thanks for the info; sounds perfect. I had searched bugzilla before, but
had never though tof the problem in terms of "zooming" so of course
didn't find it.
christian.
Claude Gohier wrote:
> You might be interested in bug 32646
>
>
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32646
>
> christian wrote:
>
>> Hi All.
>> I've been trying to figure out a good way to get a thumbnail of a
>> page, more generally, for any URL. Essentially i want to be able to
>> create an icon (64x64 or less) of that URL to use in a GUI History
>> project i'm working on.
>> What options do i have?
>>
>> Looking through the source (i'm still learning the details), i thought
>> i could grab the pixels from an nsDrawingSurface/nsRenderingContext
>> but haven't tried it yet. I thought i might also just create a new
>> implementation of this interface, something like nsDrawingSurfacePNG
>> which would pretend that PNG was another surface along with Windows
>> and GTK. It seems to me that this latter solution would cause a page
>> to get rendered twice, and might be too much for a simple thumbnail?
>>
>> Any ideas or direction to a suitable implementation would be very
>> appreciated.
>>
>> thanks,
>> christian.
>>
>>
