> On Nov 7, 2015, at 4:46 PM, Paul Dupuis <p...@researchware.com> wrote: > > On 11/7/2015 1:46 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote: >> Yes this is the expected behaviour. Export snapshot from rect is not be able >> to take a snapshot of something "off-screen” because it’s not rendered by >> the display. >> >> Export snapshot from rect uses the device's display output to render the >> image, but if you use Export snapshot of an object (stack, card, group >> etc.), then the LC engine renders the image, so you can take a snapshot of a >> stack that is off-screen this way. I hope that makes sense! > > Thank you. > > My problem is that I am using a custom external that places content > generated by the external in to the stack window (via the windowID of > the stack that I pass to the external). If I do export snapshot of stack > xxx, the content placed in the stack window by the external is not > recognized and included in the resulting image. > > We may have to have the external modified to return an optional image > that we can place on a stack for printing.
That does sound like a more complex problem. Modifying the external sounds like the best option, unless anybody else has any tricks. Paul _______________________________________________ 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
