Re: Making Movies: problems

[Sven N. Thommesen]

At 05:51 PM 9/10/1998 -0700, Marcus wrote:
>>>>>> "ST" == Sven N Thommesen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>ST> Could we possibly have a settable parameter for this?
>
>Swarm does not to create the surrounding border decorations, that's
>the work of the window manager.  Try running `xterm' instead of your
>window manager in your X startup script to see what Swarm is putting 
>on the screen.

But your code necessarily goes out to X to obtain the bitmap, no? In which
case, if I remember the ol' tcl/tk code, you can specify whether you want
the 'decorations' or not. 

>
>I've added code to Swarm to cope with windows that are partially off-screen
>or obscured by other windows.  But the virtual terminal stuff is
>not the domain of Swarm, it's the domain of the window manager.
>
>Look at:
>
> http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/archive/list-archive.9807/0041.html
>
>to get a feel for how you might use a programmable window manager to do this.
>Scwm could definitely do the job.

I appreciate the reference. Let me ask the list this: assuming your app
needs to display more widgets than will fit within a reasonable screen
resolution (say, max 1600x1200), is there a solution available under which
you (a) get to see all widgets on the screen somehow, and (b) get to
snapshot any widget to a .png file ?

--Sven


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