Thanks everyone - so many properties, so little time.
Pete
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> Pete-
>
> Monday, July 25, 2011, 10:32:09 PM, you wrote:
>
> > I totally missed the "paint" keyword in the dictionary but all is well
> now.
>
> > The reason I was doing this i
Hmmm... that may modify what I posted. I will have to compare Livecode resizing
with pre-resizing before import again.
Bob
On Jul 25, 2011, at 10:52 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
> One thing that might help is to set the resizeQuality property of the image
> to "best" before resizing (default is "n
I will say this about resizing images in Livecode: Don't. The Preview app that
comes with Apple OS X does a much better job of resizing an image than Livecode
does "on the fly" by which I mean setting the size of the image using the
height and width properties. This is not a criticism, but an ob
Pete-
Monday, July 25, 2011, 10:32:09 PM, you wrote:
> I totally missed the "paint" keyword in the dictionary but all is well now.
> The reason I was doing this is because took a PNG snapshot of a group
> control into an image control, then tried to resize the image control, but I
> found that t
One thing that might help is to set the resizeQuality property of the image to
"best" before resizing (default is "normal").
Regards,
Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX Design
On Jul 25, 2011, at 10:32 PM, Pete Haworth wrote:
> I totally missed the "paint" keyword in the diction
I totally missed the "paint" keyword in the dictionary but all is well now.
The reason I was doing this is because took a PNG snapshot of a group
control into an image control, then tried to resize the image control, but I
found that the image lost definition very quickly. My solution was to
expo
> Using 'eps' crashes Livecode for me as well with a PNG file - 'paint' works
> fine however.
EPS is a *very old* import method, dating back to when MetaCard (the precursor
to Revolution which was the precursor to LIveCode) was only on Unix; it was for
systems that used Display Postscript (like
Excellent, thanks!
Pete
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Terry Judd wrote:
>
> On 26/07/2011 10:53 AM, "Pete Haworth" wrote:
>
> > I have a png file that I want to get into a stack using the import
> command.
> > I issue the command from the message box:
> >
> > "import eps from file ""
>
>
On 26/07/2011 10:53 AM, "Pete Haworth" wrote:
> I have a png file that I want to get into a stack using the import command.
> I issue the command from the message box:
>
> "import eps from file ""
Pete - I think you should be using 'paint' rather than 'eps'
import paint from file
Using 'ep
