Hi, MWSnap is an excellent screenshot capture program for the Windows platform. It includes a few other nice features as well. One of them is a "Window Information" feature. Awesome feature to spy on other software to get an idea how how the created the GUI layout. :-) I would like to try and write a utility for X11 platform to do the same. Anybody got any ideas how to do it?
* In MWSnap when you select "Window Information" feature, it seems to take a snapshot of the desktop. I tested this by enabling the seconds in the date/time display. The seconds stop ticking as soon as I select "Window Information" feature. * As you move the mouse over the screen, it displays information about that window (handle, class, co-ordinates, dimensions etc). * *This* is the real feature I'm trying to duplicate. As you move the mouse, it draws a rectangle around the window area it's giving information about. eg: The button in a ComboBox or a Button or Edit on a Form etc.. The following link shows what I'm trying to accomplish. http://opensoft.homeip.net/~graemeg/mwsnap_screenshot.png Has anybody written such a tool, or know of an existing tool that does this? Anybody know how MWSnap manages to do the above and how I could do the same for X11? I would guess Felipe's Magnifier application will give some hints on capturing the screen, but what about the other parts? Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
