[Laszlo-dev] how to specify cursor offset (hotspot) for bitmap cursor assets?

[Henry Minsky]

I'll try to generalize the data structure so the user can manually specify
width/height at some later date if we want to.



On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Max Carlson <max at openlaszlo.org> wrote:

> On second thought, maybe being able to specify an offset for the resource
> itself is all we really need for now...
>
>
> Max Carlson wrote:
>
>> I think adding some attributes to the resource tag is the way to go.
>> Ideally, the hot spot could be any shape, but a rectangle may be enough for
>> now.  You may want to add height and width attributes also...
>>
>> Henry Minsky wrote:
>>
>>> I'm working on http://openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-8372. One of the
>>> issues we have is that there's no way to specify the offset (  'hotspot' )
>>> of a cursor asset
>>> which is not a .swf file.
>>>
>>> What would be the best way to do this?
>>>
>>> I was thinking maybe we should add a new optional attribute for
>>> <resource> which is "offsetx" and "offsety", and
>>> then the cursor resources could be declared that way
>>>
>>>    <resource name="crosshair" src="cursor_crosshair.png" offsetx="8"
>>> offsety="8"/>
>>>
>>> or else maybe we make a special <cursor> tag which the LPS compiler
>>> converts into a resource
>>> table entry?
>>>
>>> Any thoughts on this?
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Henry Minsky
>>> Software Architect
>>> hminsky at laszlosystems.com <mailto:hminsky at laszlosystems.com>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
> --
> Regards,
> Max Carlson
> OpenLaszlo.org
>



-- 
Henry Minsky
Software Architect
hminsky at laszlosystems.com
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