Hi everyone, I was hoping someone could help me with the following. I have a button that saves a screenshot PNG to the Downloads folder when you press it.
What I want is for the button to disappear after it is pressed, so the screenshot does not include the two menu buttons called “%SaveReport” and “%BackMainMenu”.
The code for the save button is listed below:
`
func _on_SaveReport_pressed():
$"%SaveReport".visible = false
$"%BackMainMenu".visible = false
print("I've disabled the buttons")
print("That means the screenshot SHOULD be button free")
take_screenshot()
$"%SaveReport".visible = true
$"%BackMainMenu".visible = true
`
As you can see, it calls the take_screenshot() function which is listed above:
`
func take_screenshot(): image = get_viewport().get_texture().get_image()
if OS.get_name() == "Web" or OS.has_feature('JavaScript'):
print("We're on the web")
# We're on the web
image.clear_mipmaps()
var buffer = image.save_png_to_buffer()
JavaScriptBridge.download_buffer(buffer, fileName)
if OS.get_name() != "Web" or !OS.has_feature('JavaScript'):
# We're not on the web
print("We're not on the web")
var docs = OS.get_environment("HOME") + "/Documents"
var title = str(docs + "/results",global_ints.observed_person_name, global_ints.observation_minutes,".png")
print(title)
var _saveimage = image.save_png(title)
if OS.get_name() != "OSX":
print("We're not on MacOS")
var _openfolder = OS.shell_open(docs)
if OS.get_name() == "OSX":
print("We're on MacOS")
var _openfolder = OS.shell_open("file://" + docs)
`
The code works. The screenshot is taken and it’s saved to the Downloads folder and MacOS/Windows/Linux open up the Downloads folder straight after.
For the life of me, I can’t figure out why the Back & Screenshot buttons ( “%SaveReport” and “%BackMainMenu”) that I turn invisible BEFORE I call take_screenshot() end up being in the screenshot. Every single time.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thank you!
You will have to “await” the next frame after disabling the buttons, then take the screenshot and re-enable the buttons.
Otherwise you might be able to get the same effect by putting the buttons on a separate layer and excluding it from the screenshot (not sure if it’s actually possible this way, but I strongly suppose so).