Many thanks for the insights on image opacity. Here's another image problem I've encountered. Using MC 2.5 on Mac OSX 10.4.
I want to be able to copy part or all of an image to the clipboard. An image is visible in stack "LBROW". A handler catches mouse action on that image, and if the user drags out a rectangle a translucent graphic "pickRect" is created to designate that sub-area of the image. The script below is supposed to (1) load the entire image to the clipboard if the user has not created a "pickRect" graphic; and (2) load that sub-area of the image if the user has created a "pickRect" graphic. Case (1) works as expected. Case (2) does not; some blank image seems to be loaded to the clipboard instead. But why? When debugging this script, it is evident that the import snapshot statement is indeed creating a new image of the correct subarea. Why doesn't "set the clipboardData["image"] work on it? Another puzzle: when debugging, MC 2.5 gives me an "execution error" when it gets to the end of the handler. on copyImage if there is not a graphic "pickRect" of stack "LBROW" then set the clipboardData["image"] to image 1 of group "pdfGroup" of stack "LBROW" else set the defaultStack to "LBROW" put shiftedRect(the rect of graphic "pickRect",the topLeft of stack "LBROW") into r delete graphic "pickRect" import snapshot from rect r set the clipboardData["image"] to last image delete last image end if choose browse tool end copyImage function shiftedRect r,s -- used to convert to screen coordinates the coordinates of rect r in a stack whose topLeft is at s -- eg for use in import snapshot repeat with i = 1 to 4 add item (1 + (i+1) mod 2) of s to item i of r end repeat return r end shiftedRect Any insights about this would be greatly appreciated. David Epstein _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
