hm_windowtofile

Capture a rectangular area of the screen and save it to a file.

Syntax

hm_windowtofile x y width height filename

HyperMesh Tcl GUI Command

This command saves to a file the rectangular window area specified by you.

This command is only available and supported on Windows.

x: The upper left window corner x-coordinate. This is relative to the root window.
y: The upper left window corner y-coordinate. This is relative to the root window.
width: The width of the window in pixels.
height: The height of the window in pixels.
filename: The full path and filename of the image to save.

To get the modeling window coordinates and copy the modeling window to a file:

foreach {x y w h} [hm_getgraphicsarea] {}
hm_windowtofile $x $y $w $h c:/graphicsarea.bmp

Incorrect usage results in a Tcl error. To detect errors, you can use the catch command:

if { [ catch {command_name...} ] } {
   # Handle error
}

9.0