xsnap is a program that allows one to interactively take a "snapshot" of a
region of the screen. This snapshot is then saved to a window. I've found
it useful for such things as comparing a window's "before and after"
pictures when debugging graphics code, and quicker than using xwd and xwud
when there's no other reason to save a window to a file. However, it does
eat up server memory, since it creates a pixmap for each snapshot.
It also illustrates how one can have a user interactively specify a region
of the screen or of a window using rubberbanding. The code for doing so is
pretty self-contained and, if one is interested, it should be pretty easy
to rip it out and use it in something else.
As with all free code: no warranty, any shape, any color.
-- Clauss Strauch
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xsnap has been renamed to asnap by Bill Janssen who has added code to allow
saving the snapped image in "xwd" and "ATK raster" formats and specifying
the region to snap in args rather than interactively.
Bill Janssen
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
janssen@parc.xerox.com
Then Arnaud Le Hors fixed asnap code to handle correctly the region option,
added code to allow saving the snapped image in XPM format, and renamed it
to xsnap as originaly.
Arnaud LE HORS
BULL Research FRANCE -- Koala Project
lehors@mirsa.inria.fr
COMPILATION HINTS:
Edit the Imakefile to set XPM_INCLUDES, XPMLIB variables to whatever fits
to your environment.
DEFINES is set by default to -DATK -DXPM in order to compile with atk
and xpm features but can be redefined as you want.
The last version of XPM can always be found by ftp in contrib on
expo.lcs.mit.edu and in pub on avahi.inria.fr.
