Re: automated screenshots

[karderio <karderio gmail com>]

Hi :o)

On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 16:49 -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 22:35 +0200, karderio wrote:
> > Hi :o)
> > 
> > I have hacked up a little script to automate taking screenshots with
> > DogTail : http://live.gnome.org/autoshot .
> 
> Nice!
> 
> > 
> > It's just a proof of concept for the moment, but it is very simple and
> > seems to work, despite some wired instabilities, which perhaps come from
> > DogTails immaturity...
> >From what I can see in the screencast, it looks like you might be
> running into this bug:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321273 

That seems very possible, thanks for the info.

> BTW, dogtail has its own screenshot method; you may want to use that
> (caveat: I haven't used it much myself though)

>From what I understood from the documentation, DogTail only let's you
take shots of the whole screen and not an individual window.

> Dogtail has some automatic i18n facilities; if you write a script in the
> C locale you may well be able to have it run in other locales by
> leveraging the software's own translations. See dogtail.i18n and the
> loadTranslationsFromPackageMoFiles function.

I tried this function, while it seemed that it may work for gedit, it
halted the script when I tried to use it with gataxx saying
"dogtail.distro.PackageNotFoundError: gataxx". I don't know if this is a
bug, or simply a figment of my lack of understanding of dogtail.

Thanks for the feedback !

Love, Karderio