After getting most of Send Me a Pic completed, I needed to figure out a way to handle the image scaling widget. The reason for needed this widget was that displaying images on cell phones causes a couple problems:
• Screen sizes are really small, even the large screen sizes are still only 320 x 240. Most are around 128px on their longest side.
• Aspect Ratios for cell phones are different for each model. Aspect Ratio is the ratio of the width of the screen divided by the height. aspect-ratio = width / height.
Both of these problems means that with out a way to scale and offset the image the photos would not show up correctly on the users phones.
Before Transform:
Above is how the image would look if it wasn’t resized. Notice all the space at the top and bottom. This looks the same as the Widescreen DVD playing on a regular TV set. Letterboxing the image is the most reasonable way to display the image at first because all of the image is displayed
After Transform:
This image has been custom fit to enhance just the area of the image I wanted and fills the entire screen.
