How to invoke 'PrtSc' Key in JAVA

[Ramesh Kumar Swarnkar]

Hi,
I need to invoke a 'PrtSc' command of keyboard from a Java program. So that it can capture the entire screen-contents as an image. The Java-code should be such that while running in a loop and it will capture the screen as image at every 2 seconds .

I will be very grateful if someone, on this intelligent forum, can suggest me the solution in JAVA.

looking forwards - thanks in advance !!!

Ramesh

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

The only way to use the keyboard's PrScr key would be to use a robot. With sensors and motors and such. No other way to physically press a key that I can think of!

But... if what you're actually interested in is making screen grabs, then just check out the createScreenCapture() method of the java.awt.Robot class.

[Ramesh Kumar Swarnkar]

let me check....robot

[John de Michele]

Or, you could look in the java.awt.event.KeyEvent class for KeyEvent.VK_PRINTSCREEN. If you needed to automate something, you could use that with Selenium to simulate a keypress of the Print Screen key.

John.