From koffice  Thu Jun 28 20:39:07 2001
From: "Stephan Hachinger" <StephanHachinger () compuserve ! de>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 20:39:07 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: Inserting picture frames - maintain aspect ratio (again :)))
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 On Thursday 28 June 2001 22:23, Stephan Hachinger wrote:
> > Hello!
>
> Hello ! Always state which version of KWord you are talking about, please
!

Just when you replied, I sent one more mail :)) because I also noticed it.

> > Yes, I have some issues about inserting pics with maintaining ratio
again
> > :)). When I try to insert a 1024*768 jpg into the top zone of the second
> > page of  a document  (my X res is 1024*768), kword places the mouse
cursor
> > around the taskbar at the bottom of the screen and begins to scroll
down.
> > But if I try to insert a 320*200 jpg, it doesn't try to place the cursor
> > somewhere at all and lets me size the frame as I want without
maintaining
> > the picture's aspect ratio as it is in the jpg file. Hmm, am I doing
> > something stupid again or is this algorithm which tries to place the
cursor
> > or to determine the aspect ratio still a bit crappy?
>
> I have implemented "keep aspect ratio while inserting" only yesterday, so
> you need to update from CVS, if you're using beta3.
>
> About the initial placement of the mouse, I have limited it to inside the
window,
> otherwise it was too hard to use. So indeed, sometimes you'll get no
> initial size at all, and sometimes you'll get one, depending on whether it
fits
> in the visible portion of the window or not. But since in both cases you
get
> the aspect ratio maintained (with curernt CVS), this shouldn't be much of
a problem.

OK, tomorrow I'll be out of my flat for most of the time, so I will let my
P133 do another 12h compile session :).

Cheers,

Stephan