Thanks Mark. Do you know of a way for me to detect more than one monitor so I could warn users?
On Jun 3, 2013, at 5:52 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi Ray, > > Snapshots don't work with secondary monitors. You can make snapshots of the > main screen only. Perhaps you can use a command line utility instead. > > -- > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille > > Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering > Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer > KvK: 50277553 > > Use Color Converter to convert CMYK, RGB, RAL, XYZ, H.Lab and other colour > spaces. http://www.color-converter.com > > We have time for new software development projects. Contact me for a quote. > > > > > > > On 3 jun 2013, at 23:03, Ray Horsley wrote: > >> I'm running into a variety of issues designing a standalone which will >> import PDF's. If quicktime isn't installed it seems impossible and even if >> the user installs it (Windows) it often doesn't work for certain PDF's. >> >> With this in mind I thought I'd let users open their PDF's in whatever >> program they choose and use Livecode's import snapshot command. I don't >> pass a rectangle since I don't know where the image is on screen and >> unfortunately it seems I can't get the rectangle [the user opens up] >> returned to me. I do, however, get an image imported, although on a system >> with two monitors in extended display mode it seems almost random where the >> actual snapshot gets taken from. It's anything but where the user actually >> dragged. >> >> Does anybody have any suggestions for grabbing a snapshot of the same >> rectangle the user opens up on the desktop or in another application? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Ray Horsley >> LinkIt! Software > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
