Re: Saving a GdkWindow to a file

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Hi,

Leandro A. F. Pereira wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> In my application I have to save the contents of a widget to a PNG
> file. So far it works (using GDK Pixbuf and gdk_pixbuf_save), but
> garbage appears if the window is obscured by another window, or if
> some part of it is hidden.
>
> How can someone get a GtkWidget's GdkWindow in a way no garbage will
> show up if that window isn't completely visible? I know that GTK+ is
> double-buffered, so it must be some way.

as a naive idea, wouldn't it help to bring the window to front? One problem I
have with screenshooting windows is that the widnow decorations are missing.
Does somebody has a pointer to an example that includes the window decodation?

Stefan


> By the way, the code I am currently using is available at [1]. See
> tree_view_save_image().
>
> [1] http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/hardinfo/trunk/hardinfo2/util.c?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
>
> Thanks in advance,