tony@tui.marcam.dsir.govt.nz (Tony Cooper) (04/04/91)
xwd, xsnap, xgrabsc all dump windows to a file but they all suffer from the problem that they only dump the part of a window that is visible on the screen. I have also tried these programs under the two virtual window managers tvtwm and vtwm and even then all that gets dumped is the part of the window that is visible on the screen. I would like to dump a window that is larger than my screen and I want all the window, not just the part that is visible on the screen. Any ideas? Thanks, Tony Cooper sramtrc@albert.dsir.govt.nz
klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) (04/04/91)
In article <1991Apr4.012212.7135@am.dsir.govt.nz>, tony@tui.marcam.dsir.govt.nz (Tony Cooper) writes: |> xwd, xsnap, xgrabsc all dump windows to a file but they all suffer from |> the problem that they only dump the part of a window that is visible on |> the screen. Unless you have backing store on, the contents of the not visible parts of a window are undefined. -- Ken Lee DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif. Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee
garyo@think.com (Gary Oberbrunner) (04/04/91)
In article <1991Apr3.175607@wsl.dec.com> klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) writes: In article <1991Apr4.012212.7135@am.dsir.govt.nz>, tony@tui.marcam.dsir.govt.nz (Tony Cooper) writes: |> xwd, xsnap, xgrabsc all dump windows to a file but they all suffer from |> the problem that they only dump the part of a window that is visible on |> the screen. Unless you have backing store on, the contents of the not visible parts of a window are undefined. -- Ken Lee DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif. Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee You could, of course, write a window dump program that put the target window on top, snarfed as much as was visible, then moved the target window around (and allowed it to do whatever expose processing it was going to do) taking snapshots and compositing them together to form an image of what the whole window would look like if it were all visible. True, it wouldn't work in all cases (especially if the display is dynamic in any way), but it would work for most sensible cases. - Gary Oberbrunner Thinking Machines Corporation 245 First St Cambridge, MA 02142 garyo@think.com
steven@pacific.csl.uiuc.edu (Steven Parkes) (04/05/91)
|> You could, of course, write a window dump program that put the target |> window on top, snarfed as much as was visible, then moved the target window |> around (and allowed it to do whatever expose processing it was going to do) |> taking snapshots and compositing them together to form an image of what the |> whole window would look like if it were all visible. Shades of how Daisy printed schematics
mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse) (04/07/91)
>>> xwd, xsnap, xgrabsc all dump windows to a file but they all suffer >>> from the problem that they only dump the part of a window that is >>> visible on the screen. >> Unless you have backing store on, the contents of the not visible >> parts of a window are undefined. > You could, of course, write a window dump program that put the target > window on top, snarfed as much as was visible, then moved the target > window around (and allowed it to do whatever expose processing it was > going to do) Except that there's no way for the snapshot program to tell when the client program is finished doing expose processing. (Aside from all the other objections - for example, the window manager may not let you raise the window all the way to the top; at least some versions tvtwm won't let you raise it above sticky windows, for example.) der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu