I am trying to capture a screenshot of my application within the application. Its a Qt-based application. Is anyone aware of how to do this? Any suggestions are very welcome.
CV
I am trying to capture a screenshot of my application within the application. Its a Qt-based application. Is anyone aware of how to do this? Any suggestions are very welcome.
CV
You can tell any QWidget
(including your QMainWindow
) to render itself off-screen:
http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/qwidget.html#render
Technically this is not a screenshot as it renders the widget explicitely for this purpose instead of capturing what is seen on-screen. For almost any purpose it doesn't matter.
If you have a GL widget, you can/must instead use grabFramebuffer() which has the advantage of capturing what is seen on the screen.
With this example you could get all your widget screen. You could attach this method to any key press or signal, as you prefer, to get successive screenshot.
MyClass::screenshot()
{
QWidget *w = QApplication::activeWindow();
if(w) {
static int count = 0;
QPixmap p = QPixmap::grabWidget(w);
p.save(QString("/your/path/screenshot%1.png").arg(count));
count++;
}
}
QPixmap lets you do a window grab if you have the ID. My references are for PyQt but I'm sure you can make the adjustments:
How to get RGB values of QPixmap or QImage pixel - Qt, PyQt
http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qpixmap.html#grabWindow
In modern QT 5+ it can be done like that:
void MainWindow::takeScreenshot(const QString screenshotFileName)
{
if(isActiveWindow())
{
auto grabbedScreenshot = QWidget::grab();
grabbedScreenshot.save(screenshotFileName);
}
}