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[JohnCampbell]

Paul,

I have now tested export_image@ and it is able to generate a .png file and support the 128 colour palette that I am defining. This solves the problem I have been having with .gif files.
I have been able to export from both the visable screen and a virtual screen.
I am not sure of the size of these files, in comparison to .gif files, but they appear to be similar in size to .jpg files.
The advantage of .png over .jpg is that .jpg can compromise the colour resolution and also can have some unusual adapted colour patterns.

The .png is a better solution for the screen dumps I am making.

Thank you very much for this addition at Ver 6.36

John

PS I modified the code to dump out 5 types of formats. I have listed out the file sizes for two screen dumps, which are about 80% white and detail for light source shading or rainbow palette. The file sizes are (k bytes):

[PaulLaidler]

I have added .png files to import_image@ for the next release (not the current beta download).