[Qgis-developer] manual/automatic screenshots

[Mayeul Kauffmann]

Hi,
+1. See older thread:

De: 	Mayeul Kauffmann <mayeul.kauffmann at free.fr>
À: 	Mars Sjoden <aurorageomatics at gmail.com>
Cc: 	Andrew Chapman <andrew.chapman at donkagen.co.uk>,
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
Sujet: 	Re: [Qgis-developer] Testing and releases
Date: 	Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:47:37 +0200


Hi,
Some time ago I used xmacro (a Keyboard/mouse macro utility) to create a
set of screenshots for a software (GanttProject) in about 15 languages;
then it was integrated in OpenOffice documents with relative links.
In my experience only the keyboard part was reliable, which requires to
have unique and stable keyboard shortcuts for every single menu and
dialog box, which is currently very far to be the case (improvements
here will also improve usability and user productivity). Interaction in
the map canvas is more problematic here.

There is also this from the qt manual:
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.8-snapshot/gettingstarted-develop.html#testing-qt-applications
including this which supports mouse and keyboard simulation:
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.8-snapshot/qtestlib-manual.html



Mayeul



Le mardi 15 novembre 2011 à 11:06 +0100, Paolo Cavallini a écrit :
> Hi all.
> I see we are moving away from LaTeX, a move that will bring us more 
> translators, I think. In the occasion, could we think how to make 
> screenshots more automatic? I think we can add a command to rst to 
> automatically generate them during compilation, e.g. qgis --snapshot 
> filename --project filename.
> Currently this does not allow to open menus etc, but at least some of 
> the screenshots could be made automatic. This could allow to have 
> different manuals for different operating systems, different languages 
> etc. with less effort.
> All the best.
>