tip - group margins

Shari gypsyware at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 5 07:38:02 EDT 2003


>I've been making a little image editing stack and ran across 
>something interesting.
>
>I was using a group to display a crop rectangle, and kept finding 
>that although I set the rect of the group to the rect of the image 
>(when first showing the crop box), when I displayed the rects of 
>both objects they were different by 4 pixels (even though appearing 
>to be identical on screen).
>
>The key is to remember that objects like groups have margins which 
>are automatically applied, therefore in my situation I needed to do 
>the following:
>
>set the margins of group "crop" to 0
>
>~ Rodney

The margins, or the borderWidth?

Shari C
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