Re: Grab a pixmap / screenshot thing

[Daniel Kasak <dkasak nusconsulting com au>]

Torsten Schoenfeld 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.
>   

Excellent. Now things are looking fancy :) It seems to work perfectly on 
Windows too.
Thanks Torsten. And sorry about the delayed reply ... it's very busy at 
the moment.

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