screen_capture Sample in Watir

This simple watir script will take a screenshot and save the to a random number filename.


require 'watir'
require 'watir/screen_capture'
include Watir::ScreenCapture
require 'win32ole'

def take_screenshot
  randfname = Array.new(6) { (rand(122-97) + 97).chr }.join
  begin
    directory_name = File.dirname(__FILE__).gsub('/','\\') +
    "\\screenshots\\#{$randdir}"
    if FileTest::directory?(directory_name)
      filename = "#{directory_name}\\#{randfname}.png"
      screen_capture(filename,false, false)
    else
      Dir::mkdir(directory_name)
      filename = "#{directory_name}\\#{randfname}.png"
      screen_capture(filename,false, false)
    end
  end
end