Capture screen shot in script

For your first question, simply "Log.Picture(Object)" will take such a screenshot.



As for your second question, there are two things.  There's an option in your Project Properties under the Playback (Tools | Current Project Properties | Playback) for "Post image on error".  Anytime an error is logged using either Log.Error or generated by some other method, a screenshot will be written to the log capturing the whole desktop.  For checkpoints, you can use the OnLogCheckpoint event handler to control what happens when you execute a checkpoint result to the log.

It looks like Log.Picture is used to add an existing picture to the log. I don't see how to generate a screen shot.

As per the help:



[quote] Alternatively, this can be an object that has the Picture method which returns the desired Picture object.[/quote\



So, if you do the following 

function Yada()

{

    Log.Picture(Sys.Desktop, "My Desktop")

}

This will take a picture of your current desktop.  The same could be for any object that is visible on screen as TestComplete usually wraps it with a "Picture" method that will be called to capture the screenshot.



So, say I have a button on a web page, I could call

function yada()

{

     Log.Picture(Aliases.iexplore.page("*").MyPanel.MyButton, "My button screenshot")

}

Thanks to both of you. Looks like that's just what I need.

Hi Samuel,





I have just checked this scenario in TestExecute 8.70, and it works just fine - I see the pictures in the Test Log exported by TestExecute.





What TestExecute version are you using?

Could you try using version 8.70, and let me know the results?

If the problem persists in version 8.70, could you post here is a simple test project demonstrating the problematic behavior?

Here is my code for taking a screenshot. Its in C# but that will run in a Jscript project (or pretty easy to convert).

It will screenshot the entire desktop if you just call it without any parameters (ie takeScreenshoot();) or you can pass in any reference to a mapped object etc to have it screenshot just that.  It will also log a message before it places the screenshot in the log.  The syntax actually came from the help files somewhere (cant remember where - I dont think it was on the pages about logging or taking screenshots)



function takeScreenshot(objectToScreenshot)

  {

  

  if(objectToScreenshot==null)

    {

    Log["Checkpoint"]("Taking a screenshot of the entire desktop")

    Sys["Clipboard"] = Sys["Desktop"]["Picture"]();

    Log["Picture"](Sys["Clipboard"]);

    }

  else

    {

    Log["Message"]("Taking a picture of " + objectToScreenshot)

    Log["Picture"](objectToScreenshot);

    }

  }