Mic, An issue is how to efficiently maintain the association between the text file and its image. The easiest way is probably to just add something, like “-tn” to the name of the text file, for the name of the image. That way you can just test for the existence of file mytextfilename&”-tn” load it and display it wherever you want.
One concern comes to mind, though. If you capture an image of text, then display it at a reduced size, it may quickly become unreadable. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Jan 18, 2020, at 5:17 AM, Michael Kristensen via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the answer, Richmond > > I just want to describe a little more what I want > > I Livecode I want to take a snapshot of part of the screen, and that snapshot > I want to use as thumbnail for the txt file. > > In that way I can see what the txt file represent. > > Does that change anything? > > Mic > >> Subject: Re: Thumbnail on txt file? >> Message-ID: <492a6ff7-7a25-5a4d-bc05-fd79fb1d9...@gmail.com >> <mailto:492a6ff7-7a25-5a4d-bc05-fd79fb1d9...@gmail.com>> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed >> >> Surely that is something that is done by the operating system or its >> desktop/windowing manager and not by LiveCode. >> >>> On 18.01.20 11:26, Michael Kristensen via use-livecode wrote: >>> Hi there >>> >>> Im using a simple txt file for storing data. >>> >>> I want to stick a preview thumbnail onto it when I save it. >>> >>> Can I do that? >>> >>> Mac High Sierra >>> >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Michael >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com <mailto: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 >>> <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 _______________________________________________ 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
