Re: programmatic screenshots?

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

hi,

Andrew Cowie schrieb:
> On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 08:51 -0800, Garth's KidStuff wrote:
>   
>> I'm runnign a Gtk++ app under ubuntu 8.04 and I'd liek to take a screenshot
>> from inside the app.  Any hints?
>>     
>
> We used an adaptation of the gnome-screenshot code in gnome-utils's
> gnome-screenshot/gnome-screenshot.c
>
> It is *very * voodoo (in the sense that it makes all kinds of low level
> X calls which aren't the sort of thing that us mere mortal application
> developers using GTK have to know about, usually) but works quite
> nicely, especially the fact that it captures window decorations and adds
> a nice drop shadow. Pity it isn't out there in library form, but c'est
> la vie.
>   
do you have it in a form, where you have one *.c and one *.h file with
lots of static functions and one public function in the kind of:
take_screen_shot(GtkWindow *window,gchar *filename);
If so, could you share that code?

Stefan

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