Changing the extent of an ImageMorph

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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A sketchmorph is horribly complicated, too.

ImageMorph was designated as the successor to SketchMorph and then abandoned. By implication, SketchMorph was abandoned before ImageMorph.

Far better to figure out a way to resize ImageMorph, IMHO.


L.

On 1/4/12 8:59 AM, karl ramberg wrote:

A SketchMorph lets you set the extent directly

Karl

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Jan Teske <[hidden email]> wrote:

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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