<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On 4 April 2024 at 15:39:23 +01:00,
mick.crane <mick.crane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:<br></div><blockquote
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class="oneComWebmail-body"><div>On 2024-04-04 15:31, Colin Clark
wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>On 4 April 2024 at 08:44:22 +01:00, mick.crane
<<a href="mailto:mick.crane@xxxxxxxxx";>mick.crane@xxxxxxxxx</a>>
wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>Hi,<br></div><div>Is it possible to restrict
the growth of the rectangle to an aspect ratio?<br></div><div>Dragging the
pointer in the x direction forces y dimension in fixed % of
x?<br></div><div>Also can the rectangle grow from a central
point?<br></div><div>cheers<br></div><div>mick<br></div><div>I think this is
do-able.<br></div></blockquote><div>How do you see the user interface for
setting the aspect ratio?<br></div><div>Using the aspect ratio of the original
image would be good - no user<br></div><div>interface involved. I assume that
is not what you want.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That would be
less useful. Maybe if you could type ".5625" into a file or
preference.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>The possibilities may
be:<br></div><div>1. A single value that is set (infrequently) somewhere in
Edit/Preferences<br></div><div>2. A drop-down box, available to the user at
execution time, containing standard aspect ratios e.g 16:10,
16:9<br></div><div>3. A text box available to the user at execution time into
which the user types some number e.g. 0.333, or
16:9<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
