Re: Grab a pixmap / screenshot thing

[zentara <zentara1 sbcglobal net>]

On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:00:03 +0100
Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de> wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 10:08 +1100, Daniel Kasak wrote:
> > Is it possible to create a pixmap of the current desktop ... or part of 
> > it ... using gtk2-perl?
>
> Get the Gtk2::Gdk::Window for the root window.  Create a pixbuf from it.
> Save the pixbuf to disk.
>
>  use Gtk2 -init;
>  my $s = Gtk2::Gdk::Screen->get_default;
>  my $w = $s->get_root_window;
>  my $p = Gtk2::Gdk::Pixbuf->get_from_drawable (
>            $w, undef, 0, 0, 0, 0, $s->get_width, $s->get_height);
>  $p->save ("screenshot.png", "png");'
>
> I don't know if that works on anything but X11, though.
>
> -- 
> Bye,
> -Torsten

Thats cool.  Lightbulb goes on!!!  
I wonder if it can be used in a thread, to take a series of screenshots thru a timer,
which can then be assembled into an mpg movie of the screen action. ?

zentara



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