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Re: possible to write screen capture of widget program to tiff? [message #65657 is a reply to message #65577] Fri, 13 March 2009 07:55 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Kenneth P. Bowman is currently offline  Kenneth P. Bowman
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<b9d61dc3-3644-4663-80ad-15d1ab0257f6@c11g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>,
Mark <astroboy2k@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all.
>
> My apologies if this is a dumb question.
>
> I've written a rather elaborate widget program, with a display and all
> the knobs and dials anyone could wish for. What I'd like to do is make
> an avi or mpeg where one could see the plots in the display change as
> the sliders etc. move. Going from a tiff or jpeg to a movie is not the
> problem. Its not clear to me how to write the whole widget image, (if
> that's the word) to a tiff or jpeg continuously as the sliders etc.
> are moved...
>
> If anyone has any advice I'd appreciate it greatly. I'm really under
> the gun on this one.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark

The simplest approach is probably to use an external program designed
to record the user's desktop.

We made this movie last year

http://start.tamu.edu/section_plotter.html

on a Mac using Snapz Pro.

The application was used to help us design flight plans for a research
aircraft.

It's worth spending the money to get software designed for this
purpose.

Ken Bowman
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