Hi Jim,
To save something drawn on a card:
A. CREATE A SNAPSHOT OF THE DESIRED AREA.
1) Select the File-> Import menu item. This opens the "Importer" stack.
2) Select the "Snapshot" tab. This puts MC into a mode where it will create a
mirror-image copy of the area you select (see next step).
3) Select the area you want to copy.
a) If you want only a part of the current card area,
hold the mouseButton down and drag across the desired area.
When you've enclosed the desired area in a rectangle, release
the mouseButton.
b) If you want the entire card image, just click the card anywhere.
4) The copy of your selected area will immediately appear in the center of the
current card. It will be a new image that contains only the area you selected.
(This ends the Import process. The "Importer" stack closes itself when
finished.)
B. EXPORT THE SNAPSHOT TO A FILE.
5) Open the message box.
6) Click the new image to select it.
7) In the message box, type one of these lines:
export jpeg to file "newfile.jpg"
export png to file "newfile.jpg"
export paint to file "newfile.jpg"
and hit "Enter".
8) Look in the directory where your MC Home stack resides. You should find
"newfile.jpg" sitting there too. (If MC's setting for "the directory" was
changed by you or a script, look in that directory. You can type "answer the
directory" in the message box to see what the current directory is.)
(This ends the "Export" process.)
It ought to be easier, but at least it's doable.
HTH.
Phil Davis
Jim Hurley wrote:
>
> I am considering the purchase of Meta Card but am concerned about my ability
> to use it to generate graphs from scripted equations and export them to a
> graphics program. In Hyper Card I can copy and past any drawn graphic. Not so
> in Meta Card. On the Meta Card web site I read the following:
>
> "Cut/Copy/Paste support is currently limited to text. The inability to use the
> system clipboard to transfer image data may seem to be an inconvenience but is
> not actually a problem in practice: bitmap data passed via the clipboard is
> uncompressed and so is in an inappropriate format for inclusion in a stack
> anyway (developers should import PNG, GIF, or JPEG format images instead so
> that they can take advantage of the superior compression controls available in
> specialized image editing tools). PICT data passed on the clipboard could not
> be viewed on UNIX or Windows systems because they do not provide support for
> PICT like MacOS does. PICT data is therefore also unsuitable for cross
> platform development and so the inability to cut/copy/paste it is not a
> significant limitation."
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears to say, Copy into the clipboard is not
> supported but it is not a limitation because it can't be done across
> platforms.
>
> Of course it is a serious limitation for me. Is there no way to export screen
> graphics to other programs?
>
> P.S. I can't find a way to put scripts into the background(s).
> --
> Jim Hurley
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