Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screenshots as PNGs

2009-10-07 Thread Martin Spott
Ron Jensen wrote: > [...] I would prefer the screen shot code to > generate an image identical to what is shown on the screen. Good point, especially as you can easily initiate a screen dump by pressing Alt-F (or maybe F3, I've forgotten ), thus you don't need the menu to create one,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screenshots as PNGs

2009-10-07 Thread James Turner
On 7 Oct 2009, at 15:04, Curtis Olson wrote: > ... and if you don't want any gui elements in your screenshot, it's > easy enough to turn them all off and use the F3 hot key to take the > snapshot. (Close all the dialog boxes, and then F10 toggles the > menu on/off) I was aware of this (an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screenshots as PNGs

2009-10-07 Thread Curtis Olson
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Ron Jensen wrote: > One man's feature is another man's bug. :) While admittedly most screen > shots don't want the UI shown, a very large percentage of screen shots > I've shared were created to show the UI components as part of a tutorial > or to demonstrate an is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screenshots as PNGs

2009-10-07 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 09:33 +0100, James Turner wrote: > In fact, it would be possibly to write out in any format which your > OSG has a loadable plugin for - JPEG, BMP, whatever. All that's needed > is to change the file extension we append to the name in FG. (And, I > haven't tested the beh

[Flightgear-devel] Screenshots as PNGs

2009-10-07 Thread James Turner
If you update SG and FG, screenshots are now written as PNGs - please give it a go! In fact, it would be possibly to write out in any format which your OSG has a loadable plugin for - JPEG, BMP, whatever. All that's needed is to change the file extension we append to the name in FG. (And, I