Hi Brahmanathaswami,
Here's an example.
// button script
on mouseUp
put the selectedRect of fld 1 into myRect
if myRect is not "error" then
import snapshot from rect myRect of this cd
put the long id of it into myImage
// do something with myImage here
end if
end mouseUp
// card or stack script
getProp selectedRect theChunk
try
if theChunk is empty then
put the selectedChunk of the target into myChunk
else
put theChunk into myChunk
end if
put the formattedWidth of the selectedChunk into myWidth
put word 2 of myChunk & comma & word 4 of myChunk into myChars
sort items of myChars numeric
select char (item 1 of myChars) of the target
put the selectedLoc into myRect
select char (item 2 of myChars) of the target
put comma & the selectedLoc after myRect
add the formattedHeight of the selectedChunk to item 4 of myRect
put item 1 of myRect + myWidth into item 3 of myRect
select empty
return myRect
catch myErr
return "error"
end try
end selectedRect
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On 3/27/2015 07:28, Brahmanathaswami wrote:
I'm looking for a way to quickly turn words into graphic objects
programmatically.
If you have a field with the words
"I am that I am"
you can programmatically select each word and highlight it etc. but I
don't think you can get the actual pixel location of the rect that the
hilite takes on the screen... which, theoretically should be doable,
since everything must be drawn on screen, everything has x,y coords and
width and height.
Assuming the rect of a hilited word *could* be extracted, then it would
be easy to take a import a snap shot of it.
an auxiliary question: when using "import snapshot" ... how can you set
the name of the resulting image that is placed on the top of the card.
It defaults to (e.g.) "image id 6578" but one cannot know that ID... is
there another way to refer to the latest created object?
Swasti Astu, Be Well!
Brahmanathaswami
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