From: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: x-export-frames for non-Cairo builds
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 18:25:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d383aa65-2845-d6d4-e4dc-8efa3cb6da88@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi emacs-devel,
I'd like to capture screenshots of Emacs frames from inside Emacs (currently I use `import' or `xwd', but they don't always work well).
On Cairo there's x-export-frame, but I don't think there's an equivalent function for other builds.
The following draft seems to work nicely for me (on GTK3)
DEFUN ("x-export-png", Fx_export_png, Sx_export_png, 0, 1, 0,
doc: /* Save FRAME as 'screenshot.png'. */)
(Lisp_Object frame)
{
struct frame *f = decode_window_system_frame(frame);
int width = FRAME_PIXEL_WIDTH (f);
int height = FRAME_PIXEL_HEIGHT (f);
printf("W, H: %d, %d\n", width, height);
GdkWindow *w = gtk_widget_get_window (FRAME_GTK_WIDGET (f));
GdkPixbuf *pb = gdk_pixbuf_get_from_window(w, 0, 0, width, height);
gdk_pixbuf_save (pb, "/tmp/screenshot.png", "png", NULL, NULL);
return Qnil;
}
However, I have multiple questions:
* Assuming proper error checking, documentation, and adjustments, would there be interest in merging this?
* IIUC, this code is GTK3-only. On GTK2, it should be possible to use gdk_pixbuf_get_from_drawable, right? (or is it gdk_pixbuf_xlib_get_from_drawable?). Both of these gave me linker errors, however.
* Where should this code go? Should it be merged into x-export-frames?
* Is this the right way to capture a screenshot of an Emacs frame in GTK? Or is there a faster way? (for example, can I defer part of the work of creating the pixbuf, maybe by getting a GdkImage first, and converting later? I'm hoping to reduce the latency of the screenshot-taking process, even if it requires some post-processing)
Thanks!
Clément.
next reply other threads:[~2018-01-25 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-25 23:25 Clément Pit-Claudel [this message]
2018-01-26 8:08 ` x-export-frames for non-Cairo builds Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-26 14:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-01-26 16:08 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-01-26 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-26 23:13 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-02-02 10:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
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