Screen Grabber

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Contents 1 Overview 2 Use Cases 3 Appearance & Interaction 3.1 On Tap 3.2 On Tap with Hold 4 Constraints 5 Architectural Details 6 Implementation Recommendations 7 Unresolved Issues 8 Questions and Answers

Overview

The Screen Grabber Panel Application is used to capture the screen.

Use Cases

Here are some possible use cases:

• I want to be able to quickly capture the current screen
• I want to be able to draw over this capture using the Sketchbook application
• I want to be able to capture regularly on a timer when phone is in use, to aid in reconstructing what I was doing at a given time.

Appearance & Interaction

On Tap

<Insert Picture>

Copies current screen to the clipboard

On Tap with Hold

Opens a Popup Menu with the following structure:

Item	Action	Constraints
Screen	Captures entire screen to clipboard.
Selection	Shows tool to draw rectangle around region to be captured. This region is then copied to the clipboard
Timed Screen	Shows timer animation indicated remaining time before screen capture

Constraints

(TBD)

Architectural Details

(TBD)

Implementation Recommendations

(TBD)

Unresolved Issues

• How should application be integrated with the Sketchbook application?

Questions and Answers

• Q. What can I use if the GUI screen grabber application is not available?
• A. There is a command line tutorial Screen Shots.