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    Default QPixmap::grabWidget and QPixmap::grabWindow with QGLWidget-derived object

    Hi,

    I am using Qt 4.3.4. I am trying to get a screen capture of a QGLWidget-derived object saved to a file. I followed the Qt Screenshot example. However, when I examine the image that I get from the following code:

    Qt Code:
    1. QPixmap originalPixmap = QPixmap::grabWidget(qglThing);
    2. originalPixmap.save("C:\\example.png", "png");
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    the image is simply a black box (which would be the bottom layer in my scene graph). Clearly, this doesn't behave the same as Windows alt-print screen mnemonic.

    Is there something special that I have to do to grab the QGLWidget-derived image? Is this a bug? Or would I have to use an entirely different method?

    Thanks,
    David
    Last edited by jpn; 20th August 2008 at 21:36. Reason: missing [code] tags

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    Default Re: QPixmap::grabWidget and QPixmap::grabWindow with QGLWidget-derived object

    I can imagine grabbing GL widget will not work. You might try grabbing the desktop widget and cutting out the interesting part. Otherwise you might need to use QGLFrameBufferObject to render the widget to the buffer and then convert it to an image.

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