Director @ Night » Xtras http://www.directoratnight.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:40:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 PRegEx Xtra Coming Soon http://www.directoratnight.com/2008/06/13/pregex-xtra-coming-soon/ http://www.directoratnight.com/2008/06/13/pregex-xtra-coming-soon/#comments Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:20:57 +0000 Raman http://www.directoratnight.com/?p=130 On Direct-L it was announced that an updated version of the PRegEx Xtra for Director 11 will be release in the next few weeks. Great news!

PRegEx is a free, open source, Xtra that brings the power of Perl regular expressions and list handling to Lingo.

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I saw a posting in the Macromedia forums and I started wondering about ways to do a screen grab. I remembered the Shell Xtra by Valentin Schmidt. This might be one of the most powerful Xtras out there, although since I do pure Shockwave for education sort of work I have always avoided Xtras.

I downloaded the Xtra, did a quick google search for ‘capture clipboard shell osx’ and the first link gave me the answer. With the demo file provided by Valentin I just entered the phrase

screencapture -c -m

The clipboard could then be put in a cast member for further processing. If you wanted to create files you could use other commands to do a screencapture straight to a file.

Pretty nifty.

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