Hi! I am not sure if this will work - but u might want to consider cropping the image after taking the screen shot.
Thanks and Regards, Anand Ravi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Mitchener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 2:42 AM Subject: <lingo-l> MIAW image rects > Hello, > > I have an application that runs inside of an MIAW. We allow the user to > resize the window. > > When we transition from one portion of the app to another, there are > often 2 frames worth of mess on screen while things get destroyed, > created, loaded from disk, LDMs are loading, 3D members creating > themselves, etc. > > To make that look pretty, we have a freeze frame script that sits up > around sprite 990 and takes a snapshot of the window and then puts that > on top of everything while the ugly things happen underneath. > > The problem is that the snapshot of the window never changes from > 1024x768, which is the stage size of the movie loaded into that MIAW. > > The code is just doing this pretty much: > > pMe.member.image = gTargetWindow.image > pMe.loc = ...... > > where pMe = sprite(me.spriteNum). > > If I look at the gTargetWindow.rect, it is correct, but > gTargetWindow.image.rect never budges from 1024x768. This seems to be > the case if (within the context of that movie) I set (the stage).rect to > be something else (like gTargetWindow.rect). > > Someone else has suggested that I could set the movie size to be the > largest that we allow the window to be and that that might work .. but > that seems like it'd lead to our app using even more memory and it > already needs to go on a serious diet. > > I've tried putting something like this in our resizeWindow handler: > > (the stage).rect = gTargetWindow.rect > > but, while that doesn't seem to do anything harmful, it also does > nothing beneficial in the way of solving my problem. > gTargetWindow.image.rect remains 1024x768. Setting the movie size at > authoring time does change the value of gTargetWindow.image.rect, but I > can't seem to get that value to change at runtime in response to the > user resizing the window. > > Is there some sort of reasonable way to get this to work? > > Thanks in advance for any help or advice, > > - Bruce > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
