Problem writing a screenshot.

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1u4
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Problem writing a screenshot.

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Hi, I'm having trouble writing with the newScreenshot() function.

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function love.load()
	love.filesystem.setIdentity("screenshot")
end

function love.draw()
	took = true
	screenshot = love.graphics.newScreenshot()
	if took then
		took = false
		imageData = screenshot:encode( "png" ) 
		love.filesystem.write( "ss.png", imageData, 500 )
	end
end
Why does imageData = screenshot:encode( "png" ) return nil? What am I doing wrong here?

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Re: Problem writing a screenshot.

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Read up on ImageData:encode again, you're using it incorrectly.
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Re: Problem writing a screenshot.

Post by Inny »

This is what I use (as of 0.8.0)

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function saveScreenshot()
  local name = string.format("screenshot-%s.png", os.date("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"))
  local shot = love.graphics.newScreenshot()
  shot:encode(name, "png")
end
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