Making beta-testing easier

[Thomas McGrath III]

Marielle,

I did have another stack open. ;)
When I hit the save button no image gets saved. Neither does the save 
all to folder. I'm not sure why. Also, is the picture supposed to show 
up in the right hand window? the name of the card shows up but no 
images.

OSX 10.3.9 REV 2.6

Tom

On Jun 15, 2005, at 4:01 PM, Marielle Lange wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> Important detail... In the version you tried, it only works if a 
> second stack was opened.  I fixed that now, so that it presents a 
> crosshair and doesn't hide the metadatastack when there is no second 
> most active application.
>
> For some reason, taking a snapshot works in the dreamcard IDE but not 
> in the player. I haven't figured out why yet... I welcome any 
> suggestion.
>
> Anyway, the trick to produce a basic snapshot taker and saver is only 
> a three liner you can put in any button:
>
> import snapshot
>                 --- if you don't any "from rect information, then it 
> presents a crosshair)
> ask file "Save the file as:"
>                  -- you could use "filter with" but you need a bit more
>                  -- lines to handle platform differences
> export image 1 to url ("binfile:" & it) as JPEG
>                  -- this is assuming there is no other image on the 
> page;
>                  -- when you call to ask file, the result of the ask 
> is automatically saved into a "it" variable.
>
> Have a try :-)
> Marielle
>
>> Marielle,
>>
>> I downloaded and tried the Happy Snap stack but it does not work at 
>> all in REV 2.6
>>
>> FWIW
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> On Jun 13, 2005, at 5:33 AM, Marielle Lange wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> For the many hobbyists who, like me, have no easy access to multiple 
>>> computers, it is important to rely on the community for 
>>> beta-testing... and the easier you make it for others to provide you 
>>> informative feedback, the more chance you have to receive it.
>>>
>>> In this context, know that the "metadata creator" file can now also 
>>> be used to help with testing. I posted a revised version which let 
>>> you take a snapshot of the second most active stack (the one most 
>>> active after the "metadata generator" stack). It can be used to take 
>>> a snapshot to send by email to the author of a stack. (It can, of 
>>> course, for its primary purpose: to let you advertise your stack on 
>>> the gallery).
>>>
>>> Alternatively, you can use happy snap, by sweat technologies 
>>> (<http://www.sweattechnologies.com/rev/>)... It's a more elaborate 
>>> stack which lets you take screen captures for all cards in a stack 
>>> and export them to a folder of your choice. I used it to rapidly 
>>> produce the images used in the slideshow at: 
>>> <http://revolution.lexicall.org/tutorials/what_is_revolution/> (well 
>>> with another proprietary application to do the images in a folder > 
>>> slideshow conversion).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Marielle
>>>
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>>> Marielle Lange (PhD),  Psycholinguistics, Lecturer in Psychology and 
>>> Informatics
>>> University of Edinburgh, UK
>>>
>>> Homepage:  http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlange/
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>>
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>
> Marielle Lange (PhD),  Psycholinguistics, Lecturer in Psychology and 
> Informatics
> University of Edinburgh, UK
>
> Homepage:  http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlange/
> Lexicall project: http://lexicall.org
> Revolution-education project: http://revolution.lexicall.org
>
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Thomas J. McGrath III
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1000 Killarney Dr.
Pittsburgh, PA 15234
412-885-8541