Screenshots don't work

[Dvondrake]

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[osgeld]

whats your os?

[Dvondrake]

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[Merkoth]

Disclaimer: I've never used this feature. Now, this might seem like a stupid question but, have you tried making sure the screenshot is taken after all drawing has been done?

Example:

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function draw_stuff()
	-- draw teh stuffs
	love.graphics.draw(mah_hump)
	love.graphics.draw(mah_hump_mah_hump)
	love.graphics.draw(mah_hump_mah_hump_mah_hump)
	-- and then take the screenshot
	love.graphics.screenshot()
end

Otherwise LÖVE might be trying to dump an empty buffer. But I might be pulling facts right from my rear end

[Dvondrake]

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[Merkoth]

This be a bug! A bug I say!

Your screenshot should look like this, right?


LÖVE is putting a wrong header into the bmp so most image editors will fail trying to load it. It should be trivial to fix for the next release, I guess.

I tried to write a little Lua function to insert the missing bytes, but it failed miserably, probably because of encoding problems. I'm still wondering why when I call file:write(0x42) Lua will write 0x36 to the file but who knows...

[Dvondrake]

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[rude]

This be a bug! A bug I say!

Yeah, it probably is.

[Jammang]

I'm frustrated that the next release of Love isn't out yet which hopefully will have a fix for this.

Does anyone know a way to get around this bug while we wait for the next release? (for windows)

[Robin]

Well, (talking about digging up old threads that was six months ago...)

You could either use the Print Screen key, or you might try to replicate what Merkoth did -- but you'll have to do that on your own, since Merkoth is very passive lately.