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US 8,797,338 B2Granted
Platform agnostic screen capture tool
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorDavid James Malcolm Muir
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Abstract
A method for platform agnostic screen capture is provided. The method includes acquiring screen data from a computer having a display screen, where the screen data represents an image currently displayed on the display screen. The screen data is converted into a representation capable of being expressed in a plurality of software platforms. The representation of screen data is rendered into a vector graphics file that may be published to a plurality of platforms.
Claims16
A method, comprising:
- setting, on a system, a screen breakpoint corresponding to a particular point during the execution of a program;
- responsive to detecting the particular point during the execution of the program has been reached, generating a vector graphics screen capture file comprising a platform-agnostic depiction of a current screen output of the program, wherein an operating system of the system is configured to render a platform-specific depiction of the current screen output of the program, wherein the platform-agnostic depiction of the current screen output includes a platform-agnostic depiction of a first graphical element, and wherein the platform-specific depiction of the current screen output includes a platform-specific depiction of the first graphical element that is visually different from the platform-agnostic depiction of the first graphical element, comprising:
- instructing the operating system of the system to generate vector graphics data that depicts a generalized view of the current screen output of the program that is not specifically adapted to any particular operating system, by using a vector graphics library component instead of a native rendering library of the operating system;
- and
- saving the vector graphics data as the vector graphics screen capture file.
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A method, comprising:
- setting, on a system, a screen breakpoint corresponding to a particular point during the execution of a program;
- responsive to detecting the particular point during the execution of the program has been reached, generating a vector graphics screen capture file comprising a platform-agnostic depiction of a current screen output of the program, wherein an operating system of the system is configured to render a platform-specific depiction of the current screen output of the program, wherein the platform-agnostic depiction of the current screen output includes a platform-agnostic depiction of a first graphical element, and wherein the platform-specific depiction of the current screen output includes a platform-specific depiction of the first graphical element that is visually different from the platform-agnostic depiction of the first graphical element, comprising:
- instructing the operating system of the system to generate vector graphics data that depicts a generalized view of the current screen output of the program that is not specifically adapted to any particular operating system, by using a vector graphics library component instead of a native rendering library of the operating system;
- and
- saving the vector graphics data as the vector graphics screen capture file;
- and
- generating an end user documentation containing published versions of the vector graphics screen capture file for a plurality of different operating systems.
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