Re: Importing a Snapshot from a window off screen

2015-09-18 Thread Ray
Good point Richard. I had tried importing from the stack which didn't work so I [wrongly] assumed it also would not work from the card. But it does! That's even easier. On 9/18/15 3:21 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Ray wrote: Paul - once again thanks for this insight. I'd thought I'd let you k

Re: Importing a Snapshot from a window off screen

2015-09-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ray wrote: Paul - once again thanks for this insight. I'd thought I'd let you know the following script which groups everything on the card, gets a snapshot /of the group/, and then ungroups everything, is working well. on importGroupSnapshot snapName,myRect repeat with C=1 to number of con

Re: Importing a Snapshot from a window off screen

2015-09-18 Thread Ray
Paul - once again thanks for this insight. I'd thought I'd let you know the following script which groups everything on the card, gets a snapshot /of the group/, and then ungroups everything, is working well. on importGroupSnapshot snapName,myRect repeat with C=1 to number of controls

Re: Importing a Snapshot from a window off screen

2015-09-18 Thread Ray
Ah haaa! so that's what's going on. I'll give it a try. Many thanks! On 9/18/15 11:37 AM, Paul Hibbert wrote: Ray, Importing a snapshot from rect uses the computer’s graphic card to generate the snapshot image, whereas, importing a snapshot from an object (group, card, stack etc.) allows t

Re: Importing a Snapshot from a window off screen

2015-09-18 Thread Paul Hibbert
Ray, Importing a snapshot from rect uses the computer’s graphic card to generate the snapshot image, whereas, importing a snapshot from an object (group, card, stack etc.) allows the LC engine to generate the snapshot image. I’m travelling right now so can’t test so easy, but I’m sure if you ca

Importing a Snapshot from a window off screen

2015-09-18 Thread Ray
Greetings - Has anybody had any success importing a snapshot from a stack's window which is offscreen? I'm looping through every card in a stack to import a snapshot using something like: import snapshot from rect myRect of window myWinId This causes a lot of annoying screen flicker so I'