Creating thumbnail

[Karl Becker]

I know this is unearthing an old topic, but I have a problem with 
creating a thumbnail of a group.

I have a group that's much bigger than the size of my window, and I 
want to make a sort of preview of the entire group's contents similar 
to the Navigator palette in Adobe applications.  I got this nice advice:

On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 02:05 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:

> Do an import snapshot of the grcs you want and then resize the 
> resulting
> image and lock the loc of it to keep it from resizing. You may want to 
> do
> another import snapshot of the newly lockloc 'ed image if you're 
> trying to
> keep the filesize small.

Which I got working just fine.  However, to get it to work I have to 
resize the stack's window size to as big as the group, then take a 
snapshot of the group's rect.  Resizing the stack's window really big 
then moving it back to the original size is extremely distracting, and 
throwing in a "lock screen" command seems to not make anything work at 
all.  Like it doesn't take a picture at all, or if it does, it's not 
the rectangle I want it to take, it's the rectangle before I resized 
the window.

So, how could I import a snapshot of a group without resizing the 
window really big, or at least hiding the window's wacky resizing?

Thanks,
Karl