[cairo] cairo_surface_write_to_png and 32-bit visuals in 1.10.0

[Chris Wilson]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:36:09 +0100, Ross Alexander <Ross.Alexander at EU.NEC.COM> wrote:
> Background: I was tired of using xwd, especially as it does not support RGBA 32 bit visuals.  I hacked together a program from the latest xwininfo (based on XCB) to get the Window ID using a pointer selection and then created a surface based on that ID.
> 
> #ifdef XLIB
>   cairo_surface_t *surface = cairo_xlib_surface_create(dpy, target_win, vinfos[0].visual, geom->width, geom->height);
> #else
>   cairo_surface_t *surface = cairo_xcb_surface_create(conn, target_win, v, geom->width, geom->height);
> #endif
>   free(geom);
>   cairo_surface_write_to_png(surface, file);
> 
> This works fine for 24-bit visual windows but with 32-bit visuals (eg gnome-terminal) I get the following error.
> 
> xwd: cairo-xcb-surface.c:504: _get_image: Assertion `reply->depth == surface->depth' failed.
> 
> Using xlib on 32-bit visuals doesn’t fail but instead produces a zero sized PNG file.

This just means that the visual you are using does not match target_win.

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre