I have done this by putting the image inside a group with a locked rect. It
worked quite well.
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> On Sep 22, 2017, at 3:25 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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> We need to occasionally Offset referenced images in their frame.
> place a large image into a small rect; move that image internally so that a
> given area of the composition is focused/centered in the image area.
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> I thought I knew how to do that, but today the method escapes me. Is it
> possible? basically you would set the top left or top of the image data to
> some offset relative to the rect of the image object that contains it.
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> Perhaps my head is munging Livecode with the power of CSS to use offsets
> like this to leverage single images "sprites" that contain multiple icons
> which are simply shown by changing offsets of the background of a div
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> We could dynamically import these, and use crop, but we don't want to do that
> because it bloats the stack in RAM
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> Hoping not to have to resort to masks and such. Is offsetting the imagedata
> in a referenced image even doable? use the Cmd key plus dragging handles does
> not work on referenced images. Looks like it implements crop internally which
> can only operate on imported imageData. Strange effects on screen…
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