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This function will take a screenshot.

Screenshot()

Parameters

Arguments

()

Returns

nil

Example

/script Screenshot();

Result

This function does same thing as pressing the PrtScn button on your keyboard. It will capture a screen image and write it to a file.

Naming

Save a file with the following format: "WoWScrnShot_MMDDYY_HHMMSS.tga".

Path

"...\World of Warcraft\Screenshots".

Format

The format can be controlled by the "screenshotFormat" Config.wtf variable which was introduced in Patch 1.11. It can be set to "tga" or "jpeg".

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