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Re: Obtaining image of screen [message #31854 is a reply to message #31776]

Wed, 21 August 2002 07:35

mchinand
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In article <571b0146.0208210503.1f9a0401@posting.google.com>,
Alan Ling <Alan.Ling@hanscom.af.mil> wrote:
> "Liam E. Gumley" <Liam.Gumley@ssec.wisc.edu> wrote in message
> I am using Irix 6.5 on a SGI O2. I was looking for a way to do it in
> IDL. I looked into spawning snapshot in my code, but snapshot doesn't
> accept any useful arguments such as the window position and size, thus
> making it clumsy to use for this purpose.

You can use xwd. You can specify either the resource ID or
WM_NAME of the window you want to capture. If you set the title of the
base widget you can use:

xwd -name 'title_of_your_base_widget' > widgetcapture.xwd

IDL can read the X Windows dump format file with READ_XWD.

Hope that helps,

--Mike

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Michael Chinander
m-chinander@uchicago.edu
Department of Radiology
University of Chicago

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