Load Session in Batch mode and create screenshot or animation file of each window

Sebastian_Karp
Sebastian_Karp
Altair Employee
edited March 28 in Altair Exchange

Overview

You can use the 2 example scripts attached from a Shell (Windows / Linux) to let it read a pre-definded session (also example attached) and export a screenshot or animation (select desired example script) of each session window.

Pre-Requisite

Save your session as .MVW that should be used subsequentially with this script.

 

Script  "Batch_screenshots.tcl"  will create a screenshot file for each window (JPEG).

Script  "Batch_animations.tcl"   will create an animation file for each window (GIF).

 

You can edit the file formats used in lines 88 and the resolution in lines 94 of the scripts.

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Allowed formats for screenshots: 
BMP and JPEG.

Allowed formats for animations:
"AVI", "AMF", and "GIF" (one file contains the entire animation) or "PNG", "JPEG", "BMP" and "TIFF" (a numbered series of still image files comprising the entire animation).

Usage/Installation Instructions

execute on Windows from Shell:

<ALTAIR_INSTALL>\hw\bin\win64\hw.exe -b -tcl <path-to-TCL>\Batch_screenshots.tcl -sessionfile example_session_Crash.mvw

execute on Linux from Shell:

<ALTAIR_INSTALL>/altair/scripts/hw -b -tcl <path-to-TCL>/Batch_screenshots.tcl -sessionfile example_session_Crash.mvw

 

Note that in later HW version the executable path is:

<ALTAIR_INSTALL>\hwdesktop\hw\bin\win64\hw.exe

 

Use "Batch_animations.tcl"  accordingly.

 

The screenshot / animation files are created in SHELL folder.

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