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Saturday, July 4, 2009 Blog Archive

Qt-Embedded: Capturing screen with QPixmap ► 2013 (3)

► 2012 (3)
I've been working on a product manual lately. I needed to include several LCD screenshots into it so I tried to come up with
an easy way to capture snapshots from our Qt/Embedded app. ► 2011 (4)
Qt/Embedded provides a nice method to save window/framebuffer contents directly to an image file. However, I wanted ► 2010 (3)
to send the 'take-snapshot' command from a tty console (telnet/serial/etc) since there weren't any other buttons on the
system to trigger that. ▼ 2009 (14)
A QTimer is set up. Periodically it checks the file /tmp/doCapture. If it exists a snapshot is taken and an image file is ► December (1)
saved. Its filename is taken from the contents of /tmp/doCapture. After saving the image /tmp/doCapture is deleted.
► August (1)
Here is the code, which should be placed in the main window, whose width and height cover the whole screen:
▼ July (1)
Qt-Embedded:
Capturing
mainWindow::mainWindow() screen with
{ QPixmap
// captureTimer should be declared in mainWindow's class definition
captureTimer = new QTimer(this); ► May (1)
connect( captureTimer, SIGNAL(timeout()), this, SLOT(captureTimerEvent()) );
► April (2)

captureTimer->start(1000); //check interval ► March (3)

} ► February (2)

void mainWindow::captureTimerEvent() ► January (3)

{
QString tmpFile = QString("/tmp/doCapture"); ► 2008 (11)

if ( !QFile::exists(tmpFile) )
return;
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//capture 5 weeks ago
QPixmap p = QPixmap::grabWindow( this->winId() );
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5 years ago
This way, all I have to do to take a snapshot is to write:

echo pngfilename > /tmp/doCapture Stats

Posted by CjB at 1:20 AM

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1 comment:

Héctor Rompato January 6, 2012 at 4:19 PM

Thanks, your solution (QPixmap p = QPixmap::grabWindow( this->winId() );) was helpfull to me.

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