button resize

[Graham Samuel]

On Friday, August 15, 2003, at 12:33 PM, Andrew wrote:

[...]
Say I create a cartoon of a man in
>  photoshop and I paste him into Revolution.  Then my little man becomes
>  an "image" in Revolution language.  However, when I paste him in, the
>  rect of the image is the size of the entire card!  How can I get the
>  rect of my little man to be exactly the size of him?

I was about to suggest pasting into a locked (size and position) 
image object, because I thought this would resize the picture to the 
image size like it does in SuperCard, but a quick experiment shows 
that it doesn't. Must Andrew therefore do the resizing either outside 
RunRev or inside via script? I am interested in a RunRev internal 
solution myself - can anyone suggest the most efficient one? I know 
there have been previous discussions about creating thumbnails, but I 
couldn't find an actual recipe for importing an arbitrarily-sized 
picture into a fixed-size image (and reducing the resolution on the 
way).

>
>  Now a slightly more complicated question:

[re animation]

I see that the answers Andrew has been given have not included using 
Rev's own Animation Builder. I don't think there is a really complete 
description of all that this feature can do in the docs, nevertheless 
there is a tutorial that shows the basics. It might work well for 
certain kinds of animation.

HTH

Graham

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