I am setting up a patch to save a jpg image on my desktop from the "jit.qt.grab" function . I am successfully set up a patch to save the image manually on the desktop. Now I like to set up a patch that automatically save the file without clicking any keyboard. However, when the action trigger the function called "write 30. jpeg normal" it will pop out a window to confirm the saving location. so, my question is that is there a way I can use a different function to skip this "manual" step? or there is a code?!

hi, experts 
I am setting up a patch to save a jpg image on my desktop from the "jit.qt.grab" function . I am successfully set up a patch to save the image manually on the desktop. Now I like to set up a patch that automatically save the file without clicking any keyboard. However, when the action trigger the function called "write 30. jpeg normal" it will pop out a window to confirm the saving location. so, my question is that is there a way I can use a different function to skip this "manual" step? or there is a code?!

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> I am setting up a patch to save a jpg image on my desktop from the "

> jit.qt.grab" function . I am successfully set up a patch to save the image

> manually on the desktop. Now I like to set up a patch that automatically

> save the file without clicking any keyboard. However, when the action

> trigger the function called "write 30. jpeg normal" it will pop out a window

> to confirm the saving location. so, my question is that is there a way I can

> use a different function to skip this "manual" step? or there is a code?!

On 9/16/07, aichen  wrote:
>
>
> hi, experts
> I am setting up a patch to save a jpg image on my desktop from the "
> jit.qt.grab" function . I am successfully set up a patch to save the image
> manually on the desktop. Now I like to set up a patch that automatically
> save the file without clicking any keyboard. However, when the action
> trigger the function called "write 30. jpeg normal" it will pop out a window
> to confirm the saving location. so, my question is that is there a way I can
> use a different function to skip this "manual" step? or there is a code?!
>
>
> thank you so much for your help!!!
>
> aichen
>
>
>
>

https://cycling74.com/twiki/bin/view/FAQs/BeginnersFAQ

but it wouldn't allow me to past, also I tried to put it on the Text Edit and save it with .pat file. it is not showing in the Max/MSP as well. am I doing anything wrong?!

thank you so much !!! I just update the latest version of Max/msp and it's working !!!!!!

hey, guys 
thank you so much !!! I just update the latest version of Max/msp and it's working !!!!!!

could you give me a guide that how do I use this patch?!

I couldn't understand most of the objects in this sub_patch.

is this the sub_patch for the write message? or it's substution for the entire set up that I had.

hi Derek 
could you give me a guide that how do I use this patch?!
I couldn't understand most of the objects in this sub_patch.
is this the sub_patch for the write message? or it's substution for the entire set up that I had. 

change "image_name" in the sprintf to whatever you want to call the captures.

try adding this to your patch.
change "image_name" in the sprintf to whatever you want to call the captures.

success !!!
thank you so much robtherich.
you save my life.

Is it possible to do this so it writes over the same file each time? I've tried but it doesn't do anything. Either that or get max to delete all files upon close?

Ah. No worries. jit.fprint does that nicely anyway.

Here's a patch that automatically saves a jpeg from a jit.matrix

            "box" :             {

                "maxclass" : "newobj",

                "text" : "del 100",

                "numinlets" : 2,

                "numoutlets" : 1,

                "id" : "obj-64",

                "patching_rect" : [ 133.0, 596.0, 50.0, 22.0 ],

                "style" : "",

                "outlettype" : [ "bang" ]

                "maxclass" : "comment",

                "text" : "100 ms delay",

                "numinlets" : 1,

                "numoutlets" : 0,

                "id" : "obj-62",

                "patching_rect" : [ 187.0, 517.0, 150.0, 20.0 ],

                "style" : ""

                "id" : "obj-58",

                "patching_rect" : [ 133.0, 516.0, 50.0, 22.0 ],

                "text" : "remove \"quotation marks\"",

                "id" : "obj-52",

                "patching_rect" : [ 291.0, 586.0, 150.0, 20.0 ],

                "maxclass" : "message",

                "text" : "exportimage C:/Users/YourName/Desktop/FileName_77.jpeg jpeg",

                "id" : "obj-47",

                "patching_rect" : [ 133.0, 624.0, 373.0, 22.0 ],

                "outlettype" : [ "" ]

                "text" : "sprintf %s",

                "fontsize" : 12.0,

                "fontname" : "Arial",

                "id" : "obj-44",

                "patching_rect" : [ 222.0, 584.0, 63.0, 22.0 ],

                "text" : "loadbang",

                "id" : "obj-13",

                "patching_rect" : [ 289.0, 188.0, 60.0, 22.0 ],

                "text" : "space",

                "id" : "obj-12",

                "patching_rect" : [ 499.0, 259.0, 150.0, 20.0 ],

                "text" : "\" \"",

                "id" : "obj-9",

                "patching_rect" : [ 466.0, 259.0, 29.5, 22.0 ],

                "text" : "C:/Users/YourName/Desktop/",

                "id" : "obj-7",

                "patching_rect" : [ 330.0, 286.0, 167.0, 22.0 ],

                "text" : "Click here to save, or bang from another object to autosave",

                "id" : "obj-76",

                "patching_rect" : [ 163.0, 66.0, 332.5, 20.0 ],

                "text" : "final file output. Connect outlet to a jit.matrix",

                "id" : "obj-74",

                "patching_rect" : [ 512.0, 625.0, 251.0, 20.0 ],

                "text" : "combine message pieces into one message",

                "id" : "obj-72",

                "patching_rect" : [ 275.0, 466.0, 284.0, 20.0 ],

                "text" : "FILE NUMBER. Note each time the patch is reopened, the number returns to 0",

