no matter what I try -- I can not change the aspect ratio of the underlying image
(not just the container)
eg I want to make a square look like a rectangle
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no matter what I try -- I can not change the aspect ratio of the underlying image
(not just the container)
eg I want to make a square look like a rectangle
Hold down the Alt key before touching one of the controls.
This is the Squishy/Squashy Saga where Xara hid a Smart Transform option behind a right-click on the Aspect Ration icon - go figure.
Search Squishy/Squashy in TG for the whole sorry saga.
Acorn
Here I think this is what you are asking about.
Attachment 125967
it's in the manual.... ;) ... or is it ?
I read all over the manual -= all I tried to scale the photoQuote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
not the box
who knew to search on SQUISHY?and
just did find it
it is "stretching and squashing"
and no where does it say to use the ALT key
THAT is CRUCIAL
(else it not work)
THANKS to all and to ACORN
That made me smile because strictly speaking a square is a rectangle.. ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by TheeeDragon
yep -- you got me ! :-OQuote:
Originally Posted by pauland
I guess oblong has fallen out of fashion!Quote:
Originally Posted by TheeeDragon
As an oblong is a rectangle that is not a square, I hope not.Quote:
Originally Posted by pauland
Acorn
It's not a word we hear often, even when it's entirely appropriate!Quote:
Originally Posted by Acorn
back in the day xara used to issue a handy card with it's CD's here is the one I got with ver 11, with the squash [aka squish] indicated:Quote:
Originally Posted by TheeeDragon
Attachment 125976
of course, you need to know what squash is in this context....
here is the section from the xdp11 manual which mentions alt on the last line:
Attachment 125977
I don't have other manuals to hand right now to check
well == oblong is not really a rectangle
as it does not have any square corners
:cool:
The definition of oblong seems to vary worldwide. This is what I was brought up with:Quote:
Originally Posted by TheeeDragon
UKhaving a flat shape with four sides and four angles of 90° and opposite sides of equal length:
an oblong box
Violet sat down at the oblong oak table that was against the wall.
Synonymrectangular
in mathematics an oblong is any rectangle except a square - generally it can be applied to any 2D object that has been elongated along one axis relative to the other... (the clue is in the name)
EDIT - guess I'd better qualify that and say in everyday terms you can apply it to 3D objects as long as you realise it only applies to two of them [the dimensions that is].... ;)
@handrawn I still have that! Thanks for the memories.Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
I still have the CDs right back to 2003.... :D
Ditto, but I have misplaced my Artwork Disc 1 somewhere in a house move in 1998.Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
Acorn
There must be some kind of therapy group you can join for that... ..oh yes there is TG!Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
the cds are in a plastic box that was bought for 5.25 floppy disks back in the 80s - i am a squirrel :)
Ah, the mid-range discs, LOL (I used to use machines that had 8" floppy discs ).Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
and then there were main frame eds - about the time i lived in a cardboard box in't middle of't road
I can go back as far as ferrite memory cores:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...CoreMemory.jpg, By Konstantin Lanzet - received per EMailCamera: Canon EOS 400D, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7025492.
128 Bytes of non-volatile storage!!!, that, I believe, had to be threaded by hand.
Those were the days. My first programming language was APL running on an IBM 1130; a one week course but I stayed for 8 weeks. Concise - UK Lottery Numbers: x[⍋x←6?59].
Acorn
george 3
ferrite cores
boot using toggle switches in octal (!) code
blow cold air through using fan to stop overheating
3 day week...
such a mis-spent youth .... :)
Nostalgia eh? You can't beat it.Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
Acorn
I used George 3 with an ICL 1900. I was at school.Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
Indeed, but I may re-live it with this..Quote:
Originally Posted by Acorn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GlfwbIZaWc
I accessed a PDP 11 to play Meteor Black Hole onto a 24-inch diameter cathode ray tube.
The PDP 11 has a 22-bit bus as far as I can remember, something weird.
I also recall flipped switches to boot. I remember that system was about six racks wide - a lot of switches.
I remember George 3 & 4, used on my university ICL 1904A mainframe with Hollerith cards for input.
Acorn
School: ICL 1904A ( phone link to council treasury department ). I and my friends were pretty good at George 3 and Fortran, so much so that the Council once rang our teacher up with the words "can't you keep those bloody kids under control". In my naivety I made a request to my local library to order the George 3 manual set. They told me it was too expensive, but if there was a particular volume they would buy one of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Acorn
At university I was taught to bootstrap the PDP-11 from the switches, entering the instruction code, as you say, on the front panel using switches. I continued doing stuff like that until the early-mid eighties ( I programmed computers that had no display ).
If you look at my link above they discuss a kit that simulates being a PDP-11. I'm going to buy one.
All my computer yesterdays..
you make me feel old
the ICL 1900 had octal boot - i remember the pdp 11 coming onstream but i never operated one, they were DEC 16bit minicomputers
At University I was in the "last one" generation - 1976. Last ones to be taught about core-stores. Last ones to be taught to program in Algol-60.Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
While I was in university a magazine appeared "Personal Computer World" - that amazed me that a magazine existed about computers. It was fantastic - very hands-on. Some time later (perhaps a year) after others were launched, I overheard two of the staff in WH Smith talking and one was explaining to the other that the revenue from the computer magazines (two titles, three at most) had overtaken that of all of the women's magazines altogether. I thought that was a real watermark to indicate how interest was building.
Computers did a lot less back then, but were far more exciting in many ways.
I sort of remember a line of George 3 - it was so common..
#we comerr goto 1stop
..something like that!