I'm making an application (running on Windows desktop) that shows a webcam and grabs an image from it. It works by using a shell command and grabbing the image in Magick convertor since grabbing the image in Livecode itself gives very poor quality.
Since the application is geared towards ages 4 to 8, I mask the webcam image in order to have the children position their heads correctly (and having it look pretty). The only way to achieve this I had to use a substack and setting it's windowshape to a graphic with a hole in it, since the videograbber object doesn't allow a graphic on top of itself in the same card.
Problem: when the user touches the webcam image the masked substack isn't on top anymore and the entire webcamimage is shown... Is there a way to block the mouse or ignore it? I hoped using on mouseUp or mouseDown, but apparentely this is completely ignored when you click on a videograbber object... An invisible button on top of it isn't an option either since you can't place anything on top of the videograbber object.
Another problem I have yet to fix: is mirroring the videograbber object at all possible? It should act like a mirror. So moving your head left moves your head on the shown webcamimage left too, as a kid of that age would expect. Not right as it is standard.
I think I may have found my first case of "damn, Macromedia Director made this easier..." and I don't want that to happen!
Thanks in advance!
Johan