Bugzilla – Bug 6317
Modify the screen capture utility to write directly to SD card if installed
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:25:05 UTC
To make capturing screens easier for non-*nix literate users, would it be possible to modify the screen capture function to write the BMP files directly to /mnt/mmc if an SD card is present? This would allow someone access to screen captures without hassling with remote login, SSH, and scp.
Bug isn't it a worthy goal to educate the unwashed masses to use better tools? ;) I saw something buried in the checkins where Richard had set logging to be to the SDcard if it's mounted, so this should be possible. It's a matter of whether the logging code was in C or Lua.
Created attachment 2504 [details] write to /mnt/mmc if it's mounted. this checks /proc/mounts to make sure /mnt/mmc is in there, then redirects the image output to /mnt/mmc if the sdcard has been mounted.
richard: how does this patch look to you?
Looks good to me.
It's in trunk at r1152.
(In reply to comment #0) > To make capturing screens easier for non-*nix literate users, would it be > possible to modify the screen capture function to write the BMP files directly > to /mnt/mmc if an SD card is present? This would allow someone access to > screen captures without hassling with remote login, SSH, and scp. > You guys TOTALLY ROCK! Thanks. While I agree that we need to teach the great unwashed the benefits of CHMOD and other arcanae, that's a Sisyphean task. This is the right thing to do. I'll update my Jive and give it a try.
Jim, you'll need to wait until tomorrow after the next nightly build.
Verified - press and hold REW + PAUSE till a BEEP is heard to capture an image to the SD card. Make sure your SD card is write able, if you've not cleanly unmounted the SD card from the system (e.g. pulled out the battery) JiveOS might refuse to mount the SD card, in which case you need to repair or reformat the SD card.
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