Snapshot as Gif

[hrcap]

Good Afternoon All

I have been building my app on a Mac and until today have only built the solution for use on a Mac. Today I tried building my App for windows and was very impressed with the performance.

I have however discovered an issue and I can't work out why it is happening, does anybody have any extra info on this....

I have a step which imports a large picture, reduces the size of the picture and then takes a screenshot of the reduced size picture (to allow me to store it and take up less space in my database).

On Mac I use the step:

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export snapshot from image g_name_holder_image to image g_name_holder_image as gif

which works fine...

when I use this step on Windows it saves the picture with blurred lines across it (please see attached pic for example).



if I change the step to save snapshot as jpeg on windows then again this works fine

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export snapshot from image g_name_holder_image to image g_name_holder_image as jpeg

why would this not be working correctly with 'gif'?



Many Thanks

[richmond62]

Well . . . for starters I suggest you install something like GIMP

https://www.gimp.org/

import your JPEG image into GIMP and Export it in GIF format . . .

This should tell you if it has something to do with the way your Windows OS (and you
omitted to say which one) handles GIF images.

[FourthWorld]

May be a bug in the Win version of the GIF library LC uses - worth filing a bug report for:
https://quality.livecode.com/