export jpeg frustration

[Chris Carroll-Davis]

Eric -

Thanks so much!  I'm pleased I wasn't doing something daft.  Your 
function does the trick beautifully.

Regards,

Chris


On 13 Apr 2005, at 12:10, Eric Chatonet wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> The export snapshot from rect of window windowID to file... does not 
> appear very reliable.
> So convert the rect of your object to global coordinates and use 
> export snapshot from rect to file... instead :-)
>
> function GlobalObjRect pRect
>   return item 1 of pRect + the left of this stack,item 2 of pRect + 
> the top of this stack,item 3 of pRect + the left of this stack,item 4 
> of pRect + the top of this stack
> end GlobalObjRect
>
> Best regards,
>
> Le 13 avr. 05, à 13:01, Chris Carroll-Davis a écrit :
>
>> Hello folks.
>>
>> Can anyone shed any light on this?  I'm having problems with the 
>> export syntax.  I am trying to export an area of a window...
>>
>> The snippet below works fine, happily creating a jpeg in the default 
>> folder, but using screen coords (which I don't want)
>>
>>        put the ticks & "temp.jpg" into tFile
>>        put the rect of graphic "PFrame" into pRect
>>        put the id of this wd into WinId
>>
>>        put prect && winId && defaultfolder && tFile
>>
>>        export snapshot from rect pRect to file tFile as JPEG
>>
>>
>>
>> But if (as below) I add the window parameter to use window-relative 
>> coords, it doesn't work.  Instead, I get the error:  "export: no 
>> image selected, or image not open".  It's as if it is suddenly 
>> ignoring the "snapshot" form of export.
>>
>>        put the ticks & "temp.jpg" into tFile
>>        put the rect of graphic "PFrame" into pRect
>>        put the id of this wd into WinId
>>        put prect && winId && defaultfolder && tFile
>>        export snapshot from rect pRect of window WinId to file tFile 
>> as JPEG
>
> Eric Chatonet.
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