Image scaler for Xojo

Good morning (o;

Someone knows a simple program that takes as input a PNG image and:

  • Allows me to set the image size for x1 resolution
  • Generates automatically images for x2 and x3 resolutions for Xojo

I know of the Image Resizer Toolbox, but that hadn’t an update since 5 years and requires to prepare an image upfront at x3 resolution.

RetroBatch has a lot of features but the interface is klunky.

I’m currently working on a simple app myself to do 1x/2x images with pngquant.

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Just thought of doing something myself (o;

BTW: Does Xojo support drop applications?

I think Pixelmator Pro can do this.

I use the Topaz lineup to upscale as it uses AI to enhance the image to fill in the data not being there. https://www.topazlabs.com

Have the GigaPixel AI…but use that more for other cases where I need to redraw a low-res image inside Affinity Designer.

Started now my own application…at least dropping a PNG onto the App Icon and showing it then works (o;

Was driving me nuts now how to accept SVG files to drop onto the Apps icon until I found this tool:

https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/utiutil12.zip

You just enter the extension and you got all the information for your file type (o;

On macOS you can get all that information by dropping a file from Finder into a FileTypesGroup

Interesting…never heard about it (o;

I’m always surprised how fast you can achieve something with Xojo on a cloudy Sunday afternoon (o;

Great thing is that it does handling transparency of SVGs and PNGs automatically when scaling :wink:

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This app can that also. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dru/id413444702?mt=12

Interesting approarch. With my short tests using the new CLI application Ciderpress2, I saw it is quite simple to create a GUI application for command line utilities.