Re: How to get a GtkWidget in to pixbuf

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 09:50 +0300, sampo nurmentaus movial fi wrote:
> >should work as you want. The use of allocation for coordinates is in
> >case the widget  has not got a window of it's own (in that case
> >widget->window points to its parent widgets window).
> 
> But please not that if your widget has any child widgets
> with windows of their own, this won't work. If this
> is the case, you'll have to use the root window as argument
> to gdk_pixbuf_get_from_drawable.
> 
> Both Kalle's solution and the rootwindow thing has the
> limitation that the widget must be visible on the screen. 

That won't work if the window is partially offscreen or obscured. 

I have a patch in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318807
which adds a way to do this in all cases (gtk_widget_get_snapshot()).

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