Gilgeam
04-02-2006, 07:42 AM
Dear all,
I'm having a very special problem and I thought I might as well ask for advice before giving up. (There is a community interested in it, too - see http://senseis.xmp.net/?SenseisLibraryOnTour for details on the project.)
Simply put, the problem is as follows:
I'm trying to display a game board on my Palm Zire 31, which has a width resolution of roughly 144 pixels. The board consists of 19 single pictures that together form it, each with a size of 11 pixels. Sometimes it's enough to view a part of the board, such as 8 of these pictures in a row; other times it would be nice to view a picture of the whole board. Accordingly, without image resizing I'm only capable of viewing 13 pictures in a line, which means that the whole board is displayed first with 13 pictures, then the missing 6 ones, and so on.
For example, instead of
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
it looks like this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9
which makes it pretty much impossible to work with the image. Since I have merely 144 pixels, I would need to reduce the image width to around 7 pixels. However, this also decreases the size of the pictures when displaying only a part of the board, which makes these diagrams - unnecessarily - very hard to read.
1. Is there a way to resize images according to a maximum width?
Source-wise, the board is defined as "<img src="../images/nw.gif"><img src="../images/nw.gif">" and so on, depending on the size up to 19 times, and a "<br />" at the end of each line. Maybe that helps.
2. Is there a way to disable the proportional resizing of the images? Since height is not a problem, it might improve the readability if I could at least prevent shortening the pictures.
3. If 1) is not possible, can you give me any hint on how to deal with the (probably rather complicated) problem?
Thanks a lot in advance!
I'm having a very special problem and I thought I might as well ask for advice before giving up. (There is a community interested in it, too - see http://senseis.xmp.net/?SenseisLibraryOnTour for details on the project.)
Simply put, the problem is as follows:
I'm trying to display a game board on my Palm Zire 31, which has a width resolution of roughly 144 pixels. The board consists of 19 single pictures that together form it, each with a size of 11 pixels. Sometimes it's enough to view a part of the board, such as 8 of these pictures in a row; other times it would be nice to view a picture of the whole board. Accordingly, without image resizing I'm only capable of viewing 13 pictures in a line, which means that the whole board is displayed first with 13 pictures, then the missing 6 ones, and so on.
For example, instead of
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
it looks like this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9
which makes it pretty much impossible to work with the image. Since I have merely 144 pixels, I would need to reduce the image width to around 7 pixels. However, this also decreases the size of the pictures when displaying only a part of the board, which makes these diagrams - unnecessarily - very hard to read.
1. Is there a way to resize images according to a maximum width?
Source-wise, the board is defined as "<img src="../images/nw.gif"><img src="../images/nw.gif">" and so on, depending on the size up to 19 times, and a "<br />" at the end of each line. Maybe that helps.
2. Is there a way to disable the proportional resizing of the images? Since height is not a problem, it might improve the readability if I could at least prevent shortening the pictures.
3. If 1) is not possible, can you give me any hint on how to deal with the (probably rather complicated) problem?
Thanks a lot in advance!