;; sshot.el - take screenshots of Emacs windows, view screenshots. ;; Author: Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com> ;; Version: 2006sep30 / 2006oct02 ;; Home page: <http://angg.twu.net/> ;; IRC: I'm "edrx" at freenode (channels #emacs and #eev). ;; License: GPL (yeah, I know, the legalese is missing! Sorry...) ;; URLs for this file: ;; <http://angg.twu.net/elisp/sshot.el> ;; <http://angg.twu.net/elisp/sshot.el.html> ;; Examples of output (in html flipbook format): ;; <http://angg.twu.net/flipbooks/eesteps.html> ;; <http://angg.twu.net/flipbooks/ee-glyph.html> ;; ;; Functions for taking series of (numbered) screenshots in Emacs. ;; Status: WARNING! This file is very recent, and at present only its ;; middle part ("view screenshots") is supposed to be easy to run... ;; The first part - that produce series of screenshots - and the third ;; part - that produce an html "interface" for viewing a series of ;; screenshots - depend heavily on eev, and I'm intending to use them ;; to make some of the ideas behind eev clearer. You are encouraged to ;; play with all parts, of course, but (1) beware the risk of ;; frustration if you're gonna play with parts 1 and 3, and (2) please ;; contact me if you have any questions or comments, no matter how ;; silly... My nickname is "edrx" and I'm often at the channels #emacs ;; and #eev at freenode. Cheers! ;; ;; The "take screenshots" part requires fvwm with eev support to get ;; the geometry of the Emacs window window (`sshot-save-geom-fvwm'), ;; and ImageMagick to generate the pngs; you can bypass the dependency ;; on fvwm if you have other ways to write the geometry of the region ;; to take screenshots of to the file /tmp/sshot.geom. See: ;; <http://angg.twu.net/eev-current/eev-langs.el.html#eefvwm> ;; Note: if you find other ways to get the geometry please tell me!!! ;; ;; The "view screenshots" part requires just a graphical Emacs. ;; Navigation through the screenshots in sshot-view-mode is done with ;; the keys <left> and <right>. This is better than watching passively ;; the animations in <http://angg.twu.net/eev-current/anim/> because: ;; (1) png screenshots can be viewed inside Emacs, ;; (2) they doesn't require a browser and a Flash plugin, ;; (3) you can "move forward and backward in time" though them, ;; (4) you can spend as much or as little time as you wish in each ;; screenshot, ;; (5) you can create hyperlinks to specific shots with `find-sshot'. ;; ;; The "html flipbooks" part generates HTML pages like these: ;; <http://angg.twu.net/flipbooks/eesteps.html> ;; <http://angg.twu.net/flipbooks/ee-glyph.html> ;; You won't need to run it unless you are creating your own series of ;; screenshots - but for that you will need fvwm, etc. ;; ;; KNOWN BUG: sometimes typing the key for `sshot-take' (i.e., ;; "<print>") once will take two screenshots instead of one... I don't ;; know why that happens, and my current workaround is a hackish ;; script to removes duplicates: ;; <http://angg.twu.net/bin/sshot-uniq.lua.html> ;; <http://angg.twu.net/.emacs.html#sshot> ;; The style of this file is reminiscent of my Forth roots. ;; Take screenshots. ;; (defvar sshot-geom-file "/tmp/sshot.geom") (defvar sshot-fname-prefix "/tmp/sshot/test") ;; "test_001.png", "_002.png"... (defvar sshot-next 1) (defun sshot-save-geom-fwvm () (eefvwm0 (format "Current Exec sh -c '%s > %s'" "echo $[w.width]x$[w.height]+$[w.x]+$[w.y]" (ee-expand sshot-geom-file)))) (defun sshot-save-geom () (sshot-save-geom-fwvm)) (defun sshot-geom () (ee-no-trailing-nl (ee-read-file sshot-geom-file))) (defun sshot-n-to-fname (n) (format "%s_%03d.png" sshot-fname-prefix n)) (defun sshot-fname-next () (sshot-n-to-fname sshot-next)) (defun sshot-import-cmd () (format "import -window root -crop %s %s" (sshot-geom) (sshot-fname-next))) (defun sshot-import () (find-sh0 (sshot-import-cmd))) (defun sshot-next++ () (setq sshot-next (1+ sshot-next))) (defun sshot-dir () (file-name-directory sshot-fname-prefix)) (defun sshot-mkdir () (make-directory (file-name-directory (sshot-dir)) t)) (defun sshot-fname-*png () (concat sshot-fname-prefix "*.png")) (defun sshot-rm-v-shots () (find-sh0 (format "rm -v %s" (sshot-fname-*png)))) (defun sshot-next=1 () (setq sshot-next 1)) (defun sshot-cursor () (blink-cursor-mode 0)) (defun sshot-blink () (blink-cursor-mode 1)) (defun sshot-init (prefix) (interactive) (setq sshot-fname-prefix prefix) (sshot-rm-v-shots) (sshot-mkdir) (sshot-next=1) (sshot-save-geom) (sshot-cursor)) (defun sshot-take () (interactive) (sshot-import) (sshot-next++)) (global-set-key (kbd "<print>") 'sshot-take) ;; A test, or: "this is how I produce a certain series of screenshots". ;; You are not expected to understand all of this!!! ;; (eval-buffer) ;; (set-frame-size (selected-frame) 80 25) ;; (recenter 12) ;; (sshot-init "/tmp/sshot/eesteps") ;; (find-efunctiondescr 'eesteps) ;; (sshot-blink) ;; (sshot-write-html) ;; For viewing them: ;; (find-fline (sshot-dir)) ;; (find-fline "/tmp/sshot/") ;; (find-sshot "/tmp/sshot/eesteps" 1) ;; View screenshots in Emacs. ;; Here's a way to try the viewer: ;; mkdir -p /tmp/flipbooks/ ;; cd /tmp/flipbooks/ ;; wget http://angg.twu.net/flipbooks/eesteps.tgz ;; tar -xvzf eesteps.tgz ;; and then: ;; (find-sshot "/tmp/flipbooks/eesteps" 1) ;; (defvar sshot-view-mode-map (make-sparse-keymap)) (define-key sshot-view-mode-map (kbd "<left>") 'sshot-open-prev) (define-key sshot-view-mode-map (kbd "<right>") 'sshot-open-next) (define-minor-mode sshot-view-mode "Navigate through screenshots with <left> and <right>." nil " sshot-view" sshot-view-mode-map) (defvar sshot-this nil) (make-variable-buffer-local 'sshot-this) (defun sshot-exists-p (n) (file-exists-p (sshot-n-to-fname n))) (defun sshot-not-found (n) (error "Not found: %s" (sshot-n-to-fname n))) (defun sshot-assert (n) (or (sshot-exists-p n) (sshot-not-found n))) (defun sshot-open (n) (sshot-assert n) (find-file (sshot-n-to-fname n)) (sshot-view-mode 1) (setq sshot-this n)) (defun sshot-open-prev () (interactive) (sshot-open (- sshot-this 1))) (defun sshot-open-next () (interactive) (sshot-open (+ sshot-this 1))) (defun find-sshot (prefix n) (setq sshot-fname-prefix prefix) (sshot-open n)) ;; Html flipbooks. ;; This is used to make the html thingies to view series of ;; screenshots, like this one: ;; <http://angg.twu.net/flipbooks/eesteps.html> ;; (defun sshot-aname (n) (format "<a name=\"%03d\"></a>" n)) (defun sshot-imgsrc (pr n) (format "<img src=\"%s_%03d.png\">" pr n)) (defun sshot-prev-text (n) (format "←%03d" n)) (defun sshot-prev-href (n) (format "<a href=\"#%03d\">←%03d</a>" n n)) (defun sshot-next-text (n) (format "%03d→" n)) (defun sshot-next-href (n) (format "<a href=\"#%03d\">%03d→</a>" n n)) (defun sshot-image-html (prefix max n) (format "%s\n%s<br>\n%s %s<br>\n" (sshot-aname n) (sshot-imgsrc prefix n) (if (<= n 1) (sshot-prev-text (- n 1)) (sshot-prev-href (- n 1))) (if (>= n max) (sshot-next-text (+ n 1)) (sshot-next-href (+ n 1))))) (defun sshot-images-html (prefix max) (mapconcat (lambda (n) (sshot-image-html prefix max n)) (number-sequence 1 max) "<br>\n\n")) (defun sshot-html-wrap (title body tail) (format "<html>\n%s\n%s</html>\n" (format "<head>\n<title>%s</title>\n</head>" title) (format "<body bgcolor=\"#4C4C4C\">\n\n%s\n%s\n</body>" body tail))) (defun sshot-mkstr (s n) (mapconcat (lambda (n) s) (number-sequence 1 n) "")) (defun sshot-html-3 (title prefix max) (sshot-html-wrap title (sshot-images-html prefix max) (sshot-mkstr "<br>\n" 40))) (defun sshot-stem () (file-name-nondirectory sshot-fname-prefix)) (defun sshot-fname-html () (format "%s.html" sshot-fname-prefix)) (defun sshot-title-html () (format "flipbook: %s" (sshot-stem))) (defun sshot-html-0 () (sshot-html-3 (sshot-title-html) (sshot-stem) (- sshot-next 1))) (defun sshot-write-html () (write-region (sshot-html-0) nil (sshot-fname-html))) (provide 'sshot)