Karl, While you can only capture screen contents, you can control where it gets pasted by setting the topstack() to invisible or offscreen. This is how I do it for the screen capture utility: Hemtools..
http://www.altuit.com/webs/hemingway/HemTools/HemTools.htm But, if you're capturing content from the topstack(), it's not likely you can move it offscreen before the bitmap is 'pasted' on the card. I was thinking you may be able to set the backpattern of a backdrop to your image, capture it and the bitmap would be pasted offscreen on the topstack, as the backdrop is not in itself a topstack. Kind of a hack, and might not even work. What I did in ButtonGadget (www.buttongadget.com) was to have a 'place' for the imported bitmap to be composited, etc.. Still not the best solution, but one that could work. -Chipp > Chipp wrote: > > Karl, > > > > been down this road before...a couple of times. There is no way of > > doing > > what you want. MC/RR captures from the screen memory..so, you cannot > > put a > > window offscreen and do a capture there -- you'll get nothing. > > > > If you're on Mac, there might be some sort of capture XCMD floating > > around. > > On PC, you'd have to write a DLL. Other idea is to 'feature' the > > capture. Do > > a backdrop, disolve on very fast, capture it to a stack underneath, > > resize > > it and place it, then dissolve off the backdrop. Sounds like you'll be > > doing > > it too many times to really work, though:-( > > > > -Chipp > > > Hmm... shucks. I was thinking what would happen if I simply hid the > stack, I haven't tried that, but it sounds like it won't. Could you > e-mail me a different explanation of the technique you explain in the > second paragraph? I can't quite visualize what's happening there. > > Thanks, > Karl _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard