9-slicing Sprites

[leonidcan]

Can we have 9-slicing Sprites in AvaloniaUI?

[timunie]

what is that? do you have a link for us?

[BreyerW]

This technique is most common in web and in 3d texturing mostly of in-game or in-tool UI elements. It refers to virtually slicing texture in a way that corners are NOT scaled, left and right slices are scaled only vertically, bottom and top only horizontally and middle in both directions. Eg imagine button texture with borders on that texture if u put it as-is the borders would scale horribly but with 9-slicing they wouldnt become pixelated. Theres even wikipedia entry on it under 9-slice scaling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-slice_scaling

[kekekeks]

@timunie https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.ui.xaml.controls.image.ninegrid?view=winrt-22621

[timunie]

is that something we want to have in Avalonia.Labs?

[Sorien]

way more interesting is 9-patch variant, its good candidate for 3rd party control