Call for testing with 6.6.2 RC3

[prothero at earthednet.org]

Jacqueline:
Thanks for responding. I can’t reproduce the problem with my test  
stack, which works fine. My actual application is more complicated,  
and has a fairly large map image. So, I’m wondering if that might be  
the cause and I’ll have to make some tests. RC3 worked initially, but  
began failing intermittently after a few seconds using the app.  
Incidentally, unless I put a “wait 0.1 seconds with messages” before  
the snapshot command, neither 6.6 or 6.6.2RC3 works. I tried the  
try/catch (no errors thrown( and putting the result, which always  
returns a rect of the capture region, it seems.

The code I use for my application is:

on copyMapToSnap
    put the name of me into thisImage
    set the visible of thisImage to FALSE
    wait for 0.1 seconds with messages
    --wait for 1 seconds with messages
    put the rect of this stack into stackRect
    put rectLeft(stackRect)&","&rectTop(stackRect) into theOffset   
--this is the point at the topleft of the stack window
    put the rect of graphic "MapBox" into theRect  --This is relative  
to the stack
    put offsetRect(theRect,theOffset) into snapRect--offset the  
capture rect to absolute screen coordinates
    put adjustSizeOfRect(snapRect,1,1,-1,-1) into snapRect  --remove  
border of grahics box
    --wait for 0.1 seconds with messages
    --wait for 1 seconds --with messages
    --try
       export snapshot from rect  snapRect to image "mapSnap"
    --catch theError
       --answer theError
  -- end try
    put the result
    --wait for 0.1 seconds with messages
    --wait for 1.1 seconds
    put adjustSizeOfRect(theRect,1,1,-1,-1) into snapRect  --theRect  
is relative to the stack
    set the rect of image "mapSnap" to snapRect  --now set the  
captured rect to the mapbox rect
    wait for 0 seconds with messages
    set the visible of thisImage to TRUE
end copyMapToSnap

In the absence of ideas from this list, I’m going to try adding some  
complexity to the test stack and see if I can find what causes the  
failure.

Best,
Bill

Prothero William
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