I have done this by putting the image inside a group with a locked rect. It worked quite well.
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 22, 2017, at 3:25 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > 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. > > 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. > > 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 > > We could dynamically import these, and use crop, but we don't want to do that > because it bloats the stack in RAM > > 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… > > Brahmanathaswami > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
