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From: beard@ux1.lbl.gov (Patrick C Beard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Method to Define my own "strechable shapes"
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Date: 18 Apr 89 09:16:17 GMT
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In article <820@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> emb90619@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Eric M Berdahl) writes:
>Here's my problem:
>I have a general shape stored in a RgnHandle.
...
>I want to be able to take this arbitrary shape and drag it out to
>an arbitrary size (ala MacDraw).  I have looked at MapRgn() and
>InsetRgn() and neither routine gives me just what I'm looking for.
>(Of course, I may just be doing them wrong.)
...
>-Eric

You probably are using InsetRgn incorrectly.  If you pass negative
values for dh and dv, you will grow the region.  If you have different
values for dh and dv, you can grow in a non-uniform way, just like the
grow handles in MacDraw.


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