Importing an image

[Scott Rossi]

One thing that might help is to set the resizeQuality property of the image to "best" before resizing (default is "normal").

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX Design


On Jul 25, 2011, at 10:32 PM, Pete Haworth <lists.pete at haworths.org> wrote:

> I totally missed the "paint" keyword in the dictionary but all is well now.
> 
> The reason I was doing this is because took a PNG snapshot of a group
> control into an image control, then tried to resize the image control, but I
> found that the image lost definition very quickly.  My solution was to
> export to a file, resize it in Photoshop, then import it.  Maybe there's a
> way to do the resizing in LC without losing definition?
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Ken Ray <kray at sonsothunder.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Using 'eps' crashes Livecode for me as well with a PNG file - 'paint'
>> works
>>> fine however.
>> 
>> EPS is a *very old* import method, dating back to when MetaCard (the
>> precursor to Revolution which was the precursor to LIveCode) was only on
>> Unix; it was for systems that used Display Postscript (like NeXT boxes)...
>> so I'm not too surprised that it crashes LiveCode when fed the wrong
>> filetype...
>> 
>> ;-)
>> 
>> Ken Ray
>> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
>> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> use-livecode mailing list
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your
>> subscription preferences:
>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
>> 
> _______________________________________________
> use-livecode mailing list
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
>