This will also work:
on mouseUp
import snapshot from rectangle ( line 2 of the working screenRects)
end mouseUp
-- Tom McGrath III
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On Jun 3, 2013, at 10:22 PM, Thomas McGrath III <[email protected]> wrote:
> You can import snapshots from secondary and tertiary monitors using the
> working screenRects:
>
> on mouseUp
> put line 1 of the working screenRects into tRect
> import snapshot from rectangle tRect
> end mouseUp
>
> on mouseUp
> put line 2 of the working screenRects into tRect
> import snapshot from rectangle tRect
> end mouseUp
>
> on mouseUp
> put line 3 of the working screenRects into tRect
> import snapshot from rectangle tRect
> end mouseUp
>
>
> -- Tom McGrath III
> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
> [email protected]
>
> On Jun 3, 2013, at 5:52 PM, Mark Schonewille
> <[email protected]> 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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>>
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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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