On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:45:16 -0400 "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <jtw...@ttlc.net>
said:
>
> It would appear that on Aug 25, Carsten Haitzler did say:
>
> > On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:49:21 -0400 "J(tWdy)P" <jtw...@ttlc.net> said:
> > > Has emprint been depreciated or something???
> =============<snipped>=============
> > > If emprint really is going away, can somebody recommend another desktop
> > > independent CLI tool that I could modify my scripts to use?
> >
> > import (imagemagick)
> >
>
> Thanks for the clue Rasterman, I hadn't realized that imagemagick came
> with such a useful utility.
>
> One odd thing about it's non-interactive use:
>
> [ IE screen capture including menus ]
>
> I had a keyboard shortcut to do this with:
>
> emprint -delay 10
>
> which gave me more than enough time to open any menu I wanted in the image.
> Since I wasn't having much luck with import's -delay function, I wrote a
> simple test script to experiment with it.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # set delay....
> sleep 10
> # set filename...
> OuTfIlE="$HOME/tmp/autosnap.png"
> # take snapshot
> import -window root ${OuTfIlE}
>
> The odd thing is that if I called this script from an xterm instead of the
> everything launcher or setting a keyboard shortcut, I only got the top
> level of E17's menu, with any submenus reduced to a black shadow.
>
> see: http://i56.tinypic.com/za3k3.png
>
> But if I call it with the everything launcher a keyboard shortcut or even
> xfrun4 the submenus do make it into the image.
>
> But it's all good, I only called it from the xterm window to test the
> script. Once I called it the another way I quickly figured out that it
> wasn't going to be a problem.
>
> But I am curious though. I mean when I first experimented with emprint the
> same way, it worked perfectly from an xterm. I'm guessing the Enlightenment
> developers just plain write better code.
hmm no. i don't think we wrote better code. ours is just a LOT simpler and i
suspect we do things very differently. :)
> Thanks again!
>
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