Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bnrgate!bnr-fos!bigsur!darren2
From: darren2@bigsur.UUCP (Darren Toop)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: screen dump those damn popup menus
Message-ID: <476@bigsur.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 90 20:17:47 GMT
Reply-To: darren2@bigsur.UUCP (Darren Toop)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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Oh, how I hate retyping what is already on the screen.

Oh, how I love to make a screen dump of the new version of my tool 
so the technical writer has a high probability of getting it right.

Oh, how dissapointed I was that X.11/clients/xpr/xdpr would not
screen dump if I had a menu popped up (couldn't grab the focus).

Oh, how happy I was to find that there is a trivial workaround.
I call it xdprd, for "xpdr delayed".  It waits 10 seconds and
screen dumps the root window, and all sub windows.  It's a bit of 
overkill but some guy keeps bugging me about adding another
feature to my program, so I didn't spend a lot of time on it:


The following is the diff from X.11/clients/xpr/xdpr
30c30
< xwd $dv | xpr $flags | lpr $prntr
---
> sleep 10; xwd -root $dv | xpr $flags | lpr $prntr

It sleeps for 10 seconds to give you time to popup the menu/
dialog/etc, then dumps the root window.