Thanks Mark.  Do you know of a way for me to detect more than one monitor so I 
could warn users?

On Jun 3, 2013, at 5:52 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Hi Ray,
> 
> Snapshots don't work with secondary monitors. You can make snapshots of the 
> main screen only. Perhaps you can use a command line utility instead.
> 
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> On 3 jun 2013, at 23:03, Ray Horsley wrote:
> 
>> I'm running into a variety of issues designing a standalone which will 
>> import PDF's.  If quicktime isn't installed it seems impossible and even if 
>> the user installs it (Windows) it often doesn't work for certain PDF's.
>> 
>> With this in mind I thought I'd let users open their PDF's in whatever 
>> program they choose and use Livecode's import snapshot command.  I don't 
>> pass a rectangle since I don't know where the image is on screen and 
>> unfortunately it seems I can't get the rectangle [the user opens up] 
>> returned to me.  I do, however, get an image imported, although on a system 
>> with two monitors in extended display mode it seems almost random where the 
>> actual snapshot gets taken from.  It's anything but where the user actually 
>> dragged.
>> 
>> Does anybody have any suggestions for grabbing a snapshot of the same 
>> rectangle the user opens up on the desktop or in another application?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Ray Horsley
>> LinkIt! Software
> 
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