import snapshot question (Scott?)

Richard Gaskin ambassador at FourthWorld.com
Sun Jun 16 08:38:01 EDT 2002


Chipp Walters wrote:

> I'm using the import snapshot command on winXP and find that it often
> executes before a screen redraw. Typically, I move my stack out of the way
> (set loc of this stack to -1000,-1000), or hide it, then do an import
> snapshot and often don't get the redraw underneath the stack (especially if
> I'm trying to caputure a view of a browser). I can even send another message
> to execute the import snapshot in 2 seconds and it still doesn't capture the
> browser. Any suggestions and/or ideas?

A brief "wait" usually allows just enough time to the OS to complete a
redraw.

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