Macro will copy the contents of the 3D view to the clipboard

Macro_Copy3DViewToClipboard.FCMacro

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import PySide
from PySide.QtGui import *
from PySide import QtGui ,QtCore
from PySide import QtOpenGL
#from gimpfu import *
 
__title__   = "Macro_Copy3DViewToClipboard"
__author__  = "Mario52"
__url__     = "http://www.freecadweb.org/index-fr.html"
__version__ = "00.01"
__date__    = "14/09/2016"
           
class ViewObserver:
    print "run FCGrab .."
 
    def logPosition(self, info):
        import tempfile
        import os
        from PySide import QtGui
 
        pos = info["Key"]
        if pos.upper() == "G":
            pos = ""
           
            mw=Gui.getMainWindow()
            gl=mw.findChildren(QtOpenGL.QGLWidget)
            glw=gl[0] # just use the first element
 
            originalsize = glw.size()                               # originalsize SubWindow
            print "originalsize : ",originalsize.width(),", ", originalsize.height()
 
            glw.resize(640, 480)                                    # reduce the SubWindow
            glw.show()
            Gui.SendMsgToActiveView("ViewFit")
            print "resize in : ",glw.frameGeometry().width()," ",glw.frameGeometry().height()
 
            i=glw.grabFrameBuffer()
            cb=QtGui.qApp.clipboard()
            cb.setImage(i)
            glw.resize(originalsize.width(), originalsize.height()) # restore originalsize SubWindow
            print "Grab"
 
        if (pos.upper() == "Q"):
            v.removeEventCallback("SoKeyboardEvent",c)
            print "End FCGrab"
 
 
v=Gui.activeDocument().activeView()
o = ViewObserver()
c = v.addEventCallback("SoKeyboardEvent",o.logPosition)

This macro utility is intended for the use of the program FreeCAD http://www.freecadweb.org/
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