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 ...