[Drawkit] drawkit suitability for a grid of resizable photo tiles

[Joel Reymont]

On Oct 4, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Uli Kusterer wrote:

> You're aware of Apple's ImageKit and that view (I forgot its  
> name ...) that is in there, right? It does an iPhoto-like image  
> matrix. It kinda sounds like you're trying to do that.

IKImageBrowserView? I need a tiling behaviour, though, something where  
I can resize one tile and the others will shrink. I don't remember how  
it works in iPhoto but I think it still goes according to rows and  
columns.

Perhaps you can visualize a rectangular vertical image in the middle,  
a horizonal image laying on top and flush with it but at an offset.  
And the rest of the images kind of wrap around it.

    ooooooooo
    ooooooooo
xxxxxxx11111
xxxxxxx11111
xxxxxxx11111
xxxxxxx11111
        11111
        11111

There are no rows and columns here, it's sort of a mosaic. I can  
either generate it randomly, somehow, or build one by making tiles of  
a different size while enforcing that all the tiles are flush with  
others.

No space is allowed and no background can be seen behind the tiles.  
They should always tightly fill a rectangle and form as few rows and  
columns as possible.

Then I should be able to grab images from a "film strip" at the bottom  
of my app and drop them onto the tiles to populate the mosaic.

	Thanks, Joel

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