Screenshot2PNG

A simple (silly) command-line tool to automatically convert Guild Wars 2 screenshots from Bitmaps (.bmp) to png in real-time. The most recent screenshot PNGs is can then also be made available in the clipboard.

How it works?

This program does not hook into the game in any way, instead it uses a FileSystemWatcher to listen for new screenshots. Whenever a new screenshot is detected, it is converted, and (optionally) copied to the clipboard.

Additionally, the screenshots are renamed to a saner naming scheme (yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss.fff.png instead of gw001.png).

The tool exits once it cannot detect any running GW2 process.

Why should I use this?

Honestly, I'm not quite sure yet if you should. I wrote this mostly to learn a bit more about C# and this program is not exactly sophisticated. However, it does what it's supposed to and it shouldn't break anything. :)

Usage

  -o, --output-dir      Specifies the directory in which the converted screenshots should be saved.

  --convert-existing    (Default: true) Enables or disables conversion of existing screenshots.

  --use-clipboard       (Default: true) Enables or disables clipboard integration.

  --help                Display this help screen.

  --version             Display version information.

  input-dir (pos. 0)    Required. Specifies the directory from which the screenshot bitmaps are read.

License

Copyright (c) 2020 Leon Linhart

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