Hi _why, Jordan et al,

Fantastic!!
I'm going to announce this great news in the forum of current Shoes course
today. :-D

Yay, can't wait!

Thanks,
ashbb

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:39 AM, _why <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 02:20:11AM +0900, Satoshi Asakawa wrote:
> > I got a cool idea from the Shoes programming course of RubyLearning.org.
> >
> > It's the screenshot feature like this:
> >
> > Shoes.app do
> >   ball = oval 0, 0, 10
> >   animate{|i| ball.move i, i}
> >   timer 3 do
> >     screenshot './pic_in_3_sec.png'
> >   end
> > end
> >
> > We can get the screenshot of Shoes canvas (meaning without window frame)
> > as the png format image data file named pic_in_3_sec.png on the current
> > directory! :-D
>
> Believe it or not, this already (partially) exists! It's called the
> `snapshot` method and was patched in many months ago, but appears to
> be broken now. (It also doesn't capture native controls or video.)
> Thus, it has gone undocumented.
>
> I've been meaning to fix and get it to give us perfect screenshots.
> So, yeah, I'm in favor of this feature.
>
> _why
>

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