Re: Colour Window Dump

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Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++multipass.asd.sgi.com)
Wed, 4 Jun 1997 11:09:45 -0700

There's also the easy to use pfuSaveImage function.

On Jun 4, 3:40pm, Inge Henriksen wrote:
> Subject: Re: Colour Window Dump
> Simon Dimaio wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Is there an easy way to dump a colour window to a file? I have used a
> > ..._TYPE_X window and have tried using "xwd" and "xv" to dump the window
> > containing my Performer simulation, but the colour map is not saved
> > correctly. (?)
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Regards
> > Simon Dimaio
> >
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> Hello Simon Dimaio
> ------------------
> I have earlier encountered the same problem with xwd, I have been told
> that the color-errors is because some X-windows are configured to 8-bit
> (bitplanes?), a more correct configuration would be a higher number of
> bit's. We also have our X-windows set to 8-bit on our V5.3 of Irix. The
> bit-number do not seem to have any effect on the actual number of viewed
> on-screen colors, but effects programs like xwd. This adds up to one way
> of solving your problem; to reconfigure the number of
> X-bitplanes(somehow). I did not do this, and rather used the
> "/usr/sbin/scrsave file x0 x1 y0 y1", where you can take a "snapshot" of
> the screen after your own specified coordinates. So a solution would be
> to figure out where your performer app. window is allocated on the
> screen, and then use "scrsave" to snapshot that portion of the screen.
> Use the "system(file)" command to execute a shell-command within your
> c-program.
>
> Greetings.
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