Way to print contents of scrolling group?

RGould8 at aol.com RGould8 at aol.com
Thu Aug 12 15:14:51 EDT 2004


Brilliant!   Yes, that sounds like it should work.   Thanks!

In a message dated 8/12/04 12:41:26 PM, janschenkel at yahoo.com writes:


> --- RGould8 at aol.com wrote:
> > I've got a group of objects that are grouped
> > together within a scrolling
> > group object on a card, and I'd like to print the
> > contents of that group, even
> > though it's not all visible on the screen at once? 
> > Is this possible in Rev?  
> > All the parameters for the print command appear to
> > be card and stack-related,
> > not object-related.
> >
> 
> Hava a close look at the 'print' command ; the 'into
> rectangle' form allows you to print something into a
> specific part of the page that will come out of the
> printer.
> 
> Suppose you have a scrolling group that is 600 pixels
> high and 400 pixels wide ; then you could do something
> like :
> --
> set the vScroll of group "Foobar" to 0
> print from the topleft of group "Foobar" to the
> bottomright of group "Foobar" into 0,0,400,300
> set the vScroll of group "Foobar" to 300
> print from the topleft of group "Foobar" to the
> bottomright of group "Foobar" into 0,300,400,600
> --
> 
> You may have to fiddle a bit, bit this should be the
> general way of doing it.
> 
> Hope this helped,
> 
> Jan Schenkel.
> 
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