Mic, My response assumed you will display the thumbnail in a livecode application and that you are not trying to change the icon of the text file for viewing on the desktop. Bill
William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Jan 18, 2020, at 7:58 AM, "proth...@earthlearningsolutions.org" > <proth...@earthlearningsolutions.org> wrote: > > 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