Hello all,
I've been stumbling (more like Stumbling, I hope) across the web looking for something that can do occasional screen captures using a cron job on my casual gaming site server. I was hoping to be able to save screen captures of a few characters as I leveled them up, so people would be able to have something to look at along with blog entries.
So far it looks like a can of worms, or maybe pythons. :D
What I have found:
GD2 (http://blog.thepimp.net/archives/Screen-capture-with-PHP-and-GD.html) seems to be able to do it, but I'm not sure if I'd actually be able to automate it so that the server would be able to do it on its own. If it is something I could automate, would installing these DLL libraries on my GoDaddy site be something to make a noob cry?
Visual Basic seems able to do it too. (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/161299)
But the biggest indication of capability is BrowserShots.org, which goes to any site you want and renders a screen capture.
My question is: would Python or Visual Basic be a better choice, or is it possible to tinker with PHP .dlls in an environment like GoDaddy?
Thank you.