Screenshots

[Chuck]

Noticed that screen shots, when they occur, especially in BB6 are showing what's on the viewable monitor at the time the 'trigger' to take a screenshot occurs - and because the game is 'minimized', the display is not the game screen. Yet, some of the screen shots are okay-the game screen. The facts 8 out of 117 saved screenshots show the game screen, the others don't.

[Admin1]

Chuck, buried deep in the forums is the explanation - the games will take a screenshot of whatever is 'active'. If there is another application open in front of your game a screenshot will be taken of it instead.

There are probably lots of embarrassing screenshots out there which games are snapping away.

When a game is minimized it will not take screenshots at all.

[Chuck]

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When a game is minimized it will not take screenshots at all.


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?? this is puzzling, because the screenshot I got of LS6, the so called 'perfect score' occurred when the game was minimized. The only thing different was the trigger to stop the game if a score greater than the trigger level was set .. had stopped the game in autoplay.

[Admin1]

Just had another look at the source code Chuck, there is definitely a preclusion in place on screenshots being taken when the games are minimized.

[Chuck]

Well, can't argue that then. But I'll keep an eye out to see how the screenshots are captured .. who knows, they may be an exception that 'jumps' past the exclusion in the source code.

[Admin1]

The code is rather complex in this area, so logic jumps are possible, depending on your game version.