I see that now. I hadn't read the whole thread when I answered. On March 27, 2015 9:27:00 AM CDT, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: >Hi, > >That's what I did in the solution I posted. I made it a long time ago >and now I don't remember why I didn't use the formattedRect. It would >probably be easier to use the formattedRect. > >-- >Best regards, > >Mark Schonewille > >Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering >Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com >Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer >KvK: 50277553 > >Installer Maker for LiveCode: >http://qery.us/468 > >Buy my new book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner" >http://qery.us/3fi > >LiveCode on Facebook: >https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ > >On 3/27/2015 15:16, J. Landman Gay wrote: >> The selectedLoc will give you the pixel location of the selection. >Then you can use the formattedwidth and formattedheight to calculate >the rectangle for the snapshot. When the snapshot is made, the variable >"it" will contain the long ID of the new image. So immediately after >making the snapshot, "set the name of it to myname". >> >> >> On March 27, 2015 1:28:46 AM CDT, Brahmanathaswami <bra...@hindu.org> >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 >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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
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