Can a utility be made to automate this?

[sjshaw]

I took a screen shot of each player on my team, cropped it, and pasted it into a Word doc. The result is:

www.stephenjshaw.com/roster.doc (http://www.stephenjshaw.com/roster.doc) (2.8 mb)

I wish I had reduced the color depth to reduce the file size, but I was lazy.

If there were some way to automate assembling this, then we could have the ability I wanted some time ago, which is to compare players' development over periods of time.

Also, I can print this out and refer to it as I set depth charts and gameplans. Saves a ton of clicking.

So, is it worth it, and if so, can it be done? Some kind of macro on steroids?

[FBPro]

Would be nice to be able to do something like this, even if it was just a bar graph w/ ratings.

[Ramzavail]

Nice Left Tackle.

[Karim]

I agree. I started on something similar but gave up on it because it was just too much work.

PureSim had a nice line graph that tracked development ratings.

[sabotai]

The biggest problem with trying to create a utility to do this would be that utility programmers work off of the raw data in the files while what you see (and take a screen shot of) is "filtered" through your scout. So unless the programmer can figure out how the game modifies the ratings through the scout, you'd be getting the absolute value of the player.

[sjshaw]

Yeah, that's why I'm thinking some kind of crazy macro to take the screen shots and paste them into a file.

[sabotai]

That would be one insane macro. :)

[sjshaw]

I figured out a much easier way to do this. Get a versatile screen-shot program that allows you to define the screen region to capture and will automatically save screen captures in a folder. Scroll through your team, taking screen captures of each player card and auto-saving them in a folder (most good screen capture programs will also let you define the color depth and file type). Then use WinXP's Picture and Fax Viewer (or another program) to print all the captures as a contact sheet. Takes 5 minutes.

Voila.

[Easy Mac]

For this I would recommend Analog-x's capture (http://www.analogx.com/files/capturei.exe)
Just download and install. Run the program and a little camera should appear at the taskbar. Right click and go to configure. Set the folder it should be saved in, and (where it says capture mode) instead of desktop choose active window.

Now just left-click on the camera at each player.

[Easy Mac]

dola, here is an idea of what sjshaw was saying

linky (http://fc.furman.edu/%7Echristopher.mason/cleveland.pdf)

5 mb file, so it may take a while to view because there are 56 pictures. To see it best, rotate counter clockwise and zoom to 150%.

[Taco]

I thought about writing something like this that automatically captures screen shots. I just haven't had the time to do it. Here is a free tool that makes it fairly easy to automate doing repetitive tasks like this:

http://www.hiddensoft.com/AutoIt/