🔒 Screen recording app problem | Python | Page 1

foggy temple Apr 25, 2025, 1:17 PM

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Hello everyone, I’m building a Python screen recorder that only records when assigned software is open.
If the app is minimized, recording should pause. When multiple apps are assigned, it should automatically pause and resume as the user switches between them.

I’m having trouble figuring out the best way to approach these features. Has anyone built something similar or have a solution on how to go about this ?

spice bridgeBOT Apr 25, 2025, 1:17 PM

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burnt ivy Apr 25, 2025, 1:24 PM

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https://pyautogui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ will probably be your friend here :)
Internally, I believe it uses https://pypi.org/project/PyGetWindow/ for window information

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Alternatively, you can use win32gui on Windows.
This demos both: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/608809/getting-the-name-of-the-active-window

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Getting the name of the active window

I want to write a python script on Windows that saves the title of the program that the user uses at a given time like the http://www.rescuetime.com .
I don't want to use rescuetime because of priv...

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