Is Snapshot Possible with Two Monitors?

[Peter Haworth]

There might be a more elegant way but the screenrects (must use the plural
form) contains one line per monitor connected.

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>


On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Ray Horsley <ray at linkit.com> wrote:

> Thanks Mark.  Do you know of a way for me to detect more than one monitor
> so I could warn users?
>
> On Jun 3, 2013, at 5:52 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
>
> > Hi Ray,
> >
> > Snapshots don't work with secondary monitors. You can make snapshots of
> the main screen only. Perhaps you can use a command line utility instead.
> >
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> > On 3 jun 2013, at 23:03, Ray Horsley wrote:
> >
> >> I'm running into a variety of issues designing a standalone which will
> import PDF's.  If quicktime isn't installed it seems impossible and even if
> the user installs it (Windows) it often doesn't work for certain PDF's.
> >>
> >> With this in mind I thought I'd let users open their PDF's in whatever
> program they choose and use Livecode's import snapshot command.  I don't
> pass a rectangle since I don't know where the image is on screen and
> unfortunately it seems I can't get the rectangle [the user opens up]
> returned to me.  I do, however, get an image imported, although on a system
> with two monitors in extended display mode it seems almost random where the
> actual snapshot gets taken from.  It's anything but where the user actually
> dragged.
> >>
> >> Does anybody have any suggestions for grabbing a snapshot of the same
> rectangle the user opens up on the desktop or in another application?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Ray Horsley
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