Re: How to get image of offscreen widget or window ?



No, it only exists during expose events, there is no double buffer at
any other time.

You should be able to grab pixmaps of obscured windows though: I
thought this is what GraphicsExpose events were for? Not sure about
partially offscreen windows.

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:38:07 +0100, Mike Hearn <mike navi cx> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:49:14 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
> > In X11, windows (unlike pixmaps) have no backing store.  If they aren't
> > on screen, or are obscured, then there is no contents to grab.
> 
> Is there really no way to access the GTK double buffer?



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