From: Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2006-06-24T09:24:51+09:00
Subject: Re: X screen capture

brian.mattern@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I started rewriting a screen capture application of mine in ruby in order 
> to test some ruby bindings for the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries).
> In the c version, I use Imlib2 to grab screen data, but it doesn't look
> like the imlib2 ruby bindings can do this yet. (The X specific calls
> aren't finished).
>
> I next thought about using RMagick, but it seems as though it can only
> capture the entire screen. Is this a limitation of RMagick or ImageMagick? 
>
> Finally, are there any other ruby-bound libs out there that can grab
> pixel data from the screen?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian Mattern
>
>
>   
You can use Magick::Image.capture to capture individual windows.  Set 
self.filename to the window id:

img = Magick::Image.capture { self.filename = "0x60000e" }

http://www.simplesystems.org/RMagick/doc/image1.html#capture