capture image automatically in a specific location

anyone?

please help

- use latest version 1.1.1 (http://sikulix.com)
- read the docs

at 1: see low-level mouse and keyboard actions (down-wait-up)

at 2: the OCR feature has many problems, so first try, wether it works with your images (faq 2436)

If the built-in OCR is not sufficient, you might try to save the capture as image file and use the Tesseract package standalone.

There are many methods to exactly define a Region on the screen, that should be used to "be converted to text"

keyDown(Key.SHIFT) does not seem to work for me at all... and even if it did I still don't understand how to limit it to 1 min
can you post an example of a code that holds a key for a minute?

can you post an example of a code that captures an image in a specific place automatically?

Thank you very much for helping me @RaiMan

edit: Understood how to capture image in a specific location now I only need to know how to hold a key for a minute (or old a key at all because keyDown doesnt work for me)

This is one way to act something after certain duration.
In this case, action is keyUp().

import thread
import datetime

def actsomething(name,*arg):
    print datetime.datetime.now()
    cnt = arg[0]
    while cnt > 0:
        cnt = cnt -1
        sleep(1)
    keyUp(Key.SHIFT)
    print datetime.datetime.now()

duration = 5 # 5sec
thread.start_new_thread(actsomething,("funcname",duration))
keyDown(Key.SHIFT)

for i in range(10):
    type("a")
    sleep(1)

@masuo: he did not say, that he wants to do something else in parallel, while he holds shift down.

So the answer to his question would be:
keyDown(Key.SHIFT)
wait(60)
KeyUp()

... and even if he wants to do something else after keyDown():
(module time is already imported in SikuliX)

end = time.time() + 60
keyDown(Key.SHIFT)

# do something else

while time.time() < end: wait(1)
keyUp()

@rekem
How do you know, that keyDown(Key.SHIFT) does not work?

a simple test:
take care, that some editor window is the frontmost application or something else, that accepts input.

keyDown(Key.SHIFT)
type("a")
KeyUp()

should enter an uppercase A

If this works, then the most probable cause for a not-working keyDown() is that the game blocks non-human keyboard actions.
Try to run the IDE or the script as admin.

Tried it all. it still does not seem to hold the key only to press it every 1 second

what about the test suggestion in comment #8?

BTW: what system?

Just saw the question and can confirm that this code:

print "You have 3 seconds to focus notepad"
sleep(3)
keyDown(Key.SHIFT)
type("a")
keyUp()

works fine on Windows 10, Mac Os ElCapitan and Lubuntu 16.04

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