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RE: full screen capture of another app's window
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RE: full screen capture of another app's window


  • Subject: RE: full screen capture of another app's window
  • From: Steve Ehrenfried <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:17:09 -0700 (PDT)

Yes I have. Grab has "Window" disabled under its
"Capture" menu.

-Steve

--- Chris Rock <email@hidden> wrote:
> And you have tried grab under OS X?
>
> - Rock
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: email@hidden
> [mailto:email@hidden] On Behalf
> Of Steve Ehrenfried
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 8:48 PM
> To: email@hidden
> Subject: full screen capture of another app's window
>
> Is there a way to do a full screen capture of
> another
> application's window in Cocoa? Just thought I'd try
> here as people in the Carbon list all said that this
> was impossible, but Cocoa might have access to
> certain
> things that Carbon doesn't. FWIW, this IS possible
> under Windows.
>
> I need to do a capture of the entire image, not just
> what's visible in one window. I know there's a way
> to
> capture the entire screen, as shown in the snapshot
> sample code, but this is not what I want to do. I
> want
> to capture a specific window in a specific
> application, and capture the entire image, so that
> if
> the document is 8 pages long, then I want an image
> of
> all 8 pages rendered.
>
> The Print -> Preview -> Save as PDF approach isn't
> attractive to me as I only get the content view and
> I
> don't get an exact replica of what's seen on the
> screen.
>
> None of the Apple-supplied or third-party screen
> capture applications offer this capability on OS X,
> from what I can tell. Maybe there's no easy
> programmatic solution to this on OS X?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
>
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