MC 2.3.2 - Crash in import snapshot command

[andu]

Larry_R_Huisingh at rl.gov wrote:

I can take a look at it if you want, send it over.

> 
> Hopefully someone can tell me what is going wrong with my stacks (I have a
> zipped archive (8KB) of the two stacks I can send to whomever is able to
> help me).  I have simplified my stacks down to two stacks.  The first stack,
> "test window.mc" has a single card with a single button.  This button
> attempts to open the stack "level one maps.mc", import a snapshot of the
> only card there and then export a PNG file from that snapshot.  In my
> testing MC always crashes when it tries to do the import snapshot command.
> (The "level one maps" stack is 1024 x 768 so if you try this out you might
> want to make sure your video is set appropriately.)  I have tried this on
> two different machines (one running Windows 98 and the other Windows 2000
> Professional) with the same results.
> 
> I use this script on many other cards in the full version of "level one
> maps" quite successfully but on this card it always crashes.  One difference
> I have found with this card compared to others is that the other cards all
> have imported images from GIF files that have transparent backgrounds.  For
> some reason on this card without any images the import snapshot always
> crashes.
> 
> I can issue the following statements from the message box successfully and
> the snapshot is created but when the script tries to do it MC crashes.
>    put the rect of this cd into thisRect
>    put the windowid of wd "level one maps" into wid
>    import snapshot from rect thisRect of window wid
> 
> I'd appreciate any insight anyone can shed on this problem.  I have tried
> Scott at the MetaCard Bugs address but I imagine that since my license is
> not current he can't afford the time to check it out.
> 
> Larry Huisingh
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