Re: x-export-frames for non-Cairo builds

["Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>]

On 2018-01-26 03:08, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 18:25:55 -0500
>>
>> 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)
>>     {
> 
> Please, not another x-FOO function that is very likely to have 4
> different implementations.  Instead, please define a single function
> whose name does NOT start with "x-", and make it have a GTK-specific
> and a Cairo-specific implementation, which (the implementations)
> ideally should not be exported to Lisp.

Thanks; understood. I will prepare a patch.

>>       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);
> 
> That hard-coded file name is a no-no. 

Yes, of course.  Sorry if it was unclear that I didn't intend to propose to merge this code as-is ^^

> The function should probably
> accept an optional file name, and by default use some defcustom, which
> I think should be a relative file name, i.e. created in the current
> directory.  AFAIU, the image format should also be an optional
> argument (even though not all GUI frames will support that).

OK, these are great ideas.  But do you think it's better to save the image, rather than what x-export-frame currently does?

>> * Assuming proper error checking, documentation, and adjustments, would there be interest in merging this?
> 
> Yes.  Implementations for other window-systems are welcome.

Super.

>> * Where should this code go? Should it be merged into x-export-frames?
> 
> frame.c looks like the best place to me.

Great.

I hope someone can comment on gdk_pixbuf_get_from_drawable/gdk_pixbuf_xlib_get_from_drawable :)

Thanks again,
Clément.