[Vnc2swf-users] ideas for recordwin

[David K. <dav...@gm...>]

Hi,
I'm on Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) and I couldn't get recordwin to work
correctly. It was clipping the window wrong (seemed to be the right
size, but offset by the difference between top-corner, and
screen-corner, so unusable) and the syntax for x11vnc was wrong (-mouse
is deprecated) so it wouldn't start the vnc server. Also the wait time
for the vnc server didn't work for me, so I increased it.

I wrote a GUI version that asks you for a filename, if not set, and uses
a slightly different method to capture one window, which works better
for me. It requires zenity (included on Ubuntu) for the file-selection
dialog and the "Click Ok when you are finished capturing" , but you can
just set it to a string, or comment it out, and remove the dialog, to
make it behave more like recordwin.

This method also allows you to move the window, and have it be tracked
(It doesn't just clip, it parents the VNC server to the window.) It will
end the capture if you resize, though.

I added a launcher to my menubar, and it works really well, for my purposes.

You can see a demo of it's output here:
http://jetboystudio.com/downloads/vnc2swf.html