On Tue Jun 21 10:40:56 BST 2011, Mads Ipsen wrote: > I have a GLWidget (OpenGL) based window which is used for displaying > chemical structures. I would like to use this window to generate > thumbnails used as icons for the files containing the chemical structures. > > I would like to hide this process of icon generation from the user, so > is there any way that you can > > * Show/display a GLWidget/QWidget in some sort of virtual frame > buffer, in such a way that is does NOT appear visual to the user. > * Dump the contents of the invisible window into a pixmap.
You probably want to look at the QGLPixelBuffer class and the associated example (which is only available in C++...) for inspiration: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/qglpixelbuffer.html David _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
