Pic Ratio and Swap Image Behaviour

Alrite guys, iv been picking up my web design skills by developing my own site,

and as part of that iv design a gallery with thumbnails circling a central 
picture. now iv used the swap image behaviour to change the thumnail to the 
central large pic, unfortunatly the pictures are stretching to the limit of the

slice, is their anyway to fix the ratio of all the pics am using so they come 
up in their original size rather than being stretched beyond the original?

 Cheers 

 Dark 

In your HTML, do you have height and width set on your central image? If so, 
then whatever you put in that spot will be resized to those dimensions. The 
better choice would be to crop your images so that the large version of each is

the same size. (Or add padding to them so they at least [i]look[/i] that way.

You can do this many ways ways -

1.  Don't use swap image - use Show/Hide layer instead.  Have the alternate 
image in a hidden layer that is shown when the trigger is 'tickled'.  Using 
this method you can have images that are any dimension.

2.  Use swap image, but remove the dimensions from the original image's tag, 
i.e., change this -

<img name="original" width="150" height="220"
...

to this -

<img name="original" ...

Now when you swap in your offsize image, there is no predefined size to 
change it to.  Be aware that this method may well result in an unpleasant 
and undesirable 'rearrangement' of your page layout as it adjusts to your 
new image's dimensions.

3.  Pad the smaller image with canvas background color on all sides so that 
all the images *are the same size*.

4.  Use a SetTextofLayer behavior to change the image reference in a layer 
positioned so that it will show the desired larger image in the proper 
place.

5.  Use the PVII ShowPic extension - http://www.projectseven.com/

Take your pick....



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"Dark7722" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message 
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> the issue iv got is not the large images being reduced (am quite happy to 
> crop
> them to fit) but the much smaller images being stretched from a horizontal
> rectangle to a much large vertical rectangle, their a different shape from

> the
> central image to begin with
> 

the issue iv got is not the large images being reduced (am quite happy to crop 
them to fit) but the much smaller images being stretched from a horizontal 
rectangle to a much large vertical rectangle, their a different shape from the 
central image to begin with