Re: Printing contents of the active Desktop window
Re: Printing contents of the active Desktop window
- Subject: Re: Printing contents of the active Desktop window
- From: "I. Savant" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:26:41 -0400
> Exactly - the entire contents (beyond what will fit on the screen) as a
> list of filenames. In most cases a screenshoot will not be able to show
> the entire directory contents... thus requiring multiple screenshots.
Stitching screenshots together to get a printalbe directory listing?
< wise-ass > The 1990s called, it wants its computer workflow back.
< /wise-ass > ;-)
Have you thought about this from a higher altitude at all? If you
want to create an image of a directory listing, why not:
1 - Ask Finder for the path in its frontmost window (via AppleScript)
2 - Using NSFileManager, get a list of the folder's contents to taste
3 - Populate an off-screen outline view with that list* (or some other method)
4 - Ask the view for its PDF data
5 - Optionally convert the PDF data to some other image format via NSImage
6 - Write the resulting data to a file
* I believe there's an example app in your developer folder that does
this already (albeit on-screen) and could be easily adapted to save
you a great deal of work.
Wise-ass comment aside, this is probably (by far) the easier route,
both for you as a developer and for your users.
--
I.S.
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