Rectangle.Inflate

[Guest]

Hi,

Why no inverse of this method? We can inflate but not deflate or shrink?


Thanks.

 

[Justin Weinberg]

Inflate is just a convenience method. You can always create a new
rectangle. I think the reason it's included is to simplify hit testing.

 

[Byron Cullen]

Use negative numbers for the inflate values to deflate the rectangle.

Byron Cullen
ThunderTools

 

[Alvin Bruney]

Then maybe its a bad name for a method. it should be rescale() or something.

 

[100]

Hi,

Then maybe its a bad name for a method. it should be rescale() or

something.
Maybe, but it changes the size and location of the rectangle. Thus, names as
rescale or resize are not completely correct as well, I think.

B\rgds
100

 

[Alvin Bruney]

Transform() then

Hi,
something.
Maybe, but it changes the size and location of the rectangle. Thus, names as
rescale or resize are not completely correct as well, I think.

B\rgds
100

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Maybe, but it changes the size and location of the rectangle. Thus, names as
rescale or resize are not completely correct as well, I think.

Mhm... Scaling changes the position too, doesn't it? It depends on what
is scaled, I know.

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Transform() then

Transformation is too general, it can refer to rotations/mirroring etc. too.

 

[Alvin Bruney]

Ok how about we name it after me

Alvin()

Transformation is too general, it can refer to rotations/mirroring etc. too.

 

[Jason Dorie]

I dunno, I think a NumbNuts() function might be confusing too. ;-)

Jason

 

[100]

Mhm... Scaling changes the position too, doesn't it? It depends on what
is scaled, I know.

Maybe. I will expect to specify percentage of scaling, though.
rect.Scale(150) or rect.Scale(1.5)

I don't know. I think Inflate is OK. I kind of believe that having a
complementary Deflate or Shirnk method is not as great ideia as it sounds .
Windows API doesn't have Deflate, MFC CRect has but Inflate and Deflate do
the same work the difference is in the sign of the parameters which we have
to use to get the same result I found it little bit confusing. So I believe
it's better to have only one method. I'm cool with that name. Method with
the same name that do the same kind of work can be found in almost any
framework or graphics library.

B\rgds
100

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Ok how about we name it after me

Alvin()

Do some research, write some papers about it and maybe the'll name it
after you.

;-)

 

[Chris Dunaway]

Alvin()

How about:

InflateOrDeflateDependingOnTheParametersYouPass()