Export snapshot question...

[J. Landman Gay]

On 11/7/2015 10:59 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote:
>
>> On Nov 7, 2015, at 4:46 PM, Paul Dupuis <paul at researchware.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/7/2015 1:46 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote:
>>> Yes this is the expected behaviour. Export snapshot from rect is
>>> not be able to take a snapshot of something "off-screen” because
>>> it’s not rendered by the display.
>>>
>>> Export snapshot from rect uses the device's display output to
>>> render the image, but if you use Export snapshot of an object
>>> (stack, card, group etc.), then the LC engine renders the image,
>>> so you can take a snapshot of a stack that is off-screen this
>>> way. I hope that makes sense!
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> My problem is that I am using a custom external that places
>> content generated by the external in to the stack window (via the
>> windowID of the stack that I pass to the external). If I do export
>> snapshot of stack xxx, the content placed in the stack window by
>> the external is not recognized and included in the resulting
>> image.
>>
>> We may have to have the external modified to return an optional
>> image that we can place on a stack for printing.
>
> That does sound like a more complex problem. Modifying the external
> sounds like the best option, unless anybody else has any tricks.

I wonder if it would be possible to pass the window ID of a hidden stack?

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