SFML 1.6 Screen Capture takes a while

[tntexplosivesltd]

Hi
Is there a way to speed up a screen capture in SFML 1.6? At the moment, there is a reasonably long pause (~1-2 seconds) when you tell it to do a screenshot.
Thanks!

[Laurent]

Is it the capture function that takes so much time, or saving the image to a file?

Can you show the relevant code?

[tntexplosivesltd]

Sorry, it's the saving to file.

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char time_and_date[32];
time_t time_ref = time(0);
tm * screenshot_time;

screenshot_time = localtime(&time_ref);
strftime(time_and_date, 32, "%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S.jpg", screenshot_time);
std::cout << time_and_date << std::endl;
sf::Image Screen = App.Capture();
Screen.SaveToFile(time_and_date);


[Laurent]

Are you running in debug or release mode? Have you tried other file formats?

[tntexplosivesltd]

Not sure how to save as different formats (changing the extension? Does this change the internal format?), and I'm using the debug mode (I think) in Code::Blocks.

[Laurent]

Not sure how to save as different formats (changing the extension? Does this change the internal format?)

Yes, format is based on extension (would be insane to get a JPEG image inside "toto.png" ).

and I'm using the debug mode

Ok, so performances don't mean anything (debug mode is for debugging, nothing else). Switch to release when you want to benchmark things.