Screencapture with OpenGL

[crazyfuturamanoob]

How to get screen capture with OpenGL and save into an existing texture on the fly?

I tried this:



GLuint ScreenCapture( )
{
GLuint texture;

glReadPixels( 0, 0, SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_INT, &texture );

return texture;
}

Result: Freezes for a couple seconds before Segmentation Fault.

Oh yes, and language is C again.

[skullmunky]

texture should be a malloc'd array big enough to store the image. You have two errors - first, your variable is just one int, so when glReadPixels tries to write about a few hundred thousand bytes into that location it writes far beyond the limits of what you've allocated, which, well, is a segmentation fault.

Also declaring it as a local variable like that will kill it anyway. You probably want something vaguely like



GLuint *texture = (GLuint*) malloc (SCREEN_WIDTH * SCREEN_HEIGHT * 3);

glReadPixels( 0, 0, SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_INT, texture );

return texture;