I accidentally stumbled across the Turtle Graphics module (turtle.py) the other day and have been having some fun with it.
Now I'm wondering if there is a way to build into a script the saving of each window just before it is cleared. For example, here are a couple that I've saved by screen capture: <http://www.rcblue.com/Misc/RandomTriangles.jpg> <http://www.rcblue.com/Misc/RandomTriangles2.jpg> They were produced by this script: ========================================================= # randomTriangles.py import turtle as T from random import * def twoRndN(low=0, high=1): """ generate two random floats x, y in the range [low, high) such that x <= y """ x, y = uniform(low, high), uniform(low, high) if x <= y: return x, y else: return y, x T.setup(width=1000, height=700, startx=0, starty=0) T.title("Random Triangles with random R,G,B") colorRange = "all" if colorRange == "random": lowR, highR = twoRndN() lowG, highG = twoRndN() lowB, highB = twoRndN() count = 0 for n in range(300): wdth = randrange(0,7,3) T.width(wdth) T.speed("fastest") if colorRange == "dark": R = uniform(.1, .5) G = uniform(.1, .5) B = uniform(.1, .5) elif colorRange == "pastel": R = uniform(.5, .9) G = uniform(.5, .9) B = uniform(.5, .9) elif colorRange == "all": R = uniform(0, 1) G = uniform(0, 1) B = uniform(0, 1) # set RGB for one color of your choice elif colorRange == "manual": R = .45 G = .2 B = .2 elif colorRange == "random": R = uniform(lowR, highR) G = uniform(lowG, highG) B = uniform(lowB, highB) T.color(R,G,B) T.begin_fill() # 2 connected lines will fill as a triangle for x in range(2): coord = (randint(-500,500), randint(-350,350)) T.goto(coord) T.end_fill() count += 1 if count > 5: clr = randint(0,5) if clr == 0: T.clear() count = 0 T.done() ============================================== (The docs for Turtle graphics for Tk are at <http://www.python.org/doc/2.5/lib/module-turtle.html>) But how could I have saved them "automatically"? The script as shown will clear (T.clear() -- the 3rd line from the bottom) the window after producing 6 to maybe 15 superimposed triangles, so clearing will take place maybe 30 times. How can I save as images each of the 30 windows just before they are cleared? Thanks, Dick Moores -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list