Martin and Tomeu, Martin, thanx a lot for such a detailed answer. I have got what you want to say. But the problem with me right now is that I think the get_preview function is available only in the latest release of sugar 0.84 because I am on 0.82, and my xo gives an error -- " Activity module does not have an attribute get_preview" . Is it so that the function has been added after 0.82 ? If yes, then is there any way on 0.82 build to take screenshots programatically. There is one strange thing which I am encountering right now. Though the log gives an error that get_preview function is not present but when I ran write 63.xo on the machine ( after replacing sugar.graphics.colorbutton with gtk.colorButton in toolbar.py ) , closed it and then again tried to restart the activity from the journal , I was able to see the following preview which I am attaching with this mail, that was what was there on my activity screen before I closed it. Though I am not very much sure, but this should have happened because of the save function in activity.Activity class , here is the link- <a href="http://api.sugarlabs.org/sugar.activity.activity-pysrc.html">http://api.sugarlabs.org/sugar.activity.activity-pysrc.html</a> , which calls the get_preview function of sugar, which is a bit contradictory, if we consider the result of the logs. Am I wrong in the way I am understanding this? Kindly give your comments. Regards, sumit. <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Martin Sevior <<a href="mailto:msevior@gmail.com">msevior@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi Sumit, I just fixed the example code in the pyabiword module of abiword to give an example of how this works. The important line in this example is: i.props.pixbuf = abi.render_page_to_image(1) The converts page number 1 to a GdkPixbuf. Once you have a GdkPixbuf, in this case in a Gtk.Image you can convert it to whatever format you wish. >From the PyGtk reference manual <a href="http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/" target="_blank">http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/</a> you convert this to an image with: <a href="http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/class-gdkpixbuf.html#method-gdkpixbuf--save" target="_blank">http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/class-gdkpixbuf.html#method-gdkpixbuf--save</a> So if you wanted the GdkPixbuf directly you would do: PagePixbuf = abi.render_page_to_image(1) PagePixbuf.save(filename,"png") Where "filename" is the name of the file you wish to store to. Cheers! Martin PS. here is test.py which shows the feature in action (thanks for the patch tomeu!) ---------------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/python import sys import pygtk pygtk.require('2.0') import gtk import abiword window = gtk.Window() window.set_default_size(640, 480) window.connect('delete-event', gtk.main_quit) box = gtk.VBox() window.add(box) box.show() abi = abiword.Canvas() box.add(abi) abi.show() window.show() b = gtk.Button('render page') box.add(b) b.show() i = gtk.Image() box.add(i) i.show() def _clicked_cb(widget, abi, i): i.props.pixbuf = abi.render_page_to_image(1) b.connect('clicked', lambda widget: _clicked_cb(widget, abi, i)) gtk.main() -------------------------------------------- <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:43 PM, sumit singh<<a href="mailto:sumit.coder@gmail.com">sumit.coder@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Can anyone please guide me about the proper use of the get_preview function > of the activity.Activity class of sugar. I had a look at its api, it seems > to be returning a dictionary sort of thing which is called as the png image. > What I want to do is to save this image somewhere in the datastore and show > this image later to the user in my activity. So, what I want to ask is to > how to load this information in the form of an image later on > programatically. Can we load it using the gtk.image widget and what is the > right procedure to save this information. > > Regards, > sumit > </div></div>> _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > > </blockquote></div>