Visual Engineering - Visual Card v1.81
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This script lets you place / rotate pictures on pictures like cards.
You might have use for AddSpaceB-script.

Mark picture you want to put on another as SECONDARY, activate
window of picture, which should be under and then run the script.


Make sure you have RX-command in Sys:Rexxc/
In normal WorkBench-install it should be there.



Shadow-type:

 - This one in most cases sucks a lot. I haven't yet figured out
   how to get best results out of it. Placement of shadow in some
   degrees of rotate is wrong or edges look like shit..


Area-type:

 - This one cuts an area out of picture.
 - This was made because Shadow-type doesn't fully satisfy me.

 - Try Area-type --> Shadow.rexx --> Rotate.rexx and then using
   Composite with method Minimum or Multiply to put it to it's
   place. This time remember to mark picture under as SECONDARY and
   activate Rotated picturewindow.




You can call this script from your own scripts, too.

  address command "rexx:rx ie:arexx/VisualCard.rexx" <pic> <sec> <type> <xplace> <yplace> <rot> <arguments>

  - <pic> is name of the bottom picture
  - <sec> is name of the picture on top
  - <type> is 0 or 1, NORMAL, MINIMUM or SHADOW
  - <xplace> is horizontal placement of <sec>
  - <yplace> is vertical placement of <sec>
  - <rot> is the rotation value for <sec>

  - <arguments>


    if <type> is SHADOW:

    <lowpassvalue> <gammavalue> <xoffset> <yoffset>

    - <lowpassvalue> is value of lowpass for shadow
    - <gammavalue> is value of gamma for shadow
    - <xoffset> is horizontal offset of <sec>picture comparing to shadow
    - <yoffset> is vertical offset <sec>picture comparing to shadow




  Example:

  rx ie:arexx/VisualCard.rexx 000_testpic.iff 001_testpic2 NORMAL 26 26 10
  rx ie:arexx/VisualCard.rexx 000_testpic.iff 001_testpic2 SHADOW 67 67 13 7 80 -5 -5

  Next lines return you the name of this new picture.

  PROJECT_LIST
  xyz=result
  pic=subword(xyz,1,1)





HISTORY

 1.81

  X and Y -offsets now actually calculate their maximum and
  minimum values. No more error-requesters because of that.

  When rotate was 0 degrees, it was imbossible to see
  outlines of secondary picture. Fixed.

 1.76

  New Type:Area
  Added some info to Notes-file.

 1.73

  Calls to external scripts had a minor bug.

 1.72

  New Type:Shadow allows to place rectangular pictures + shadow for it.
  Some changes for argument-parser.

  Just for fun, DELETE IE:Prefs/visualcard.cfg!!!

 1.50

  New Type:Minumum allows to place non-rectangular pictures.

  DELETE IE:Prefs/visualcard.cfg!!!

 1.30

  History started





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