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Hi All

I am writing a small app for school. They drag and drop images onto a frame to make a picture of a viking. I would then like them to be able to save the contents of the frame as a single image. All I get is a black pic. I guess it is sees the frame as being empty. All help would be gratefully received.


Many thanks

Beebotter

BB,

Some thoughts.
I assume when you say 'save' you are using a 'Copy to clipboard' action? And an Opus Frame Object is set up as the object to 'snapshot'?

There is an option with that command to 'Paste in native format', which I think you may want unchecked.

Mainly, if the Frame is 'empty' in the Opus editor, it will be empty at runtime. User dragging objects to a drop-zone does not 'insert' them into the Frame. It just understands the boundaries of the drop-zone.

Some folks here are good at using Clones... I am not one of them.

Another possible approach would be to have all the available 'shapes' WITHIN the Frame Object (in editor), but positioned outside the Border of the Frame. These would be draggable... so User can move them. Trick would be to have "copy shapes" on the sideline... when Dbl-clicked for example, action moves the corresponding shape from 'off-stage' to center of Frame..... visible and draggable.

-- Others here may know a simpler solution. You'll need to say whether pub is Full opus, Flex, etc. Also give some version and system information.
-- if issue is 'printing', uncheck some advanced graphic options/enhanced-graphics on the printer settings. (print to PDF?)
-- clipboard above gets Pasted into a word-processor or image app. (what age of kids doing this)
-- some pub operations work FINE when published, but 'underachieve' in preview mode.



Good luck.

Thanks for your reply Lar

Your comment on the frame being empty set me on the right track. I simply nested the frame within a frame. so that all the objects lay within.

Thanks

BB