Re: Snapshot problems

2009-11-20 Thread Howard Bornstein
Thanks Scott! This does work. I sure wish I could wrap my head around *why* it works however. Regards, Howard Bornstein --- www.designeq.com On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.comwrote: Recently, Howard Bornstein wrote: I am trying to do a

Re: Snapshot problems

2009-11-20 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Howard Bornstein wrote: This does work. I sure wish I could wrap my head around *why* it works however. When it comes to snapshots, you can think of a group as a sheet of glass -- all objects on the glass will be captured in your photograph, but the glass (group) itself won't. In

Re: Snapshot problems

2009-11-13 Thread Howard Bornstein
I am trying to do a similar thing. In my case I have some content in a group that is larger than the group rectangle, so it scrolls within the group. However, I'd like to be able to take a snapshot of the entire group contents, even the parts that extend beyond the rectangle (and can only be seen

Re: Snapshot problems

2009-11-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Howard Bornstein wrote: I am trying to do a similar thing. In my case I have some content in a group that is larger than the group rectangle, so it scrolls within the group. However, I'd like to be able to take a snapshot of the entire group contents, even the parts that extend beyond the

Re: Snapshot problems

2009-11-13 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Howard Bornstein wrote: I am trying to do a similar thing. In my case I have some content in a group that is larger than the group rectangle, so it scrolls within the group. However, I'd like to be able to take a snapshot of the entire group contents, even the parts that extend

Re: Snapshot problems

2009-09-20 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks to all who replied. I think my immediate problem was trying to get stuff from a rectangle that extended beyond the actual rendered area, as Richard mentions: this causes an 'Execution Error' with no further detail, so it's hard to know what has gone wrong - but finger trouble,

Re: Snapshot problems

2009-09-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
Graham Samuel wrote: However Richard your other point: The rect option can be useful at times, but since v2.7 we've had a much easier and more robust method of exporting images of objects by specifying the object itself rather than a rect: import snapshot from img MyImage The object

Snapshot problems

2009-09-19 Thread Graham Samuel
I suppose it's just finger trouble, but I'm having great difficulty using import snapshot and export snapshot - the RunRev docs seem not to be completely specific on this. For example, while apparently I can take a snapshot of something that isn't open and isn't visible (the docs say so!),

Re: Snapshot problems

2009-09-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Graham Samuel wrote: I suppose it's just finger trouble, but I'm having great difficulty using import snapshot and export snapshot - the RunRev docs seem not to be completely specific on this. For example, while apparently I can take a snapshot of something that isn't open and isn't visible

Re: Snapshot problems

2009-09-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
I forgot to mention another cool feature of using import snapshot from object: because it uses the engine's native object rendering scheme rather than merely clipping the display buffer, it renders with transparent areas as transparent. For example, if you import a snapshot of a group of

Re: Snapshot problems

2009-09-19 Thread dunbarx
Can you lock the screen, place the stack back inside, take the snapshot, and then put the stack outside again? Craig Newman On Sep 19, 2009, at 2:57:09 PM, Graham Samuel livf...@mac.com wrote: From: Graham Samuel livf...@mac.com Subject:Snapshot problems Date: September 19, 2009 2:57:09