Importing an image

[Mark Wieder]

Pete-

Monday, July 25, 2011, 10:32:09 PM, you 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?

Here's how I do group control snapshots in PowerTools. Obviously this
could be simplified a lot if you're working in the same stack and with
a fixed height and width:

private function CreateThumbnail pWidgetGroup, pStack, pThumbRect
    import snapshot from control id pWidgetGroup of stack pStack
    set the resizequality of the last image to "best"
    set the width of the last image to item 1 of pThumbRect
    set the height of the last image to item 2 of pThumbRect
    return the id of the last image
end CreateThumbnail

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net