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javafilescreenshotactionlistenerjavax.imageio
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Reputation: 316

How To Save My Screenshot in java

I'm making a program that takes a screenshot and I want to have it so that i have a JButton with an actionlistener that when pressed it saves the image to a certain folder that if does not already exists it makes.

here is what I thought I should do:

@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
    File dir = new File("C://SnippingTool+/" +  date.getDay());
    dir.mkdirs();
try {
    ImageIO.write(shot, "JPG", dir);
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

    }

});

I think it has something to do with my File dir = new File and that I am not saving to to the right place.

Here is my Robot taking a screenshot:

try {
shot = new Robot().createScreenCapture(new Rectangle(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize()));
    } catch (HeadlessException e1) {
        e1.printStackTrace();
    } catch (AWTException e1) {
        e1.printStackTrace();
    }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 605

Answers (2)

Stephen C
Stephen C

Reputation: 718886

In response to your comment:

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException 
    at main$2$2.actionPerformed(main.java:148)

That is at the:

File output = new File(System.getProperty("user.home") + 
                       date.getDay() + ".jpg");

(I changed the "C:\" to System.getProperty("User.home")).

There are only two possible causes of an NPE in that line (wrapped for readability):

  • If System.getProperty cannot find the named property, it will return a null. Now the "user.home" property should exist ... but "User.home" almost certainly does NOT exist. (Property names are case sensitive!!)

  • If date is null or date.getDay() returns null. We don't know how you initialized date ... or even what type it is. (Though Date would be a good guess ...)

Both the "user.home" property and the "user.dir" property would work ... though they mean different things.

Upvotes: 0

MadProgrammer
MadProgrammer

Reputation: 347234

The problem, as I see it is with these two lines...

File dir = new File("C://SnippingTool+/" +  date.getDay());
dir.mkdirs();

This now means that the output you are trying to write to is a directory, when ImageIO is expecting a file, this will fail...

Instead try something like...

File output = new File("C://SnippingTool+/" +  date.getDay() + ".jpg");
File dir = output.getParentFile();
if (dir.exists() || dir.mkdirs()) {
    try {
        ImageIO.write(shot, "JPG", output);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }    
} else {
    System.out.println("Bad Path - " + dir);
}

Upvotes: 1

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