Re: Re: Capturing windows in an NSImage

FROM : Eric Summers
DATE : Thu Jul 20 03:57:14 2006

It seems that screencapture is included in the darwin distribution.
Does anyone know where it is in the source tree?

On 7/19/06, Ryan Britton <<email_removed>> wrote:
> It does.  I've looked into trying to access window buffers before in
> order to do something along the lines of a screen grabber, but
> everything required to do that is private.
>
> On Jul 19, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Eric Summers wrote:
>
> > Thats a good idea.  It would be nice to have more control... but that
> > would probably involve undocumented internals...
> >
> > On 7/19/06, Ryan Britton <<email_removed>> wrote:
> >> Try this:
> >>
> >> man screencapture
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jul 19, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Eric Summers wrote:
> >>
> >> > I'm trying to figure out how programs like Apple's Grab screen
> >> capture
> >> > application get an image of other application windows.  I thought
> >> > of using
> >> > an AppleEvent to get the bounds of the windows then capturing the
> >> > data using
> >> > a big transparent window, but that wouldn't work if the window is
> >> > hidden.
> >> > Grab will get the image data even if the window is hidden.  Anyone
> >> > know how
> >> > the Grab application works?
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