Printing a com.livecode.widget.browser

William de Smet williamdesmet at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 04:31:37 EST 2020


Hi Terry,

Can you use lockscreen?



Greetings

William




Op do 10 dec. 2020 om 10:15 schreef Terence Heaford via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:

> Clearly you can’t print a card that contains a browser widget as livecode
> is unable to do this.
>
> I don’t understand why because Safari can and I believe they are both
> based on webkit.
>
> Anyway I have come up with a semi acceptable workflow that involves.
>
> 1. Exporting a screenshot of the screen with the widget into a variable.
>
> 2. Pasting via script into a LC image object.
>
> 3. Then print the portion of the card containing the image.
>
> The problem is this.
>
> I have both the image and widget on the same card and hide the widget when
> I want to print the image and vice versa when going back to the widget.
>
> There is a noticeable flash when hiding and showing the objects.
>
> I am looking for ideas as to how I can minimise this flash or camouflage
>       it for the user.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Terry
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