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- From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Date: 17 Jul 92 18:58 MDT
- Subject: Re: Screen capture retaining pointe
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- Message-ID: <1992Jul17.145859.28956@thunder.m>
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- Nf-From: thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!mouse Jul 17 18:58:00 1992
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- In article <1992Jul13.105243.2408@pictel.com>, oj@pictel.com (Oliver Jones) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul10.123748.26945@PA.dec.com>, neideck@kaputt.enet.dec.com (Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz) writes:
- >> In article <1992Jul10.002907.20496@ccu.umanitoba.ca> rafiq@silver.cs.umanitoba.ca (Salik Rafiq) writes:
- >>> I'm looking for a program to perform a screen capture but retain
- >>> the mouse pointer, [...].
- >> This is *impossible* to do on machines with hardware cursors (i.e.
- >> each and every machine made by Digital) .
- > It's not impossible, just hard and kludgey. (Tt's almost impossible
- > for something to be impossible in X :-)
-
- Unfortunately it is impossible within X, *regardless* of whether the
- machine uses a hardware cursor or not. (Unless of course the server
- contains an extension designed for this, which as far as I know does
- not exist.)
-
- > So, copy the window's contents to a pixmap, then query the cursor
- > position and render the cursor into the pixmap,
-
- But this can't be done, because there is no way to find out what the
- cursor looks like. There isn't even any way to find out what cursor is
- being used for a given window, since there may be no XID for it any
- longer.
-
- You're probably better off looking for some system-dependent mechanism,
- like screendump on a Sun....
-
- der Mouse
-
- mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
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