dump newbie image questiosn

[Alex Tweedly]

Chipp Walters wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> My bad, I was 'reading into' something which wasn't there.
>
> Though I wonder, why do you need a graphic "theFrame", why not just 
> scale the image directly? I'm probably missing something here.
>
> I do something similar, thought not the same, in my plugin, 
> "altImgViewer", I allow users to 'double-click' an image and display 
> it as large as it can be displayed inside a new window. I use the 
> previously mentioned function to get the image size, then check it 
> against the windowBoundingRect, then scale the window and the image 
> within the window, set the filename to the image and everything works 
> fine.
>
> Seems redundant to use a 'frame' unless you're using it for visual 
> purposes.

My frame sits below a row of buttons for navigating between the various 
jpgs in a folder, and above a status textArea, with an optional 
additional EXIF info textArea on one side - so I'd have to do a bit of 
calculation between the various controls surrounding it. It was easier 
to just have some object there, let GM resize that for me, then use its 
size.

I *should* use it for visual purposes as well - but I'm less visually 
oriented than many (most?) of the people on this list;  I'm much more of 
a programmer than a graphics / GUI person, so the visual niceties 
usually wait until the end (i.e. they get cut when I pass my deadline).  
I've even been known to do the documentation before the graphic tidy-up :-)

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