Printing in LiveCode

[cbeethjr]

Hey guys, complete beginner here,

I am attempting to have a way for the user to select a certain image that will be displayed on one card, then it will put it into another image field on a different card, and have the option to print the image from there. I tried at "put image into..." but it wouldn't work. Also, I have been searching online for a way to print the image but I haven't found anything that works yet.

Thanks so much!
Clanton

[richmond62]

I just tried this (LC 8.1.3, Mac OS):

set the imageData of img "PicBOX" to the imageData of img id 1003

but got a very odd result indeed:

Not really what you want . . . sorry.

[Klaus]

Hi Richmond,

setting the imagedata of one image to another one REQUIRES to have both images the same dimension (height and width)!


Best

Klaus

[Klaus]

Hi Clandon,

1. welcome to the forum!

2.

I am attempting to have a way for the user to select a certain image that will be displayed on one card, then it will put it into another image field on a different card, and have the option to print the image from there. I tried at "put image into..." but it wouldn't work. Also, I have been searching online for a way to print the image but I haven't found anything that works yet.

what exactly do you have problems with?
Let the user select an image file?
"Putting" that user selected image into another image object?
Printing the "other" card with the image?
All of the three?


Best

Klaus

[richmond62]

Frankly I'd just use a graphic object and do this sort of thing:

set the backGroundPattern of graphic "picFRAME" to the id of image "SugataMitra" and be done with it:

[Klaus]

Frankly I'd just use a graphic object and do this sort of thing:
set the backGroundPattern of graphic "picFRAME" to the id of image "SugataMitra"...

Which also requires that the the image and graphic object have identical dimensions to prevent
the display of the "tiles" that setting a backgroundpattern will produce.

[richmond62]

Which also requires that the the image and graphic object have identical dimensions

That's true, but one can resize the graphic either before or after the backGroundPattern is set and the image is OK,
while setting imageData doesn't seem to work that way.

Pictorial Stuff.livecode.zip

Here's the stack.

(210.12 KiB) Downloaded 204 times

All this done with LC 8.1.3 on Mac OS 10.7.5: your mileage may vary

[Klaus]

That's true, but one can resize the graphic either before or after the backGroundPattern is set and the image is OK,
while setting imageData doesn't seem to work that way.

I have never said the opposite

[richmond62]

@Klaus

[Klaus]

Sorry, no capisce!?

[richmond62]

German preciseness.

[Klaus]

Sure, but I mean the image itself and the "at 4%"!

[richmond62]

The 4% is the strength of the beer.

My older son who stays in Munchen and prides himself on his Bayerische
can keep everyone quiet for at least 60 minutes with rude comments about Becks.

All I was doing was trying to find a picture, Klaus, that mentioned German Precision.

[Klaus]

Ah, OK, get it now!

But I did not recognize anything in the picture but the text!

[jacque]

German aside, what the OP wants is:

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set the text of img x of cd 2 to the text of img y of cd 1

The quickest way to print is to use "print this card" but that isn't usually what you want. Most of the time you'd want to add the pixel dimensions as parameters. See the dictionary "print card" entry. You might want to use this syntax:

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print card [from topLeft to rightBottom]