Hi Scott, I've been working on it some more while waiting for an answer. I examined my exported file with Graphic Converter and found that it does indeed exist of just 16 colors.
It looks like it is more of a copying issue inside of LiveCode. When I import the image into LC it is still 16 colors, but when I move it to another image container it reverts back to 256. Perhaps if the image container I'm moving the information to had a 256 color image in it first before the move of the 16 color image into it, the image remains in 256 colors? (This is a guess here, I'll have to do more research.) Thanks for helping to check things out for me! Rick On Nov 29, 2012, at 1:14 PM, Scott Rossi <sc...@tactilemedia.com> wrote: > I also tried internal conversion, worked as expected: > > on mouseUp > put fld 1 into theList > export img 1 to trans as gif with palette theList > set text of img 2 to trans > end mouseUp > > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, UX Design > > > > > On 11/29/12 10:02 AM, "Scott Rossi" <sc...@tactilemedia.com> wrote: > >> Hi Rick: >> >> I just tried a simple test that seemed to work as expected. >> I created a full spectrum (rainbow) gradient in Photoshop, imported into >> LC, put a bunch of color values into a field, executed the following: >> >> put fld 1 into theList >> put specialFolderPath("desktop") & "/export.gif" into theFilePath >> export image 1 to file theFilePath as gif with palette theList >> >> >> >> The field contains a return delimited list of RGB colors: >> >> 255,0,0 >> 255,0,107 >> 227,0,242 >> 95,0,255 >> 7,3,255 >> 0,62,255 >> 0,147,255 >> 0,238,248 >> 0,255,187 >> 0,255,116 >> 7,255,2 >> 96,255,0 >> 225,247,0 >> 255,155,0 >> 255,61,0 >> >> Opening the exported image in Photoshop shows a 16 color palette (black >> was added I supposed because I only defined 15 colors). >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Scott Rossi >> Creative Director >> Tactile Media, UX Design >> >> >> >> >> On 11/29/12 9:20 AM, "Rick Harrison" <harri...@all-auctions.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> Well I've tried everything I know of with this export thing and >>> even tried to export to a file with a 16 color palette specified >>> as follows: >>> >>> export image "Image1" to file "Image2.gif" as gif with palette >>> VarColorList >>> >>> It always comes out as a 256 color file. Can someone please >>> confirm this problem is a bug? >>> >>> If you can think of a work around I'd be most appreciative. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Rick >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode __________________________________ Rick Harrison You can buy my $10 music album "Funny Time Machine" digital CD on the iTunes Store Now! To visit the iTunes Store now to listen to samples of my CD please click on the following link. (Please note you must have iTunes installed on your computer for this link to work.) http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=213668290 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode