ImageSource with images of various sizes

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for Paris :-)

> If you
> show an image of another opened stack in your button (as icon), the  
> size
> maybe bigger but results dropped and it's OK; in a field as  
> imagesource,
> it's not dropped and 'invades' the field.

As far as I know, images used as icons in buttons or placed in fields  
are never resized.
Fortunately :-)

As for me I would use something like:

on SetImageSource pImageName,pField,pChar,pHeight
   create invisible image
   set the botright of last image to -1,-1 -- off-screen
   put image pImageName into last image
   set the lockloc of last image to true
   set the name of last image to pImageName & "Thumb"
   set the height of last image to 14
   set the width of last image to (the width of img "Ref" / the  
height of img "Ref") * pHeight
   set the imageSource of char pChar of fld pField to pImageName &  
"Thumb"
end SetImageSource

And then I would use for instance:  SetImageSource "Ref","Test",3,14
Where Ref  is the name of an original image, Test the name of a  
field, 3 the char number and 14 the height I want for the image in  
the field.

Best Regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.

Le 2 déc. 05 à 15:46, Paul Claude a écrit :

>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> Then if you want to show a big image AND have a mini thumbnail used
>> as an icon, there are 2 possibilities:
>> If images are static ones, prepare 2 images, a big one and a tiny
>> one :-)
>> If images can be imported by the user, you'll build their thumbnail
>> on-the-fly.
>>
>> Le 2 déc. 05 à 13:00, Paul Claude a écrit :
>>
>>> No, the problem is this: I cannot change the original image, nor
>>> copy it. I
>>> only need to show an 'icon' of the image (as in a button).
>>
>> Best Regards from Paris,
>>
>> Eric Chatonet.
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> So Smart Software
>>
>
> Thanks, Eric, but the problem is different: I would use the  
> imageSource
> property to show images from other stacks on a list field in my  
> stack, but
> avoiding to manipulate the images and to make unreadable my field.  
> If you
> show an image of another opened stack in your button (as icon), the  
> size
> maybe bigger but results dropped and it's OK; in a field as  
> imagesource,
> it's not dropped and 'invades' the field.
>
> Paris c'est merveilleuse (I'm born in Paris).
>
> Bye
>
> PaulClaude

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