[Gambas-user] Having a bit of trouble with ImageView ZoomfFit

[Cedron Dawg]

I'm not that familiar with the internals, so if I misstate something, somebody please correct me.

Your requirements are:

1) Load an image file

2) It will resize to fit as user adjusts form

In order to pull that off, the original image has to be stored somewhere in memory, and then any time a new size is needed, the original image needs to be zoomed (stretched retaining aspect ration) to fit on the larger dimension.  You can't keep resizing the same image.

My understanding is that a PictureBox is the least clunky way to display an image on a form.  The whole point of an ImageView (I thought) was to provide scroll bars when an image is too large to fit the window area.

This code works.  Whether it is the best way, I don't know.

Ced

' Gambas class file

Private mySourceImage As Image
Private myDisplayImage As Image
Private myAspectRatio As Float

'=============================================================================
Public Sub Form_Open()

        mySourceImage = Image.Load("~/Pictures/Wallpaper1920/Squirrel1920.JPG")
        
        myAspectRatio = mySourceImage.W / mySourceImage.H

End
'=============================================================================
Public Sub Form_Resize()

        Dim theZoomW, w, h, mw, mh As Integer
        
        Dim theDisplayH, theDisplayW As Integer
        
        theDisplayW = Me.W - 20
        theDisplayH = Me.H - 20
        
        theZoomW = theDisplayH * myAspectRatio
        
        mw = theDisplayW - theZoomW
        
        If mw >= 0 Then
           mh = 0 
           w = theZoomW
           h = theDisplayH
        Else    
           mw = 0
           w = theDisplayW
           h = theDisplayW / myAspectRatio
           mh = theDisplayH - h
        Endif

        myDisplayImage = mySourceImage.Stretch(w, h)

        DisplayPictureBox.Move(10 + mw / 2, 10 + mh / 2, w, h)
        DisplayPictureBox.Image = myDisplayImage

End
'=============================================================================

----- Original Message -----
From: "adamnt42" <adamnt42 at gmail.com>
To: "user" <user at lists.gambas-basic.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2019 6:19:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Having a bit of trouble with ImageView ZoomfFit

Yes, that was how I worked around it initially. But it is a bit of an 
impost on the user, I (and they) just want to see it zoomed to fit.

I'm grasping at straws here, it wont ZTF (zoom to fit) if the image is 
slightly larger than the control or it's to do with the 
OS/Desktop/GUI/gardengnome that manages images?  We used to use 
PictureBoxes but they are such a clunky control. I thought, through 
recent updates, that ImageViews were a much nicer control to work with.

I don't think I use <Imageview>.Show anywhere, we just load it and hope 
we can set the active zoom via ZoomFit().

Horribly, but not very often, it works.
Bugger, damn, etc

b