Making a screenshot

Hi, anybody know how to make a screenshot of the current
backbuffer
surface? Maybe integrating it with Klipper or making a
bitmap file of it?
Thanks alot in advance.


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It is as simple as calling:

SDL_SaveBMP( pSurface,"FILE.BMP" );

The pSurface is a pointer to a SDL_Surface and the string is
the filename to
save it as.

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Subject: [SDL] Making a screenshot

Hi, anybody know how to make a screenshot of the current
backbuffer
surface? Maybe integrating it with Klipper or making a
bitmap file of it?
Thanks alot in advance.


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> It is as simple as calling:
> 
> SDL_SaveBMP( pSurface,"FILE.BMP" );
> 
> The pSurface is a pointer to a SDL_Surface and the
string is the filename to
> save it as.

Yes. And for OpenGL, call glReadPixels() to get the contents
of the 
OpenGL framebuffer...then you'd need to get the raw pixel
data into some 
format you can use (like a SDL_Surface for SDL_SaveBMP,
etc).

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Ah, I see thanks guys. Although my first impression about
screenshot would
be copying the surface to a clipboard daemon (eg. Klipper,
or Windows'
Clipboard). But because I don't understand Linux that much,
making a
bitmap file of the surface will be suffice right now. Maybe
I'll explore
more on how to copy the surface's contents to KDE's Klipper
when I have
time. Thanks alot guys.

Ryan C. Gordon said:
>
>> It is as simple as calling:
>>
>> SDL_SaveBMP( pSurface,"FILE.BMP" );
>>
>> The pSurface is a pointer to a SDL_Surface and the
string is the
>> filename to
>> save it as.
>
> Yes. And for OpenGL, call glReadPixels() to get the
contents of the
> OpenGL framebuffer...then you'd need to get the raw
pixel data into some
> format you can use (like a SDL_Surface for SDL_SaveBMP,
etc).
>
> --ryan.
>
>
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