Creating thumbnail

[Chipp Walters]

Karl,

been down this road before...a couple of times. There is no way of doing
what you want. MC/RR captures from the screen memory..so, you cannot put a
window offscreen and do a capture there -- you'll get nothing.

If you're on Mac, there might be some sort of capture XCMD floating around.
On PC, you'd have to write a DLL. Other idea is to 'feature' the capture. Do
a backdrop, disolve on very fast, capture it to a stack underneath, resize
it and place it, then dissolve off the backdrop. Sounds like you'll be doing
it too many times to really work, though:-(

-Chipp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Karl Becker
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 10:09 PM
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Creating thumbnail
>
>
> 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
>
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