Image
The image component lets you display pictures in your app.
Image Overview
The Image component lets you display pictures in your app and pairs nicely with image based components like the Camera, Photo Library, Image Recognizer and Media DB
Set Image
There are a few ways you can display an image in your app:
Take a picture with the Camera component
The blocks above open up your phone’s camera and set the Image component to the picture that you took.
Edit Image size
You can set how tall the Image is using the height property and set how wide it is using the width property.
Height
Fill container - The Image fills the entire screen vertically
Fit contents - The Image’s height changes to fit the contents it contains
Relative size - The Image fills the specified percentage of the screen
Absolute size - Sizes the Image to a specified number of pixels
Width
Fill container - The Image fills the entire screen horizontally
Fit contents - The Image’s width changes to fit the contents it contains
Relative size - The Image fills the specified percentage of the screen
Absolute - Sizes the Image to a specified number of pixels
Resizing the Image
With the Resize Mode property, you can do the following:
Cover: Resizes the picture to its max height or width regardless without changing the image quality.
Contain: Resizes the picture to fit the area without changing its quality
Stretch: The picture’s height will change to fill the image component length-wise
Repeat: Repeats the picture at its original quality within the image component area
Center: Positions the picture in the middle of the image component
Style the Image
You can style the image with the following properties:
Border
Width: Enter how wide you want the border outline of the image to be
Color: Pick a color for the border of the image
Radius: Enter how round you want the edges of the border for the image to be
Add spacing
You can change the spacing and positioning of the Image with the Margin and Padding properties.
Margin
You can specify how much space you want between the edges of the image and the screen using either pixel or percent values.
Padding
You can specify how much space you want between the border and the contents of the image using either pixel or percent value.
Events
Click
This event handler is fired when the user clicks on the image.
Properties
Computed Dimensions
The Computed Height
and Computed Width
blocks return the on screen dimensions of the image, after it has been rendered on-screen. The value returned is an integer, representing the size of the image in pixels.
Height
The set and get height blocks work with the Height property of the image component. Acceptable input values are.
Number of Pixels
Percentage Height
"Fit Contents"
"Fill Container"
Picture
The set and get picture blocks work with picture property of the image component. Pictures can be uploaded as local assets or specified as URLs
Resize Mode
The set and get resize mode blocks work with how the picture is scaled within the image component. Acceptable values are:
Cover
Contain
Stretch
Repeat
Center
Visible
The set and get visible blocks are used to show or hide the entire image component. Acceptable values are:
True
False
Width
The set and get width blocks work with the Width property of the image component. Acceptable values are.
Number of Pixels
Percentage Width
"Fit Contents"
"Fill Container"
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