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This function will take a screenshot.

Screenshot()

Parameters

Arguements

()

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" (default), "jpeg" or "png".

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Gilean 13:48, 2 July 2006 (CDT)

Golgor 15:13, 6 April 2006 (EDT)

thejoester 16:39, 26 December 2006 (EDT)