[Rails-devel] Some help properly printing the OR window to a file

[Jonathan C. <jco...@gm...>]

So, for the last couple of days I've been working on a weird little app
that I've wanted for a while. A lot of moves in 18xx games are quite
simple, especially doing the SR...but a rails move requires you to be at
your computer, load up java, make a move, etc. A lot of the time it's much
faster to just make a move on the go via email, letting someone else
update...but then if the game state changes a lot, that can be tough.

So I have made an app that will listen to drop box and then send an email
with the game state every time a new file appears. That said! I am running
into a final barrier that is a bit past my knowledge of swing (which is
nonexistent). I figured the devs would probably know exactly what is going
on, so I thought I'd ask.

In order to achieve this, I hacked rails master to have a class which
starts rails, takes the screen shots, and then shuts down. It's ugly! But
it doesn't have to be pretty.

Here is a diff with master that shows what I did:
https://github.com/jcoveney/Rails/compare/master...jcoveney:master_printer
(as an aside: if you have any advice for achieving all of this in a cleaner
way I'm all ears)

If I run this on a game currently in an SR, you can see the resulting
screenshot below. The relevant code:

        ORWindow orWindowPanel = orUIManager.getOrWindow();
        orWindowPanel.setVisible(true);
        orWindowPanel.toFront();
        PrintGame.printPanel(orWindowPanel, "or_window.png");

I'm not sure what else I need to do to get the map to render properly. I've
had this problem with various iterations, so I thought I would ask. Any
advice?

And while I doubt there is much interest, if anyone is curious about the
code that bridges everything together...
https://github.com/jcoveney/poll_rails_game/tree/scratchspace_rebaseintomaster/src/main/scala/poll_rails_game
Nothing particularly crazy, it's just taken some time to get all of the
pieces working together, as there are a lot of random integrations
(dropbox, sendgrid, getting vnc working properly in aws).

[image: or_window.png]