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LiveCode Mobile Development Cookbook

By : Dr. Edward Lavieri
Book Image

LiveCode Mobile Development Cookbook

By: Dr. Edward Lavieri

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
LiveCode Mobile Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Taking snapshots of a card


LiveCode is capable of capturing screen images of a stack. This means that you can capture what your LiveCode mobile app displays on the screen. This can be useful for allowing the user to take screenshots of in-app accomplishments such as with a drawing app. The number of uses of this type of functionality is seemingly limitless. In this recipe, you will learn how to create an image by taking a snapshot of a stack.

How to do it...

Follow the steps in this recipe to create a LiveCode script that creates a snapshot of the screen:

  1. Open LiveCode and create a new main stack.

  2. Set the background color of the stack to white.

  3. Add nine rectangles to the stack with the following basic properties:

    • Width: 70

    • Height: 64

    • Opaque: Keep this checked

  4. Name and position the nine rectangles as indicated in the following table:

    Rectangle name

    backgroundColor

    Location

    rect1

    White

    63, 84

    rect2

    Black

    160, 84

    rect3

    Black

    258, 84

    rect4

    Black

    63, 188

    rect5

    White...