Creating an auto-updating button icon thumbnail image from card snapshot

[Keith Clarke]

Thanks Mark - that's clear. I'll move my script onto the card, use 'openCard' as its base and provide something to distract the viewer whilst the thumbnails update!
Best,
Keith..

On 1 Apr 2011, at 11:49, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Keith,
> 
> On preOpen... the control or card isn't open yet and you can't get a screenshot of it yet. A stacks or card needs to load completely before you can do such things. A very clear example is e.g. the impossibility to get the dimensions of a player if the movie of that player is being loaded duing a preOpenStack handler and the stack is invisible.
> 
> You might want to load a "please wait" picture first and load your custom image on openCard.
> 
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> 
> Mark Schonewille
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