Java - Window Image

Question

Does anyone know how to capture a screen shot in Java (not it\'s own screen, but any other window on the desktop and they don\'t necessarily have to be the

Answer 1

Use java.awt.Robot.createScreenCapture().

Here's an example:

    try {
        Robot robot = new Robot();
        Rectangle size = new Rectangle(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit()
                .getScreenSize());
        BufferedImage buf = robot.createScreenCapture(size);
        ImageIO.write(buf, "png", new File("d:/test.png"));
    } catch (AWTException ae) {
        throw new RuntimeException("something went wrong");
    }

Code originally stolen from here.