Thumbnail on txt file?

[prothero at earthlearningsolutions.org]

Mic,
My response assumed you will display the thumbnail in a livecode application and that you are not trying to change the icon of the text file for viewing on the desktop.
Bill

William Prothero
http://es.earthednet.org

> On Jan 18, 2020, at 7:58 AM, "prothero at earthlearningsolutions.org" <prothero at earthlearningsolutions.org> wrote:
> 
> Mic,
> An issue is how to efficiently maintain the association between the text file and its image. The easiest way is probably to just add something, like “-tn” to the name of the text file, for the name of the image. That way you can just test for the existence of file mytextfilename&”-tn” load it and display it wherever you want. 
> 
> One concern comes to mind, though. If you capture an image of text, then display it at a reduced size, it may quickly become unreadable.
> 
> Bill
> 
> William Prothero
> http://es.earthednet.org
> 
>> On Jan 18, 2020, at 5:17 AM, Michael Kristensen via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for the answer, Richmond
>> 
>> I just want to describe a little more what I want
>> 
>> I Livecode I want to take a snapshot of part of the screen, and that snapshot I want to use as thumbnail for the txt file.
>> 
>> In that way I can see what the txt file represent.
>> 
>> Does that change anything?
>> 
>> Mic
>> 
>>> Subject: Re: Thumbnail on txt file?
>>> Message-ID: <492a6ff7-7a25-5a4d-bc05-fd79fb1d9a92 at gmail.com <mailto:492a6ff7-7a25-5a4d-bc05-fd79fb1d9a92 at gmail.com>>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
>>> 
>>> Surely that is something that is done by the operating system or its 
>>> desktop/windowing manager and not by LiveCode.
>>> 
>>>> On 18.01.20 11:26, Michael Kristensen via use-livecode wrote:
>>>> Hi there
>>>> 
>>>> Im using a simple txt file for storing data.
>>>> 
>>>> I want to stick a preview thumbnail onto it when I save it.
>>>> 
>>>> Can I do that?
>>>> 
>>>> Mac High Sierra
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> 
>>>> Michael
>>>> 
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