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Bug 164854 - Screen capture API needed for widgets
Screen capture API needed for widgets
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 318807
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: Other
2.6.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: Medium API
Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
: 164807 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-01-21 20:09 UTC by Srimanth Gunturi
Modified: 2007-02-28 17:25 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Srimanth Gunturi 2005-01-21 20:09:03 UTC 
It would be very useful for the widgets to provide some kind of screen capture
or screen scraping API. It is quinteseential that one be able to get the content
of the widgets directly - it would be helpful for a variety of applications like
printing, UI development etc.
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2005-01-21 21:54:40 UTC 
You can look at the hoops through which doc/tools/doc-shooter has to jump to do
this.
Comment 2 Billy Biggs 2005-01-21 22:05:00 UTC 
Note that doc-shooter only works if the windows are visible on the screen, if
they are obscured or hidden then gdk_pixbuf_get_from_drawable is not going to work.
Comment 3 Srimanth Gunturi 2005-01-21 22:20:43 UTC 
The defect/enhancement is for the toolkit to provide API to directly spit out 
a picture/pixbuf of the widgets. It should not depend on X or other capture 
mechanisms. It should work when widgets are offscreen, minimized etc.
Comment 4 Federico Mena Quintero 2005-02-02 02:39:23 UTC 
*** Bug 164807 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Xan Lopez 2007-02-28 17:25:40 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 318807 ***