Export & LC8 & Browser widget

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2016-03-02 08:36, Terence Heaford wrote:
> This suggestion doesn’t work because the widget is a Browser widget
> and I believe the browser is not a true object
> but a window overlay.

Not exactly - the browser widget is a true engine object, but it uses a 
'native' layer to display itself. At present native layers do stack 
above the card layer (which also renders into a native layer, just with 
drawing code the engine has complete control over) but we would like to 
make them interleave as you would generally expect at some point 
(there's just a fair bit of engineering to do to get that to work!). 
(Note that there is a well defined ordering for layers used by native 
layer using objects - the layering follows the same layering as the 
objects on the card, its just that all non-native objects will stack 
first, then all native objects).

Whether or not you can actually get the pixels directly out of a native 
layer depends entirely on what 'kind' the native layer is and whether 
the platform lets you do that kind of thing.

See my other post for more details.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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