Re: Making Movies: problems

[Marcus G. Daniels]

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

ST> But your code necessarily goes out to X to obtain the bitmap, no?

Of course it would be possible to converse with the window manager
to cut the appropriate piece out of the screen. 

ST> In which case, if I remember the ol' tcl/tk code, you can specify
ST> whether you want the 'decorations' or not.

Ok, please show me that code.

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

Well, you can overlap the frames.  Swarm 1.3.1 will raise each frame before
taking a snapshot. 

Otherwise, write some window manager scripts.  You can use the window
class (prefixed with "Swarm") to identify which windows are from
Swarm.

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