[maemo-developers] Screenshot as loading screen on Maemo 5

[From: Aniello Del Sorbo]

2009/10/14 Xabier Rodriguez Calvar <xrcalvar at igalia.com>:
> O Mar, 13-10-2009 ás 16:58 +0200, Thomas Perl escribiu:
>> With the latest firmware, the "Settings" window and the Application
>> Manager both show a fake screenshot when clicking the icon in the menu
>> and then fade to the "real" window contents after the application has
>> really started up (look closely at the "Language & region" icon in the
>> settings dialog when starting it to see what I mean, as the screenshot
>> contains a different icon than the real application).
>>
>> For applications that start up longer (e.g. Python applications) this
>> can be really helpful, and I'd like to do the same for gPodder if
>> possible.
>>
>> Is there an "official" way to do this for third party applications (or
>> how is it done at all)?
>
> For applications written in C, you have
> void hildon_gtk_window_take_screenshot (GtkWindow *window, gboolean
> take);
>
> http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/5.0-final/hildon/hildon-Additions-to-GTK
> +.html#hildon-gtk-window-take-screenshot
>
> This would be the right way of doing this as you could just create the
> screenshot when you consider that your screenshot should change, very
> useful if you have more than windows that can be shown on startup.
>

So ones needs to only call it once before destroying the main window
when exiting...

That's so cool.
I'll do it tonight.
Thanks.

--
anidel
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