
To nudge the Capture Area one pixel at a time, press the arrow keys.When you have the Capture Area in roughly the size and position you need, you can use the arrow keys to fine tune it: As long as the inside of the image does not match anything else on the screen, the edges are not important. This image might look less like a folder icon to you, but shape isn’t especially important to Eggplant Functional. If you capture the icon without the desktop in the background, you can cover both states with one image: Of course, you could always capture an image of the folder with the selected background as well, but since the icon itself does not change, this is an unnecessary complication. Selected folder with dark blue area in the background Even if you can always count on the desktop being the same color, in this example, it is shaded when the folder icon is selected: If you capture some of the desktop in your image, you always have to rely on the desktop color to be the same for a match. For example, here is an image of a folder on a desktop:


Identifying Good ImagesĪn easy way to keep Eggplant Functional scripts as robust as possible is to capture images with just enough content to uniquely identify an interface element. Add the Shift key to move the hot spot in 10-pixel increments. To move the image hot spot, Ctrl+click (Cmd+click on Mac) the desired location, drag the hot spot, or press the arrow keys. Note: The initial view of the captured image is shown at a 1:1 scale.
