Importing an image

[Bob Sneidar]

Hmmm... that may modify what I posted. I will have to compare Livecode resizing with pre-resizing before import again. 

Bob


On Jul 25, 2011, at 10:52 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> 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
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