Script call to get the width of a picture

[Benjamin Humphrey]

Hi all,

I'd like to know if there is a script call that can be used inside an event that will return the width of a picture currently on screen by passing it the number of the picture that is set with the Show Picture command?

Thanks for looking, any help is appreciated

 

[eivl]

I am pretty sure that you can not do this in MV since you are only using the corner of the image for anything.
To get the width you would need a plugin that returns the width.

 

[Benjamin Humphrey]

Hi

Yeah I found out that the picture doesn't have a width property and therefore can call what it doesn't have. I found a different solution to the problem anyway but thanks for your reply :D

 

[eivl]

Could you tell me how?

 

[Benjamin Humphrey]

Oh sorry I meant I changed the way I was doing things instead of getting to a point when I needed to use a script call. What I wanted to do was show a picture, then based on a variable show another picture that would be shown at the right hand side of the picture dynamically based on the 1st pictures width. But I found that I didn't need to do this and did something else not related to the 1st picture to solve my issue

 

[eivl]

oh, yeah! =) great that you got it working!

For anyone else reading this in the future, you would have to write a sub class to add the width and height property, you would need methods to get and set those properties and the you would need methods to output them so you can access it via script calls! ;)

 

[Benjamin Humphrey]

ImageManager.loadPicture($gameScreen._pictures[x].name()).width

Someone on a other forums said to use this and it worked, but I don't believe it's very efficient and by that time I had already figured out something else which I preferred.

 

[eivl]

Ofc, i feel stupid now you can access it via

ImageManager.loadPicture = function(filename, hue) {
    return this.loadBitmap('img/pictures/', filename, hue, true);
};

I actually just used this in another project ;)
This would be a very efficient solution to your original problem ;)

 

[Benjamin Humphrey]

What I posted would be efficient?

 

[eivl]

yes, running two methods to get an answer is almost as fast as it can be! ;)

 

[LTN Games]

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