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

[Keith Clarke]

I tried 'import' first purely because I wanted to bring the snapshot of the unopened card into the 'home' card rather than export to file, etc.

There are some notes in the dictionary about setting the absolute rectangle coordinates depending on the target object - it didn't work until I defined the 0.0.1024,768 parameters. I can't claim to have understood - I just fiddled around with all the options - process of elimination.

The good news is that my hack seems to have survived the test deployment out to a revlet. An online product demonstration presentation with (so far one) live thumbnail updates on the home page - not too shabby!

I'm getting to like this LiveCode thing and almost enjoying coding - it's all rather worrying! ;-)
Best,
Keith..

On 1 Apr 2011, at 19:42, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> 
> I see Keith is using it too, so I guess it does work. I couldn't get it to do that. I'm not sure what was different about my stack, but trying to get a snapshot of the non-current card did nothing.
> 
> I see Keith is using "import snapshot" and specifying a card. That isn't in the docs and I always got an error when I tried to specify an object with "import", I could only specify one with "export".