[Wtr-general] screenshots

[Cain, Mark]

Take a look at the screen capture module in the watir/screen_capture.rb.
it should be able to do what you are asking...

--Mark


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[mailto:wtr-general-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Phlip
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 8:12 AM
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Subject: [Wtr-general] screenshots

Watirists:

I want to take a picture of a web page in its tested state.

(I'm setting up an acceptance test rig with MiniRubyWiki and
RSpec_Watir, and MRW can display a gallery of screen captures. If I
can record them!)

The options are:

 - display the browser, and use Snaggit or a similar
    screen capture program to record the browser,
    toolbars and all

 - The above, but an option in Snaggit to get the
    client window only. This is risky if I have other
    windows up!

 - use @browser.getHTML, save a file, and use
   IExtractImage->Extract() to convert the _file_
   to PNG

The problem with the first two is they are fragile and slow, and I
could capture the wrong thing. Chronically. The problem with the last
one is I'm converting a file, not the Internet Explorer's DOM in its
exact visual state. I want to look for things like the keyboard focus,
position of dynamic elements, etc.

Now what am I missing? Can I get the HWND from @browser, then copy its
GDI display context?

-- 
  Phlip
  http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand  <-- NOT a blog!!
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