Thanks Mark - that's clear. I'll move my script onto the card, use 'openCard' 
as its base and provide something to distract the viewer whilst the thumbnails 
update!
Best,
Keith..

On 1 Apr 2011, at 11:49, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Keith,
> 
> On preOpen... the control or card isn't open yet and you can't get a 
> screenshot of it yet. A stacks or card needs to load completely before you 
> can do such things. A very clear example is e.g. the impossibility to get the 
> dimensions of a player if the movie of that player is being loaded duing a 
> preOpenStack handler and the stack is invisible.
> 
> You might want to load a "please wait" picture first and load your custom 
> image on openCard.
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> 
> Mark Schonewille
> 
> Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
> Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com
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