Until LC fills this request, check these options discussed before: 1) Ink Effects for masking an image within a group
Scott Rossi wrote: > Try this stack (in your message box): > go url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/site_files/downloads/masking_options.rev" > The reason why a group with ink effects might be a > preferable masking solution is the image can be > positioned/resized independently of the mask. > This is demonstrated in the sample stack. > As Jacque pointed out, when using a backPattern, > the image is always drawn from the topLeft of the > object and is fixed. Also a backPattern does not > support translucency, while a group can. But using > a group can be a bit more work. 2) Hidden Point Technique Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Try these scripts too, before using a group: 1) Create a new stack 2) Create a polygon graphic and set the points of it to: 0,0 34,268 224,268 127,365 34,268 3) import an image into this stack, put the image in a corner, where it does not hide the graphic and: set the backpattern of grc 1 to the id of img 1 (now, the imported image is cropped within the graphic) 4) set the script of the graphic to this variation of Scott Rossi script (posted by Bernd) to move the first point of the graphic and (at the same time) move the image within the graphic: local lpoints,tClick,tFirstPoint -- based on Scott Rossi script for masking images local sMinX, sMinY on mouseDown put mouseH(),mouseV() into tClick put the points of me into lpoints put line 1 of lpoints into tFirstPoint put line 2 to - 1 of lpoints into tPointLIst filter tPointList without "" sort tPointList numeric ascending by item 1 of each put item 1 of line 1 of tPointList into sMinX sort tPointList numeric ascending by item 2 of each put item 2 of line 1 of tPointLIst into sMinY put "mouseDown" & cr & lpoints & cr & cr into fld 1 end mouseDown on mouseMove X,Y if tClick = "" then exit mouseMove put (X - item 1 of tClick,Y - item 2 of tClick) put (X - item 1 of tClick) + item 1 of tFirstPoint,(Y - item 2 of tClick) + item 2 of tFirstPoint into line 1 of lpoints if item 1 of line 1 of lpoints > sMinX then put sMinX into item 1 of line 1 of lpoints if item 2 of line 1 of lpoints > sMinY then put sMinY into item 2 of line 1 of lpoints set the points of me to lpoints end mouseMove on mouseUp put "" into tClick end mouseUp on mouseRelease put "" into tClick end mouseRelease ------------------------------------------ Check this thread in: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2016-March/225312.html Al _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode