Capture image of componen

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Capture image of component
http://sdnshare.sun.com/view.jsp?id=2434

I put this little code example up at SDNShare to answer
a question on the Sun forums. Since it is so cute, I
thought I'd reproduce it here*.

* c.l.j.g. & h, w/ f-u set to c.l.j.h. only. Set the follow-ups
as you see fit.

<sscce>
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.Graphics;

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;

import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.awt.event.InputEvent;

import javax.swing.*;

import javax.swing.border.TitledBorder;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

import java.io.File;

/**
Create a screenshot of a component.
@author Andrew Thompson
*/
class ComponentImageCapture {

  static final String HELP =
    "Type Ctrl-0 to get a screenshot of the current GUI.\n" +
    "The screenshot will be saved to the current " +
    "directory as 'screenshot.png'.";

  public static BufferedImage getScreenShot(
    Component component) {

    BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(
      component.getWidth(),
      component.getHeight(),
      BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB
      );
    // call the Component's paint method, using
    // the Graphics object of the image.
    component.paint( image.getGraphics() );
    return image;
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Runnable r = new Runnable() {
      public void run() {
        final JFrame f = new JFrame("Test Screenshot");

        JMenuItem screenshot =
          new JMenuItem("Screenshot");
        screenshot.setAccelerator(
          KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(
            KeyEvent.VK_0,
            InputEvent.CTRL_DOWN_MASK
          ));
        screenshot.addActionListener(
          new ActionListener(){
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {
              BufferedImage img = getScreenShot(
                f.getContentPane() );
              JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(
                null,
                new JLabel(
                  new ImageIcon(
                    img.getScaledInstance(
                      img.getWidth(null)/2,
                      img.getHeight(null)/2,
                      Image.SCALE_SMOOTH )
                    )));
              try {
                // write the image as a PNG
                ImageIO.write(
                  img,
                  "png",
                  new File("screenshot.png"));
              } catch(Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
              }
            }
          } );
        JMenu menu = new JMenu("Other");
        menu.add(screenshot);
        JMenuBar mb = new JMenuBar();
        mb.add(menu);
        f.setJMenuBar(mb);

        JPanel p = new JPanel( new BorderLayout(5,5) );
        p.setBorder( new TitledBorder("Main GUI") );
        p.add( new JScrollPane(new JTree()),
          BorderLayout.WEST );
        p.add( new JScrollPane( new JTextArea(HELP,10,30) ),
          BorderLayout.CENTER );
        p.validate();

        f.setContentPane( p );
        f.pack();
        f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        f.setVisible(true);
      }
    };
    SwingUtilities.invokeLater(r);
  }
}
</sscce>

--
Andrew Thompson
http://pscode.org/

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