18"; //loop back ip
private int portNo = 61000;
//private Socket serverSocket = null;
/**
* @param args
* @throws InterruptedException
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
clientApp = new ClientApp();
clientApp.getNextFreq();
Thread thread = new Thread(clientApp);
thread.start();
}
private void getNextFreq() {
long currentTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
Random random = new Random();
long value = random.nextInt(180000); //1800000
nextTime = currentTime + value;
//return currentTime+value;
}
@Override
public void run() {
while(true){
if(nextTime < System.currentTimeMillis()){
System.out.println(" get screen shot ");
try {
clientApp.sendScreen();
clientApp.getNextFreq();
} catch (AWTException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
System.out.println(" err"+e);
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
//System.out.println(" statrted ....");
}
}
private void sendScreen()throws AWTException, IOException {
Socket serverSocket = new Socket(serverName, portNo);
Toolkit toolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
Dimension dimensions = toolkit.getScreenSize();
Robot robot = new Robot(); // Robot class
BufferedImage screenshot = robot.createScreenCapture(new Rectangle(dimensions));
ImageIO.write(screenshot,"png",serverSocket.getOutputStream());
serverSocket.close();
}
}