                "id" : "obj-67",

                "patching_rect" : [ 523.5, 166.0, 435.0, 20.0 ],

                "text" : "file codec",

                "id" : "obj-65",

                "patching_rect" : [ 502.0, 396.0, 150.0, 20.0 ],

                "text" : "file format",

                "id" : "obj-63",

                "patching_rect" : [ 502.5, 341.0, 150.0, 20.0 ],

                "id" : "obj-61",

                "patching_rect" : [ 502.5, 369.0, 150.0, 20.0 ],

                "text" : "Saved file name",

                "id" : "obj-59",

                "patching_rect" : [ 502.0, 313.0, 150.0, 20.0 ],

                "id" : "obj-57",

                "patching_rect" : [ 466.0, 369.0, 29.5, 22.0 ],

                "text" : "FileName_",

                "id" : "obj-55",

                "patching_rect" : [ 426.0, 313.0, 69.0, 22.0 ],

                "text" : "FILE PATH. Change \"YourName\" to your User. Note the backslashes \\ are changed to forward slashes /",

                "linecount" : 2,

                "id" : "obj-51",

                "patching_rect" : [ 504.0, 286.0, 556.0, 34.0 ],

                "text" : "jpeg",

                "id" : "obj-40",

                "patching_rect" : [ 462.5, 396.0, 33.0, 22.0 ],

                "text" : ".jpeg",

                "id" : "obj-38",

                "patching_rect" : [ 458.5, 341.0, 37.0, 22.0 ],

                "text" : "\"exportimage C:/Users/YourName/Desktop/FileName_77.jpeg jpeg\"",

                "id" : "obj-33",

                "patching_rect" : [ 160.0, 549.0, 399.0, 22.0 ],

                "text" : "combine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8",

                "numinlets" : 8,

                "numoutlets" : 2,

                "id" : "obj-22",

                "patching_rect" : [ 133.0, 466.0, 136.0, 22.0 ],

                "outlettype" : [ "", "" ]

                "text" : "$1",

                "id" : "obj-21",

                "patching_rect" : [ 466.0, 228.0, 29.5, 22.0 ],

                "text" : "exportimage",

                "id" : "obj-50",

                "patching_rect" : [ 133.0, 188.0, 77.0, 22.0 ],

                "text" : "pak 0",

                "id" : "obj-48",

                "patching_rect" : [ 466.0, 194.666626, 40.0, 22.0 ],

                "maxclass" : "number",

                "id" : "obj-42",

                "patching_rect" : [ 466.0, 166.0, 50.0, 22.0 ],

                "outlettype" : [ "", "bang" ],

                "parameter_enable" : 0

                "text" : "counter",

                "numinlets" : 5,

                "numoutlets" : 4,

                "id" : "obj-37",

                "patching_rect" : [ 466.0, 135.0, 61.0, 22.0 ],

                "outlettype" : [ "int", "", "", "int" ]

                "maxclass" : "button",

                "id" : "obj-45",

                "patching_rect" : [ 133.0, 66.0, 24.0, 24.0 ],

            "patchline" :             {

                "source" : [ "obj-9", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-22", 1 ],

                "color" : [ 0.529412, 0.32549, 0.772549, 1.0 ],

                "midpoints" : [ 475.5, 280.5, 159.214286, 280.5 ]

                "source" : [ "obj-7", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-22", 2 ],

                "midpoints" : [ 339.5, 321.0, 175.928571, 321.0 ]

                "source" : [ "obj-64", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-47", 0 ]

                "source" : [ "obj-58", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-64", 0 ],

                "order" : 1

                "destination" : [ "obj-33", 0 ],

                "color" : [ 0.317647, 0.709804, 0.321569, 1.0 ],

                "midpoints" : [ 142.5, 543.0, 169.5, 543.0 ],

                "order" : 0

                "source" : [ "obj-57", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-22", 6 ],

                "midpoints" : [ 475.5, 388.5, 242.785714, 388.5 ]

                "source" : [ "obj-55", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-22", 3 ],

                "midpoints" : [ 435.5, 338.5, 192.642857, 338.5 ]

                "source" : [ "obj-50", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-22", 0 ],

                "color" : [ 0.529412, 0.32549, 0.772549, 1.0 ]

                "source" : [ "obj-48", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-21", 0 ]

                "source" : [ "obj-45", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-50", 0 ],

                "midpoints" : [ 142.5, 152.0, 142.5, 152.0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-37", 0 ],

                "midpoints" : [ 142.5, 114.0, 475.5, 114.0 ],

                "source" : [ "obj-44", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-47", 1 ],

                "midpoints" : [ 231.5, 614.5, 496.5, 614.5 ]

                "source" : [ "obj-42", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-48", 0 ]

                "source" : [ "obj-40", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-22", 7 ],

                "midpoints" : [ 472.0, 419.0, 259.5, 419.0 ]

                "source" : [ "obj-38", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-22", 5 ],

                "midpoints" : [ 468.0, 362.5, 226.071429, 362.5 ]

                "source" : [ "obj-37", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-42", 0 ]

                "source" : [ "obj-33", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-44", 0 ],

                "midpoints" : [ 169.5, 577.0, 231.5, 577.0 ]

                "source" : [ "obj-22", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-58", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-33", 1 ],

                "midpoints" : [ 142.5, 504.0, 549.5, 504.0 ],

                "source" : [ "obj-21", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-22", 4 ],

                "midpoints" : [ 475.5, 252.0, 209.357143, 252.0 ]

                "source" : [ "obj-13", 0 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-9", 0 ],

                "color" : [ 0.827451, 0.827451, 0.827451, 1.0 ],

                "midpoints" : [ 298.5, 260.333313, 475.5, 260.333313 ],

                "destination" : [ "obj-7", 0 ],

can I set up a patch that automatically save a jpg image?