Print screen

[Per9922]

Hello,

I have an application there I would like to print the screen. It is possible from VBScript to print the screen ? I have two monitors to my application, can I seléct which monitor I would like to print ?

Thanks Per

 

[xwb]

If you run as cscript, the output will be in the cmd prompt. If you run as wscript, there will be a message box for every WScript.echo.

You could recode it as an hta.

http://www.codescript.co.uk/hta_tutorials.htm

 

[Per9922]

Hello xwb,

Thanks for the response. Maybe I explained alittle bad. My application will be on two monitors. The two minitprs work independent. I would like to have button on each monitors that prints the contest of that monitor.

Regards
Per

 

[Geates]

Painstakingly... You'll need a separate program to capture the screen because a print screen cannot be sent to an application via a script.

If it could, however, this is you could do it.
Use keystrokes to capture the screen, paste to a document and then print

set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

'capture screen
objShell.sendKeys "{PRTSC}"
wscript.sleep 500

'open wordpad and "wait until ready"*
objShell.run "wordpad"
do 
	ready = objShell.AppActivate ("wordpad")
	wscript.sleep 1000
loop until ready = true
wscript.sleep 500

'paste (send CTRL + v) and wait for a second
objShell.sendKeys "^v"
wscript.sleep 500

'open print dialog (send CTRL + p)
objShell.sendKeys "^p"
wscript.sleep 500

'print (send ALT + p)
objShell.sendKeys "%p"

*Scripts tend to run faster than GUI application. AppActivate will return True when ready so use it in a loop bring focus to the app and proceed when ready

-Geates

http://ns7.webmasters.com/caspdoc/html/vbscript_language_reference.htm