The SnapShot tool saves the selected window or display component into a file. The user may select a window or component by clicking in the text pads. The filename is generated from the selected component and selected file extension, but the user may specify another name in the Save to File text field. Controls View brings up another window showing the currently selected component.
Update updates the current list of windows in the Windows pad.
Format allows the user to select the format of the image file to be written. The JPEG Quality textfield only appears if jpg is selected as the format. Save writes the image file named in the Save to File text field. On some platforms, if an OpenGL application is covered by another window, the resulting image created by SnapShot will only show the uncovered portions of the OpenGL window. On the Solaris platform, capturing an OpenGL window sometimes results in a very faint image.