Hi Matt: I have a method for a resizable masked window that requires LC7 -- I'll try to post something later today or tomorrow. As far as image animation goes, I have a very vague memory that LC used to be able to export animated GIF images, but that may have been static images only. You may indeed need to go with a 3rd party option -- hopefully somebody else has a suggestion for this.
Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 1/27/16, 11:38 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Matt Maier" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of bluebac...@gmail.com> wrote: >I need to be able to easily capture stuff the user is seeing on their >screen so that they can import it into my application without having to >navigate the file manager multiple times. There's some good screen capture >stuff already in Livecode, but what I'm picturing is an actual window with >a hole in it the user can position and leave there so they know what's >going to be captured multiple times. Like gifcam >http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam/ > >There doesn't seem to be a way to set the background of a window to >transparent. There is a way to mask the window using a transparent .png, >but that won't allow the user to resize the window. At the moment the only >mechanism I can come up with is to screencap what's behind the window >every >time the user moves or resizes it and display that in the window so that >it >looks like it's transparent. Is there a better way? > >Also, in addition to capturing still images, I'd like the user to be able >to capture animated images (as an alternative to video). So, that part >would be exactly like gifcam. The only mechanism I've found for that is to >export each frame and then use something external like imagemagik to >stitch >them together into an animation. > >- Matt >_______________________________________________ >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
