[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS5] Improvements to gis.m map canvas

[Michael Barton]

> From: Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 02:39:12 +0100
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Cc: Cedric Shock <cedricgrass at shockfamily.net>, <grass5 at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS5] Improvements to gis.m map canvas
> 
> So you resize the image to match the aspect ratio?

Right. I rescale so that the longest dimension of the image completely fills
the corresponding dimension of the canvas.

> 
> Okay, that makes sense from an efficiency perspective. Drawing
> probably won't be noticably affected, but composition and reading the
> image into Tk should be faster.

It would  be nice if this could be speeded up.

Michael


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