Scaling an Image to a Rect

[dunbarx at aol.com]

Hi.


So the aspect ratio is to remain constant, that is, the ratio of width to height.



If you want to scale the image, this ratio must be maintained. If the new rect, for example is to be 1,5 times as wide as the old, but the new height is only 1,4 times as tall as the old, then the larger (width) value has to be used for both, and the excess height cropped. Similarly, if the image is scaled down, the larger value is to be "filled", and the other cropped. In all cases, the ratio is maintained.



Using the several properties, "width", "height", "rect", "topLeft", etc, can you manage this? Write back if not, but it will be a terrific exercise for learning, and you should try first.




Craig Newman




-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Friedman <dan at clearvisiontech.com>
To: use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Tue, Oct 15, 2013 4:11 pm
Subject: Scaling an Image to a Rect


Greetings!

I have been piddling around with this for weeks and still can't get it right.  I 
kinda got it working... but it's still not always 100% correct.  So, I thought I 
would ask this list for assistance since most of the people here are far smarter 
than I!

You have a rect and an image.  The goal is to completely fill the rect with the 
image.  But, we don't want to distort the image.  So, you need to proportionally 
scale the image up (if the image is smaller than the rect) or down (if the image 
is larger than the rect).   Remember that we want to completely fill rect.  It's 
ok (and expected) that some of the image will be cropped.

Think of this as setting the background of a stack with an image.  You want to 
fill the entire background of the stack (regardless of the size of the stack), 
with the image (regardless of the rect of the image).  But we don't want to 
distort the image.

Any thoughts?

-Dan
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