Export Snapshot

[Graham Samuel]

Hi Mark

Thanks for the reply. If I don't want to invoke the filing system (and I don't), then how can I make a new image out of my exported rect? A variable isn't an image, after all - and yet the snapshot is nothing but a bitmap really. I know there are other ways of creating images extracted from existing displays (I'm using one of them quite successfully) but export snapshot seems so neat.

As I am clearly in a more than usually stupid phase (or the machinery is running down faster than usual), can you explain how I can make an image out of my snapshot without creating an intermediate file, and while you're at it, explain what use is a snapshot when it's locked up in a variable.

TIA

Graham


On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 22:02:04 +0200, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:

> Hi Graham,
> 
> You can export to a file or variable, not to a control.
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> On 21 sep 2012, at 21:58, Graham Samuel wrote:
> 
>> The following give a compiler error (bad image or image type expression) but I can't see why:
>> 
>> export snapshot from rect theRect of img "C25"  to img "targetImage" as JPG
>> 
>> I suppose it's obvious, but I can't work out from the LiveCode dictionary what I've done wrong. Anybody?
>> 
>> TIA
>> 
>> Graham
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