Pyqt take screenshot of certain screen area

Question

I have this app written in pyqt. You can view the source at http://www.pasteall.org/62739/python It takes screen shots of the desktop. what I want to know is how to make it also take a screen shot of a certain area on the screen like window's snipping tool can do (http://sjcblogs.sanjac.edu/its/files/2011/09/Snipping-Tool-selection-types1.jpg and gilsmethod.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/images/snipping-tool-windows-73.png). How do I write this?

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

You should use

img = QPixmap.grabWindow(QApplication.desktop().winId(), x, y, width, height)

The pyqt distro has a very good python example of screeshoting with pyqt. The C++ code of the example, easily converted to Python, is at http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qt-desktop-screenshot-example.html