Jeanne, Due to some other commitments, it may be a day or so before I can work it into my existing code, but I'll definitely give it a go. Thank you very much! -Doc-
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 17:19:19 -0800, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 5:09 PM -0600 1/2/05, docmann wrote: > >Is there a way to constrain or scale the display image while > >maintaining the proper size perspective of the original image, to > >avoid distortion? > > Here's a quick way, assuming you want the image to be 100 pixels x > 100 pixels or so: > > create image "Holder" -- optional - if the image object doesn't exist yet > set the filename of image "Holder" to myURL > -- (myURL contains the URL of the image you want to show) > -- get the ratio of the natural width/height of the image: > put the width of image "Holder"/the height of image "Holder" into > naturalRatio > -- scale the image to respect its aspect ratio: > if naturalRatio = 1 then -- square image > set the rect of image "Holder" to (0,0,100,100) > else if naturalRatio < 1 then -- image height is proportionally greater > set the width of image "Holder" to 100 > set the height of image "Holder" to trunc(the width of image > "Holder"/naturalRatio) > else -- naturalRatio > 1, image width is proportionally greater > set the height of image "Holder" to 100 > set the width of image "Holder" to trunc(the height of image > "Holder" * naturalRatio) > end if > set the lockLoc of image "Holder" to true -- maintain current size > set the loc of image "Holder" to 100,100 -- or wherever you want to put it > > The above sets the smaller dimension of the image to 100 pixels. You > can vary this to set the larger dimension to 100 pixels by setting > the height to 100 first if naturalRatio < 1, and the width if > naturalRatio > 1. > -- > jeanne a. e. devoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.jaedworks.com > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
