Hi Ray, Snapshots don't work with secondary monitors. You can make snapshots of the main screen only. Perhaps you can use a command line utility instead.
-- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Use Color Converter to convert CMYK, RGB, RAL, XYZ, H.Lab and other colour spaces. http://www.color-converter.com We have time for new software development projects. Contact me for a quote. On 3 jun 2013, at 23:03, Ray Horsley wrote: > I'm running into a variety of issues designing a standalone which will import > PDF's. If quicktime isn't installed it seems impossible and even if the user > installs it (Windows) it often doesn't work for certain PDF's. > > With this in mind I thought I'd let users open their PDF's in whatever > program they choose and use Livecode's import snapshot command. I don't pass > a rectangle since I don't know where the image is on screen and unfortunately > it seems I can't get the rectangle [the user opens up] returned to me. I do, > however, get an image imported, although on a system with two monitors in > extended display mode it seems almost random where the actual snapshot gets > taken from. It's anything but where the user actually dragged. > > Does anybody have any suggestions for grabbing a snapshot of the same > rectangle the user opens up on the desktop or in another application? > > Thanks, > > Ray Horsley > LinkIt! Software _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
