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GC.copyArea offscreen widgets [message #547383]

Fri, 16 July 2010 10:25

Stuart Caunt
Messages: 3
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi,

Is it possible to generate an image from a canvas that is not visible (either outside the window bounds or covered by another window) ?

I've tried with the GC.copyArea but this copies the screen pixels or remains blank if the chosen area is outside the display.

Many thanks !
Stuart

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Re: GC.copyArea offscreen widgets [message #547431 is a reply to message #547383]

Fri, 16 July 2010 14:12

stuart pond
Messages: 11
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

I have played around with this and the answer appears to be platform
specific. I have gotten it to work (not reliably) for Windows 7 64 bit ,
but does not work on Windows XP.

So the short answer is I do not believe SWT supports a platform independent
way of doing this that is reliable in all situations.

-Stu Pond

"Stuart Caunt" <caunt@ill.fr> wrote in message
news:i1pq3t$b99$1@build.eclipse.org...
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to generate an image from a canvas that is not visible
> (either outside the window bounds or covered by another window) ?
>
> I've tried with the GC.copyArea but this copies the screen pixels or
> remains blank if the chosen area is outside the display.
>
> Many thanks !
> Stuart
>
>
>

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Re: GC.copyArea offscreen widgets [message #547482 is a reply to message #547383]

Sat, 17 July 2010 10:20

Alex Ignácio da Silva is currently offline

Alex Ignácio da Silva
Messages: 23
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi Stuart,

Do you have control over the Canvas' code? If so a possible workaround
would be to refactor its painting method to accept a GC argument, and
then handle it a GC instantiated from an Image.

Regards,

Alex

On 07/16/2010 11:25 AM, Stuart Caunt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to generate an image from a canvas that is not visible
> (either outside the window bounds or covered by another window) ?
>
> I've tried with the GC.copyArea but this copies the screen pixels or
> remains blank if the chosen area is outside the display.
>
> Many thanks !
> Stuart
>
>
>

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Re: GC.copyArea offscreen widgets [message #547551 is a reply to message #547383]

Sun, 18 July 2010 14:30

Lakshmi Shanmugam
Messages: 271
Registered: July 2009
Location: India

Senior Member

Hi Stuart,

You can use Control.print(GC) to get a snapshot of the control.
Please see the snippet here for an example:
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.sni ppets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet292.java?view=co

HTH,

Lakshmi P Shanmugam

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Re: GC.copyArea offscreen widgets [message #547574 is a reply to message #547551]

Sun, 18 July 2010 18:43

Alex Ignácio da Silva
Messages: 23
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi Lakshmi,

This method returns a boolean indicating if the operation was
successful. Under what circumstances could it fail? Will it always work
for a Canvas?

Thanks,

Alex

On 07/18/2010 03:30 PM, Lakshmi Shanmugam wrote:
> Hi Stuart,
>
> You can use Control.print(GC) to get a snapshot of the control.
> Please see the snippet here for an example:
> http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.sni ppets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet292.java?view=co
>
>
> HTH,

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Re: GC.copyArea offscreen widgets [message #547685 is a reply to message #547551]

Mon, 19 July 2010 07:10

Stuart Caunt
Messages: 3
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi Lakshmi,

Thanks for your reply! The Control.print(GC) method works perfectly! This really helps us a lot!

Thanks again and best regards,
Stuart

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Re: GC.copyArea offscreen widgets [message #547714 is a reply to message #547574]

Mon, 19 July 2010 08:59

Lakshmi Shanmugam
Messages: 271
Registered: July 2009
Location: India

Senior Member

Hi Alex,

Only when Control.print() is not supported on the platform, it'll return false. It is supported on windows XP and later versions of windows, GTK, carbon and cocoa. On the other platforms it'll return false.

HTH,

Lakshmi P Shanmugam

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