Simulate Right Click "Save Image As"

[Error7]

I want to be able to save jpg images which are refreshed in the web browser every 30 seconds. The website gives access to saving the images by a right mouse click but I would like to do this in code if possible.

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[Hypetia]

If you know the URL of the jpg file, you can use the URLDownloadToFile function to download the image directly, without rendering the web page in the browser.

See thread222-1150309

 

[AndyGroom]

I suspect this post is closely linked to "Web Browser Inner Text" in which case there is no 'filename' involved.

Error7 I would suggest simply using BitBlt to capture the relevant area of the parent window since in your particular case it doesn't move and is always the same size.

- Andy
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[Error7]

Yes Andy, spot on. I can't download the image directly with that URL. I can download the image with a different URL that indirectly connects to the same site but the images only refresh every 4 minutes as opposed to every 30 seconds.

I did consider capturing the image but that means I can't have the form minimised.

Thanks anyway guys.

Alan

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[Error7]

To further clarify, the first URL refreshes every 30 seconds but I can't download the image.

http://www.trafficengland.co.uk/tra...hanet.org.uk/cctvpublicaccess/html/31708.html

With this URL, I can download the image but it only refreshes every 4 minutes or so. Or at least it used to up until the 2nd August. Since then none of the images have updated at all.

http://m.gmgrd.co.uk/traffic/images/31708.jpg?

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[MakeItSo]

Might I warn you that what you are attempting sounds a bit like image theft?
You know that mustn't simply download images from whatever website?

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[AndyGroom]

Try placing the form off the edge of the screen, you should still be able to capture it.

- Andy
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[Error7]

These images are available to the public from a Government website.
They can be saved to your HD by right clicking on them.
They are quite poor quality and not worth a bean to anybody.

I am not stealing them, I just want the ability to record them on the rare occasions when I need to so that I can review them at a later time.

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