applet webpage image capture

[eunever32]

Hi

We have a vanilla j2ee application with say 1000 users. (windows
client, sparc tomcat)

We would like to offer the ability to select (cut) images from the
application
and paste into a word document.

I notice there are windows applications such as ACASystems Capture,
Snagit, webscreenshot, etopping, screenshotwizard that allow this.

However these tools are a bit intrusive ie the user is aware they are
using 3rd party software.

I would simply like to have button (unique to our web pages) that would
enable a "region screen select".
The user would click x1, y1 then x2, y2 thus selecting a region. This
region would automatically be in the clipboard ready for pasting into a
word document.

Is this possible via a java applet?

Regards

 

[Roedy Green]

Is this possible via a java applet?

You can get a pixel grab of the screen from a SIGNED Applet with the
Robot class. You could then use ImageIO to save it as a png or jpg
file on the local file system. Presumably you can also write it to a
byte array and ship it back to the server.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/robot.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/imageio.html