Re: Making Movies: problems

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "ST" == Sven N Thommesen <address@hidden> writes:

ST> 1. EZBin needs a method -getHisto for access to the underlying
ST> histogram widget, to parallel EZGraph's -getGraph.

Ok.

ST> 2. The resulting bit maps show only the 'contents' of the windows,
ST> without the surrounding border decorations, and without the window
ST> title.

Yes, that was intentional.

ST> 3. If the window is overlapped by something else on the screen,
ST> the saved bitmap shows the window with whatever was on top of it,
ST> rather than the unencumbered window.

Ok.

ST> 4. If you use fvwm's window manager's 'virtual desktop' feature,
ST> Pixmap is not able to snapshot widgets that are not on the current
ST> pane of the current desktop.

I think you'll need to use scripting in your window manager to do that.
There's no clean, portable way to have Swarm navigating these 
private window manager data structures.  

ST> 5. For curiosity only: if I try to snapshot [widget getParent]
ST> instead of the widget itself, I get the whole window for probe
ST> widgets, but not for raster widgets ... ? 

As one would expect...

ST> And for widgets off the
ST> current window, I still get a snapshot of the root window, not the
ST> window the widget is actually on ... ?

Please clarify what you mean by "window".  Are you saying that the virtual
screens aren't swapped to do snapshots of off-screen widgets? 

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