[Newbies] Changing the extent of an ImageMorph

[karl ramberg]

I see your point but I don't think it's worth the hassle unless one wanted
to bring ImageMorph futrher on by implementing the needed methods.

Karl

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Lawson English <lenglish5 at cox.net> wrote:

>  A sketchmorph is horribly complicated, too.
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> ImageMorph was designated as the successor to SketchMorph and then
> abandoned. By implication, SketchMorph was abandoned before ImageMorph.
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> Far better to figure out a way to resize ImageMorph, IMHO.
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> L.
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> On 1/4/12 8:59 AM, karl ramberg wrote:
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> A SketchMorph lets you set the extent directly
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>  Karl
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> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Jan Teske <
> jan.teske at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
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>> Hey,
>>
>> I'm currently developing a small game with Squeak. Part of it is a bunch
>> of menus which should have background images. Therefore I have realized
>> them as ImageMorphs with the respective images.
>> Now, there are menus which sizes are determined dynamically during the
>> runtime of the game. That means I have to change the size of the menus.
>> Since I cannot do this by manipulating 'menu extent: ...' directly, the
>> only way I found until now is to manipulate the image form 'menu image:
>> menu image scaledToSize: ...'. That works pretty well except for one thing:
>> I cannot change the aspect ration of the original image with scaledToSize:.
>> Since I do not know the extends of my menus before the game starts, I
>> cannot say anything about the needed image ratio. Since my menus should be
>> as applicable as possible I need to be able to resize also in a way which
>> destroys the original scales.
>>
>> Is there any easy workaround for my problem or a recommended way for
>> creating resizable Morphs with background images?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
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