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Re: Is pragmatically taking a screenshot possible?

 

Hmm, both of iOS and Android allow user to take screenshot with a
global hot key. This function be used very frequently to quick share
something to friend, at least to me.

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Marc Deslauriers
<marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 13-09-29 06:28 AM, James Mugford wrote:
>> Wow, as easy as that?
>>
>> Would there not be any security restrictions or hoops to jump through?
>>
>
> The application confinement won't allow applications to take screenshots of any
> window they don't own, so this won't be possible for security reasons.
>
> Marc.
>
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