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Re: Obtaining image of screen [message #31858 is a reply to message #31772]

Wed, 21 August 2002 06:03

Alan.Ling
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Registered: August 2002

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"Liam E. Gumley" <Liam.Gumley@ssec.wisc.edu> wrote in message news:<3D62959E.3E369C6F@ssec.wisc.edu>...
> Alan Ling wrote:
>> I have an IDL program which creates a window containing various
>> widgets, including a drawing area made with WIDGET_DRAW. I can draw
>> something in the drawing area and save the image of what is drawn to
>> an array using TVRD(). What I want to do is to save the entire
>> window into an array as an image, not just the graphics portion of the
>> window, but everything in the window including all the widgets. Does
>> anyone know how to do this?
>
> I don't know of any way to do this in IDL.
>
> However there are a number of non-IDL ways to do it, depending on your
> host platform. What platform are you using?
>
> Cheers,
> Liam.
> Practical IDL Programming
> http://www.gumley.com/

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.

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