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Jun 11, 2003, 9:10 AM
doom
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Create Thumb of HTML page with Perl!
Is the any way to create thumb of html page on a fly with perl?

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Dmitry
Jun 11, 2003, 1:51 PM
Paul
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Jun 11, 2003, 1:51 PM
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You can't take a screenshot of anything without your target image/text displayed on screen.
Jun 11, 2003, 2:01 PM
doom
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This is true. But how the windows does it?

I mean it creates html thumbs in Windows Explorer.



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Dmitry
Jun 11, 2003, 2:35 PM
Andy
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Jun 11, 2003, 2:35 PM
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Yeah, but thats Windows. Programmed in C, C++ (or whatever they use). Its a totally different technology. Wink

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Jun 11, 2003, 2:49 PM
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Jun 11, 2003, 2:49 PM
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Have your script open up a web browser, capture the screen and produce an image using GD set of modules?

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Jun 11, 2003, 2:49 PM
doom
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Not doubt it's windows. C or C++ it's not a problem.

You can do pretty much everything on Perl. The problem is i,m not sure how the algorithm will looks like.

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Jun 11, 2003, 2:57 PM
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Hmm! But you have to open a browser window first.

Is the any way to copy image directly in buffer without open the browser windows?

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Dmitry
Jun 11, 2003, 3:06 PM
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Jun 11, 2003, 3:06 PM
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Is the any way to copy image directly in buffer without open the browser windows?

That's what I said in my original reply. The "thing" you want to capture has to be visible on the desktop in order for it to be captured. You can't copy a html page into a "buffer" as there is no way for the operating system to know what the html page should look like.
Jun 11, 2003, 3:06 PM
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You could probably do it *somehow* on an NT server ... but NT... eugh!

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Jun 11, 2003, 3:07 PM
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What's the eugh for?...NT is an excellent platform.
Jun 11, 2003, 3:23 PM
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That not what I've heard. You have to reboot it every day or so (UNIX can last months, or even years, without the need for a reboot) ... and there are a *ton* of worms and stuff that love playing with NT webservers.

Still say Eugh! Wink

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Jun 11, 2003, 3:31 PM
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Well! i still going to investigate it and i,m pretty sure i will find some solution. Any way if come up with something i will post it.



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Dmitry
Jun 11, 2003, 3:34 PM
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Hey Andy!

You right NT sucks. Too much troubles. I better stick with a Unix.



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Jun 11, 2003, 3:42 PM
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Jun 11, 2003, 3:42 PM
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Don't believe everything you hear.

Windowx XP runs on the NT kernel and I can leave my pc running with apache, php, perl, mysql for a long time with no problems.

I'm sure it's more stressful for a live server but rebooting every day or two is either:

a) Poorly configured server
b) Anti-MS bull.

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Jun 12, 2003, 1:36 AM
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Hi

With an NT server you could configure your Perl to trigger a macro that would open up a browser window with a supplied argument which was your URL. You could then take a screengrab of the screen again with a macro.

But macros are evil, but that's another story ...

- wil