Module: Castanaut::Plugin::SnapzPro

Defined in:
lib/plugins/snapz_pro.rb

Overview

This module provides primitive support for Snapz Pro, a screencast capturing tool for Mac OS X from Abrosia Software.

Unfortunately Snapz Pro has virtually no AppleScript support so for this plugin to work correctly you must do the following.

  1. Invoke Snapz Pro.

  2. Position the initial window so that it is flush with the left side of the screen & the top of the window is flush with the bottom of the menu-bar. The window’s close button will be below & slightly to the left of the Apple menu.

  3. Click the “Movie…” button & set everything up just the way you want it.

  4. Close all Snapz Pro windows & run your castanaut script as usual :-)

Once your script has finished you’ll have to tell Snapz how & where to save the captured movie manually.

More info: www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#snapz_start_recording(options = {}) ⇒ Object

Tell Snapz to start recording. Will automatically stop recording when the movie is ended, unless you set :auto_stop => false in options.



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# File 'lib/plugins/snapz_pro.rb', line 24

def snapz_start_recording(options = {})
  snapz_invoke

  # Click the "Movie..." button
  move to(332, 130)
  click

  # Start recording
  hit Castanaut::Enter

  unless options[:auto_stop] == false
    at_end_of_movie { snapz_stop_recording }
  end
end

#snapz_stop_recording ⇒ Object

Tell Snapz to stop recording (by invoking it again).



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# File 'lib/plugins/snapz_pro.rb', line 40

def snapz_stop_recording
  snapz_invoke
end