Re: What's the easy way to do this?
Re: What's the easy way to do this?
- Subject: Re: What's the easy way to do this?
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 16:05:42 +1000
On 28/6/02 2:43 AM +1000, Michael Sullivan, email@hidden, wrote:
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> On 26/6/02 10:42 PM +1000, Steve, email@hidden, wrote:
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>> I have a script controlling Xpress 4.11
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>> It brings in some artwork into a picture box and then does this...
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>> tell image 1
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>> set scale to {"70", "70"}
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>> set bounds to centered
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>> set tempbnds to the bounds of me as list
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> Be warned that the bounds of an image is unreliable.
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You bet it is -- I was going to suggest roughly what you did below, but
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tried it in SD first because I know how Xpress is...
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It won't get left, or top of bounds.
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What's really interesting is that if I convert *any* bounds to a "fixed
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rectangle", then I can't use Xpress to get the individual pieces via
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'top' or 'left'.
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There also doesn't seem to be any way to pull out strings from this
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either, pretty much anything I try to do with that errors.
Either get the left and top separately:
set theLeft to left of bounds
or use coerce:
set theBounds to coerce bounds to list
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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