Is Snapshot Possible with Two Monitors?

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi,

I think the problem is that you can't take a snapshot from a secondary 
monitor, not that it is complicated to define the area from which Ray 
wants to take a snapshot.

Ray, I just did a test and I was able to use the import snapshot command 
on Windows 8 on a secondary monitor. This is (still) impossible on Mac 
OS X, but apparently it works in Windows 8.

Just execute "import snapshot" without additional parameters and let the 
user select the rectangle.

(This means that my earlier claim that it doesn't work at all was wrong).

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On 6/4/2013 18:04, Mike Bonner wrote:
> Could you overlay a blended (almost transparent) stack over the 2nd monitor
> with handles on the corners so the user can drag them to the area they wish
> to be snapshotted?
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Ray Horsley <ray at linkit.com> wrote:
>
>> Interesting stuff Tom.  I didn't know that about the working screenrects
>> (plural).  This may be very useful in another situation but for this one I
>> need to get the rect from the user.  Any ideas?  (It's too much to import
>> the entire monitor.)
>>
>> On Jun 3, 2013, at 10:26 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
>>
>>> This will also work:
>>>
>>> on mouseUp
>>>      import snapshot from rectangle ( line 2 of the working screenRects)
>>> end mouseUp
>>>
>>>