Re: [Visualpython-users] Why no screenshot function?

[Anders W. <and...@gm...>]

It turns out the command 'scrot' works better on my system, it takes a
screenshot of the whole screen. I could then batch-process each file
to crop the visual window and then assemble into a movie.
But all of this seems like a lot of trouble when the c-code to do a
screenshot using SDL/OpenGL is something like:

void Screendump(char *destFile, short W, short H) {
 FILE   *out = fopen(destFile, "w");
 char   pixel_data[3*W*H];
 short  TGAhead[] = {0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, W, H, 24};
 glReadBuffer(GL_FRONT);
 glReadPixels(0, 0, W, H, GL_BGR, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, pixel_data);
 fwrite(&TGAhead, sizeof(TGAhead), 1, out);
 fwrite(pixel_data, 3*W*H, 1, out);
 fclose(out);
}

Could this perhaps be wrapped as a separate python extension and would
it then work with visual??