Export Image 16 ColorList Doesn't Work!

[Rick Harrison]

Hi Scott,

I've been working on it some more while waiting
for an answer.  I examined my exported file with
Graphic Converter and found that it does indeed
exist of just 16 colors.

It looks like it is more of a copying issue inside
of LiveCode.  When I import the image into LC
it is still 16 colors, but when I move it to another
image container it reverts back to 256.

Perhaps if the image container I'm moving the
information to had a 256 color image in it first before 
the move of the 16 color image into it, the image 
remains in 256 colors? (This is a guess here, I'll
have to do more research.)

Thanks for helping to check things out for me!

Rick

On Nov 29, 2012, at 1:14 PM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:

> I also tried internal conversion, worked as expected:
> 
> on mouseUp
>  put fld 1 into theList
>  export img 1 to trans as gif with palette theList
>  set text of img 2 to trans
> end mouseUp
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/29/12 10:02 AM, "Scott Rossi" <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Rick:
>> 
>> I just tried a simple test that seemed to work as expected.
>> I created a full spectrum (rainbow) gradient in Photoshop, imported into
>> LC, put a bunch of color values into a field, executed the following:
>> 
>> put fld 1 into theList
>>  put specialFolderPath("desktop") & "/export.gif" into theFilePath
>>  export image 1 to file theFilePath as gif with palette theList
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The field contains a return delimited list of RGB colors:
>> 
>> 255,0,0
>> 255,0,107
>> 227,0,242
>> 95,0,255
>> 7,3,255
>> 0,62,255
>> 0,147,255
>> 0,238,248
>> 0,255,187
>> 0,255,116
>> 7,255,2
>> 96,255,0
>> 225,247,0
>> 255,155,0
>> 255,61,0
>> 
>> Opening the exported image in Photoshop shows a 16 color palette (black
>> was added I supposed because I only defined 15 colors).
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Scott Rossi
>> Creative Director
>> Tactile Media, UX Design
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 11/29/12 9:20 AM, "Rick Harrison" <harrison at all-auctions.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi there,
>>> 
>>> Well I've tried everything I know of with this export thing and
>>> even tried to export to a file with a 16 color palette specified
>>> as follows:
>>> 
>>> export image "Image1" to file "Image2.gif" as gif with palette
>>> VarColorList
>>> 
>>> It always comes out as a 256 color file.  Can someone please
>>> confirm this problem is a bug?
>>> 
>>> If you can think of a work around I'd be most appreciative.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Rick
>>> 
>>> 
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