Grouping - unexpected behaviour

Graham Samuel livfoss at mac.com
Mon Sep 21 17:56:39 EDT 2009


Richard to the rescue again - thanks! IMHO the default setting of  
margins should be explained in some other place than under 'margins',  
because if you don't know what a margin is or that it exists for a  
group, you're stuffed. I have submitted a note to the docs for the  
'group' command.

Graham

On 21 Sep 2009, at 19:00, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:59:49 -0700
> From: Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
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> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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> Graham Samuel wrote:
>> If I group two images or two graphics (or maybe other objects - I
>> haven't tried), where one image is totally within the bounds of the
>> other (for example, one is 640 x 480 and the other is 120 x 120 and
>> the loc of each is the same), then the group turns out bigger than
>> than the larger of the two images! There seems to be an invisible
>> margin of 4 pixels all the way around the group, making the group 8
>> pixels wider and higher than the original largest image. Is this
>> supposed to happen? I have not found a way to avoid it, and so if I
>> want to maintain the size of my composite image I will have to crop
>> it, which to me is totally unexpected. My group has no border, and
>> AFAICS the boundingRect property has no influence on the situation.
>>
>> Can anyone explain why this is happening?
>
> A new group will have its margins set to 4 by default.  Setting the
> group's margins property to 0 after creation should take care of the  
> issue.
>
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