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>From: Phil Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Unsupported clipboard
>Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 18:42:50 +0000
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>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
>
My thanks to Phil Davis for his reply to my query about exporting a
graphics figure (smapshot). Phil's procedure works just fine, however
no matter what file format I use, the document is saved as a Simple
Text document. The document is blank in Simple Text and neither
Canvas or Freehand will open the jpeg or paint saves.
Perhaps I should have mentioned; I am working on a Mac. Is it
possible this is another limitation of the demo application?
Jim
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