[Qgis-user] Tool to copy the content of the map canvas to the clipboard

[Larry Shaffer]

Hi,

Sorry for the top post...

Btw, you can also grab iface.mainWindow() for the full application main
window screen shot. This just grabs the content area, so no native window
dressings, e.g. no title bar, etc.

There is also the fun stuff in this Qt5 example (I think one for Qt4, too):
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwidgets-desktop-screenshot-example.html

While the user could use another screen capture utility, having some
limited, but reasonable, capture functionality as part of QGIS core can be
quite useful, especially in educational settings, as it would require no
additional software.

Maybe even a simple movie recording feature that dumps to an animated GIF?
Ah, now that would be very, very useful and a fun feature to make. Btw, Qt
can grab the entire screen, or just the portions occupied by QGIS, as well.

Larry Shaffer
Dakota Cartography
Black Hills, South Dakota

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Larry Shaffer <larrys at dakotacarto.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:02 AM, DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2016-12-20 18:23 GMT+01:00 Bo Victor Thomsen <bo.victor.thomsen at gmail.com
>> >:
>>
>>> Hi List-members -
>>>
>>> Is there in Qgis a function / button / menu-item / short-cut / plugin to
>>> make a simple bitmap copy of the current content of the map-canvas and save
>>> it to the clipboard ? My users need this to make a copy of the map and
>>> paste into MS-Word or other software.
>>>
>>
> While not part of the QGIS app, one could use this PyQGIS snippet to do so
> (tested quickly on macOS 10.11.6 under QGIS 2.14) from the PyQGIS console:
>
> from PyQt4.QtGui import *
> QApplication.clipboard().setImage(QImage(QPixmap.
> grabWidget(iface.mapCanvas())))
>
> This avoids having to re-render the QGraphicsView (QgsMapCanvas) to a
> paint device, like an image. Code can be wrapped in a plugin, then have
> some key bindings applied (would need some more PyQt).
>
> Larry Shaffer
> Dakota Cartography
> Black Hills, South Dakota
>
>
>> I really need the functionality for my users and I can't seem to find it.
>>> The closest I've come is the "save as png" menu-item in the project menu.
>>> But it's to cumbersome to use in this case.
>>>
>>
>> Afaics, there's no "save as png" option but "save as image" in Project
>> menu, option from which you can choose the image file format (bmp, jpg...).
>> It's not on the clipboard but easier and more accessible than print
>> composer.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Harrissou
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I'm familiar with the composer function. My users can't use this neither
>>> because it takes to long to activate (to many choices and to many buttons
>>> to click)
>>>
>>> So I've decided to make a simple plugin to cover this functionality. But
>>> first I want to be very sure the function actually is missing ;-)
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Bo Victor Thomsen
>>> Municipality of Frederikssund, Denmark.
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