Re: Newbie suggestion required: WebKit thumbnail generation
Re: Newbie suggestion required: WebKit thumbnail generation
- Subject: Re: Newbie suggestion required: WebKit thumbnail generation
- From: "James B. Tuley" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:03:15 -0500
On Sep 13, 2004, at 8:13 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 00:31:31 +0200
From: Giulio Cesare Solaroli <email@hidden>
Subject: Newbie suggestion required: WebKit thumbnail generation
To: email@hidden
Message-ID: <email@hidden>
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Hi everybody.
I would like to write a tool that, taken an url, could save the
"thumbnail" of the loaded page in jpeg (or any other bitmap format).
I think the starting point should be the WebView class.
But, once I have a full loaded WebView instance, what is the best path
to get a bitmap of the rendered page?
Should I take the "print" path (using NSPrintOperation and the like)?
I am willing to read through the reference, but as they are quite
huge, some suggestions to focus on the more relevant topics would be
very welcome.
Thanks in advance for any reply.
In TrailBlazer (Open Source, BSD License) we mucked around a bit with
making a nice thumbnail that represented a page. The problem with print
is your going to get the entire page back and your going to have to
crop it and thanks to the awesomeness of css you might get something
back that looks really good on paper but doesn't look like your
webpage. Ultimately we locked focus on the right component view of a
WebView and initialized an NSBitmapRep from it.
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/macwarriors/projects/trailblazer
hint: look in the class "MyDocument.m" (yeah someone should have
renamed it, but it was just a prototype)
-Jay
http://indyjt.com
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