Getting getViewportDib() to a file ?

Thanks, those methods worked like a charm. A little off topic but why the fudge can't programming languages like maxscript, auto and visual lisp, corelscript and probably many others simply cannot read a text file, skip down to a line, then replace that line with new content and be on your way. Its absurd how you have to read a line, then write it to a separate open file over and over just to change one line, makes no sense to me all. You can open a file and append to the end of it ?? Is there technical reason that makes this seem impossible to do ?

Thanks for the saving viewport to a file info.

appending is easy. check mxs reference on reading/writing to filestream.

(
	f = createfile @"C:/test.tmp"
	for i=1 to 10 do format "line #%\n" i to:f
	close f

	f = openfile @"C:/test.tmp" mode:"a+"
	for w in #( "I", "like","to","append!" ) do format "%\n" w to:f
	close f


	format "%\n" ((dotNetClass "system.io.file").readalltext @"C:/test.tmp")
)

.

(
	saveToPath = @"D:\\"
	
	grab_viewpBMP = gw.getViewportDib()
	
	tempBMP = bitmap grab_viewpBMP.width grab_viewpBMP.height
	
	pasteBitmap grab_viewpBMP tempBMP (box2 0 0 grab_viewpBMP.width grab_viewpBMP.height) [0,0] 
	
	
	
	tempBMP.filename = (saveToPath + "MyViewportSnapshot.jpg")
	
	save tempBMP
	close tempBMP
	close grab_viewpBMP
	tempBMP = undefined
	grab_viewpBMP = undefined
	freeSceneBitmaps()
)

:)

(
	
	bm = gw.getViewportDib()
	bm.filename = @"C:/tmp_bitmap.png"
	save bm
	
)

Yep, shorter. :)
When the snapshot must be bigger than the actual viewport the pasteBitmap can't be avoided. :)