Don't you have to set the lockLoc of the image to true to make the resizing stick reliably?
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Paul Dupuis <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a problem with scaling images and printing. > > I have the following portion of code where tObj is an image and tPrecent > is a number from 5 to 400. It's purpose is to scale an image to a % > scale factor the user entered and it does so. > > put the fileName of tObj into tFile > set the filename of tObj to empty > set the fileName of tObj to tFile > set the alwaysbuffer of tObj to true > put the loc of tObj into tLoc > set the width of tObj to (the width of tObj * (tPercent/100)) > set the height of tObj to (the height of tObj * (tPercent/100)) > --set the imagedata of tObj to the imagedata of tObj -- to fix the size > for printing > set the loc of tObj to tLoc > > If I then print the card with the image on it, the image is printed at > it's original size rather than the scaled size. If I added the commented > line "set the imagedata of tObj to the imagedata of tObj" back in to > "fix" the size of the image to the scaled size, card prints with the > image at the scaled size. Yea! > > However, with the "set the imagedata of tObj to the imagedata of tObj" > line in the script, if the user resizes again, so the code above is > called with a different scaling factor, the image vanishes (or appears to). > > The intent of the lines: > put the fileName of tObj into tFile > set the filename of tObj to empty > set the fileName of tObj to tFile > > was to set the image back to its original size each time before scaling > so that the scaling would always be against the original image size (not > against it;s currently scaled size). > > Is there a better way to allow users to rescale an image from it's > original size and still fix its size for printing? > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
