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[jbv]

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> The other option is to write a REALLY complex resizing script that can do
> all the math for figuring out the aspect ratio of all objects, and then
> resizing them according to your stack's width and height, and their own
> location.  If you can handle that then great, but it's one project I won't
> tackle.
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I did something pretty similar : actually I did not resize
a stack; there was a "grid" of thumbnails of a certain size
(about 200 by 100 pixels each, don't remember the exact
figures) arranged in about 80 rows of 5 cols. of course
all thumbnails weren't visible altogether on a 1024 x 768
pixels stack, and there was a vertical scrollbar on the right to
scroll the group of thumbnails.
But under certain conditions, end users needed to see the
whole group of thumbnails, and in 1 click it was possible
to resize the thumbs and rearrange them in a grid of 20 x 20.
Some thumbs contained imported images, and others were
empty (according to previous actions of the user). Some
were also selected (different bordercolor) and others weren't.
There were actually 2 grps of objects : 400 images and 400
graphics used for "empty" images.
Scrolling both grps together, as well as toggling back and forth
from 5 * 80 to 20 * 20 were quite easy to do using grps and did
execute very fast...

So I don't see why such a project should remain out of reach...

JB