Problem with importing snapshot

[Richard Gaskin]

Charles Szasz wrote:
 > Jim,
 >
 > Thanks for your comments.  I did use my variable, myImage but
 > I accidentally  omitted it. Here is my actual script:
 >
 > export snapshot from group id 126899 of card "graph" to myImage as PNG
 > set the clipBoardData["image"] to myImage
 >
 > go stack "report"
 >
 > put myImage into image id 1033 of card "page1" of stack "report"
 >
 >
 > The stack "report" is a substack of my app and is used for printing.
 > The code is in my print button of my main stack. The above code works
 > but as I mentioned it strips out the text in the image.

Is the backgroundBehavior of the group set to true?  If it is, I suspect 
the problem is that the text of the field is stored with the card record 
rather than the field itself, so when using the "from <obj>" form of 
"export" it renders the object records, and unfortunately isn't taking 
other objects like the card into account.

I could consider this a bug, and if you have time to submit a simple 
example stack to illustrate the problem I'd guess it wouldn't be hard 
for them to fix; I believe they've already addressed other bugs related 
to the storage of the field contents in background (copy, maybe?  I 
don't recall which ones).

As a workaround, I wonder if you could copy the group to an offscreen 
stack, set the backroundBehavior to false, and then run the export on 
that copy?

Please let me know if that works, and if not some other workaround is 
likely possible.

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