Shorty

A QML screenshot utility.

Copyright(C) 2012-2014 Johan Thelin <[email protected]> and Juergen Bocklage-Ryannel <[email protected]>

Shorty is open source software and is available under the GPLv2 license. Please refer to the COPYING document for further details.

Introduction

Shorty can be used to create screenshots / screenshot sequences from QML. The purpose is to produce screenshots or sequences of screenshots for testing and documentation.

Building

Shorty depends on Qt 5.x and uses qmake for building. Issue the following commands to build your copy of shorty:

qmake && make

This results in the binary bin/shorty.

Usage

Simply specify a qml-file to short. From within the qml-file, the global shorty object provides the following functions:

• shorty.shootFull( filename ) - grab a screenshot and save it as filename.
• shorty.shoot( filename ) - grab a screenshot, scale it to 96x96 pixels and save it as filename.
• shorty.sendKeyPress( key ) - send a key press event for key to the scene.
• shorty.sendMouseClick( x, y ) - send a left mouse button click at the coordinate x, y to the scene.

Example

The example directory contains two simple examples. main.qml demonstrates how to grab screenshots. FilmStrip.qml is used to create filmstrips of sequences of screenshots (and happens to fit the shorty.shoot() output format quite well.