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[Laurent Rineau <>]

On Monday 12 May 2008 12:53:34 Mahmood Naderan wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to save the QT output window in a known picture format. To do this I
> found these statements: QPixmap pixmap(widget->size());
>     widget->render(&pixmap);
>     pixmap.save("myWidget.png");
> The error of using this is:error C2039: 'render' : is not a member of
> 'CGAL::Qt_widget' error C2661: 'QPixmap::save' : no overloaded function
> takes 1 arguments

Indeed, there is no such function 'render' in Qt3's QWidget.

Anyway, CGAL::Qt_widget has a documented function get_pixmap(), that gives 
you 
a pixmap of the widget's viewport. See the documentation:
http://www.cgal.org/Manual/3.3/doc_html/cgal_manual/Qt_widget_ref/Class_Qt_widget.html

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