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Howdy

I'm wondering if you can tell me if individual object affine transformation will be exposed as a property of all objects? Even if it's just scale and rotation it would be quite helpful but skew could have some uses...

I have project where I'd ideally be able to set the scale of a group independently of the stack to get the group to fill a certain space on screen irrespective of the device scale. Scaling the group would I think be much more efficient than scaling the content.

Cheers

Monte

@monte:
This would indeed be nice, but realistically we are quite a way away from being able to apply 'transform' properties to objects - at the moment, the transform that is applied to the stack for resolution independence is applied before any of the objects touch it (the mapping handles on a stack-wide basis essentially). It's something that requires a bit more thought as there are a few things in the current semantics which work against us - coords are all relative to card, coords are all 16-bit ints, objects don't have an intrinsic size (the size is defined by the rect).

I have project where I'd ideally be able to set the scale of a group independently of the stack to get the group to fill a certain space on screen irrespective of the device scale. Scaling the group would I think be much more efficient than scaling the content.

Can you elaborate more on the situation?

We have got plans to add a stack property to allow you to specify a 'fullscreenScaleMode'. Essentially, with this set, the stack's size wouldn't change but the stack would be scaled to fill the screen in one of a few modes. So you design at the size you want, and then the engine will transparently scale it up to fill the screen.

Well the project has a toolbar like UI at the bottom and a main content area that needs the content to be proportionally scaled to fit the area. So its scale would be different to the toolbar scale.

Wha Hoo!
fullscreenScaleMode
That will make you very popular.

Simon