[noob] Using a TransformMorph

Peace Jerome peace_the_dreamer at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 13 21:33:03 UTC 2005


Hi Steve,
   
  From what you've written my belief is that you want to have a thumbnail of your inactive project and highlight it when the mouse goes over it.  While expanding the image would highlight it why not just highlight the border by changing its color or expanding its width or both. 
   
  The reason I ask is that would performance wise be lighter on the system.
   
  I am writing also because I recently implemented a couple of thumbnail classes.
  The change sets available right now at http://209.143.91.36/super/657 (see the bottom of the page).
   
  It does resizable thumbnails and popup thumbnails (they pop up the original size image when clicked.) 
  The red menu has a target sighting item that allows any morph image to be thumbnailed. 
   
  I will need some tweaking to make it do what you intend but its not a bad place to start. 
   
  I'd stay away from the Transform morph for what you want to do.  It has some negative side affects on the image.
   
  You might also look into what bitfillStyle does. Thats another easy way to expand and contract an image.
   
  Yours in service, -(wiz) Jerome Peace
   
  Sat Nov 12 15:08:15 CET 2005 Steve Greenberg wrote
   
   
  >Hi. I'm still messing around with squeak in my spare time and having a
blast. Honestly, this is the most fun I've had programming in a very long
time.

Anyway, I have a Morphic question, and I'd apreciate it if somebody could
point me in the right direction.

I would like to make an object that can grow and shrink depending upon
whether it's "active" (as defined by my application).

When active, it should be a regular morph that I can work with and move
around the screen. It'll have submorphs, layout, etc.

When inactive, I want it to shrink down to a thumbnail that can live on my
squeak desktop - like Projects do. When it's in thumbnail mode, I want
mouseover to cause it to expand slightly, and contract back to thumbnail
size when the mouse leaves.





		
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