Thanks for the comments. As I am using a Browser to display amCharts it would be good to be able to print the contents of the Browser.
This workaround of snapshot gives a poor printout when it is copied to an image for printing. Would there be a better way to achieve this? I understand the need to create widgets to showcase what can be achieved with LC8 but I am thinking it is counter productive to include widgets that are not completed, particularly when LC8 is released. The Browser is a good example in that without printing functionality, it’s not useless but is severely limited. All the best Terry > On 2 Mar 2016, at 08:34, Mark Waddingham <m...@livecode.com> wrote: > > On 2016-03-02 08:36, Terence Heaford wrote: >> This suggestion doesn’t work because the widget is a Browser widget >> and I believe the browser is not a true object >> but a window overlay. > > Not exactly - the browser widget is a true engine object, but it uses a > 'native' layer to display itself. At present native layers do stack above the > card layer (which also renders into a native layer, just with drawing code > the engine has complete control over) but we would like to make them > interleave as you would generally expect at some point (there's just a fair > bit of engineering to do to get that to work!). (Note that there is a well > defined ordering for layers used by native layer using objects - the layering > follows the same layering as the objects on the card, its just that all > non-native objects will stack first, then all native objects). > > Whether or not you can actually get the pixels directly out of a native layer > depends entirely on what 'kind' the native layer is and whether the platform > lets you do that kind of thing. > > See my other post for more details. > > Warmest Regards, > > Mark. > > -- > Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ > LiveCode: Everyone can create apps > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
