[fxruby-users] Snapshot of a widget

[Riccardo Giannitrapani]

Dear all

I have a problem that is probably really stupid, but that I cannot solve  
at the moment and I'm wondering if
someone has an idea of what's going wrong .. mainly inspired by the  
cookbook snippet of Lyle

http://www.fifthplanet.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Cookbook/Making_A_Snapshot_Of_A_Widget

I've done a small function in my code to take snapshots of widgets from  
inside my application in Ruby ..
here it is the code


######################################################################

# Create a snapshot of the drawable, where drawable is
# any FXDrawable subclass
def makeSnapshot(filename, drawable)

   completeName = File.basename(filename).match(/(.*)\.(.*)/)
   extension = completeName[2] unless completeName == nil

   case extension
   when "gif"
     snapshot = FXGIFImage.new($FredMW.getApp(), nil,  0,  
drawable.getWidth(), drawable.getHeight())
   when "bmp"
     snapshot = FXBMPImage.new($FredMW.getApp(), nil,  0,  
drawable.getWidth(), drawable.getHeight())
   when "jpg"
     snapshot = FXJPGImage.new($FredMW.getApp(), nil,  0,  
drawable.getWidth(), drawable.getHeight())
   when "png"
     snapshot = FXPNGImage.new($FredMW.getApp(), nil,  0,  
drawable.getWidth(), drawable.getHeight())
   else
     FXMessageBox.error(self, MBOX_OK, "Error on file format", "Please, use  
a file extension among (gif, bmp, jpg, png).")
     return
   end

   snapshot.create()

   dc = FXDCWindow.new(snapshot)


   dc.drawArea(drawable, 0, 0, drawable.getWidth(), drawable.getHeight(),  
0, 0)
   dc.end()

   snapshot.restore()

   FXFileStream.open(filename, FXStreamSave){|stream|
     snapshot.savePixels(stream)
   }
end

######################################################################


The problem is that this function works great on Windows, without any  
problem .. on Linux instead it produces broken images (
I cannot open the PNG with Gimp since it says something about a PNG broken  
.. the BMP format can be open but there is trash in the image, not the  
widget) .. any idea of what can be different between windows and linux on  
that particular function?

I'm using Ruby 1.8.1 and FXRuby 1.0.25

Thanks for the help, Riccardo :)



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