Screenshot save dialog

GameMaker & Construct 2 plugins to let user pick where to save screenshot(s). · By YellowAfterlife

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Save specific surface?

A topic by twistoon created Jul 29, 2020 Views: 280 Replies: 7

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twistoon3 years ago

Hi, is there a way that we can save a specific surface with this rather than just the screen in html5 please? :) Thank you

YellowAfterlifeDeveloper3 years ago

This extension uses a trick involving drawing the GM canvas onto another canvas to get base64 of it, but surfaces are not canvases on WebGL.

I think your best bet would be to grab pixels using buffer_get_surface, then grab a raw buffer object (Uint8Array I think? Or maybe ArrayBuffer) using buffer_get_address, then convert those pixels into ImageData, then putImageData it onto canvas, and then you can finally get base64 of it and use the rest of the existing code.

twistoon3 years ago (2 edits)

Hi, Thank you so much for answering, sorry I wasn't clear that I was using Gamemaker... I see that I can go up to the buffer_get_address in gamemaker, but can't see ImageData or putimagedata... so I'd have to make an extension from there in JS for it to work? :)

YellowAfterlifeDeveloper3 years ago

Correct - either make an extension or edit this same one (since it has some of the code anyway)

twistoon3 years ago

Thankyou :) I'll give it a go, I hadn't seen that the code was with the extension.

TibiSoft3 years ago

Hey, this extension is great. However I am just wondering if the surface can be saved without user dialogue? I mean to save a surface to a file which can be loaded later, without asking user to provide/select the filename? (I am using GM and looking for a solution for HTML5).

YellowAfterlifeDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

If you want to save the surface "somewhere" but not necessarily in a user-accessible location, you could use buffer_get_surface and then buffer_base64_encode to convert it to a string you could save (or, perhaps, buffer_save will also work).

TibiSoft3 years ago

Thanks for your reply. I tried some way, maybe the problem is at my end, but could not get it work.

Surface_save works well on windows.exe (but not with html5), however buffer_get_surface+buffer_save or buffer_get_surface+buffer_base64_encode+file_text_write_string did not work at all.

Anyway, thank you.

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Screenshot save dialog

Save specific surface?