I thought this might make an interesting read, so the demo stack is included in an article: <http://tactilemedia.com/blog/2016/01/27/i-was-framed-a-resizable-custom-wi ndowshape-in-livecode/>
Hope this works for you. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 1/27/16, 11:55 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Scott Rossi" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of sc...@tactilemedia.com> wrote: >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
