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Description of MUSHclient world function: world.WindowWrite

Name WindowWrite
Type Method
Summary Writes the contents of a miniwindow to disk as a graphics file
Prototype long WindowWrite(BSTR WindowName, BSTR FileName);

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Description

The entire contents of the named miniwindow are written to disk as file name FileName. The file name must end in .PNG or .BMP. Based on the file name, either a BMP or PNG file is written.

The file name is not case-sensitive.

Note: Available in version 4.36 onwards.
Lua example 
WindowWrite (win, "window_saved.png");
Returns eNoSuchWindow - no such miniwindow

eNoNameSpecified - no file name specified

eBadParameter - file name too short or does not end in .BMP or .PNG

eCouldNotOpenFile - cannot open file (eg. pathname does not exist, no write permissions)

eLogFileBadWrite - problem writing (eg. disk full)

eOK - success

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Introduced in version 4.36

See also ...

Function Description
WindowLoadImage Loads an image into a miniwindow from a disk file

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