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How to Load an Image
You can add your own images to an application so that you can display company logos, icons, backgrounds and more. To do this;
- Go to the Repository → → Application → Images.
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- Provide a name Name for the Image
- Click Browse
- Navigate to your image, select it and click the Open button.
- Click
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How to Use an Image
- Open the properties for the component in which you want to use an image.
- In the Styles tab → Style Settings → Background Image,
- select the image from the drop-down
The drop-down list includes all images available to you. To list only the images available to the current application,- list
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- Set other options for the image, see Component → Style Settings.
Tip - background-repeat, no-repeat
- background-position, center
- background-size, 100% 100%
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Setting Palette Item Icons.
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Setting the Size of an Image
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Use the CSS Properties to size an image. For a background image, the background-size can be:
- auto: the background image is displayed in its original size.
- length: sets the width and height of the background image, for example, 20px 20px.
- The first value sets the width.
- The second value sets the height.
- If only one value is given, the second is set to 'auto'.
- percentage: sets the width and height of the background image in percent of the parent component, for example 100%.
- The first value sets the width
- The second value sets the height.
- If only one value is given, the second is set to 'auto'.
- cover: resize the background image to cover the entire container, even if it has to stretch the image or cut a little bit off.
- contain: resize the background image to make sure the image is fully visible.
- initial: sets this property to its default value.
- inherit: inherits this property from its parent component.
Getting an image to display correctly is a process of trial and error. The exact settings depend on the image size and how you want it to appear in your application. We recommend that you aim to make the image responsive on different screens using the options percentage, cover or contain. However, this can be ignored if you know your image will only be used in one form factor and you are having problems with it becoming distortedSize is set using CSS syntax to learn more see Background-Size Settings.
Example Configurations
Typically an image is set as the background of an area, and the it is set to cover it. The area is then used to set the size of the image.
Here are some possible locations for images, and suggestions for which options to use to control the image size.
Image |
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Area Background | contain | The image fills the area background |
Grid Background
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You cannot have an entire background for a grid.
Application Logo in the menu
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Grid Buttons and Icons |
length or contain
specify size e.g. 30px 30px | As grids are fixed widths and heights, you can use a fixed width and height to ensure the image displays correctly |
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Company Logo
displayed in top left
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This defaults to a height of 25px. It resizes horizontally to fill the available space.
We recommend a rectangular .svg image, as it is also used for the background of the application and an .svg image can be scaled correctly.
Company Logo
background of application
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This defaults to a height of 100px. It resizes fit the size of the .svg image file.
Buttons
length
In addition remember to apply the following Style properties:
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Alternatively, select an image in the Basic Settings.
Using 100% for the width and height ensures a button or icon fills the whole cell. This is good practice for action buttons, so that the user can click anywhere in the cell to trigger an action.
Buttons | specify size | Buttons usually have a fixed height. To ensure the button has the correct proportions, use a fixed |
This ensures the area covers the whole button so the mouse-over applies when the user is hovering over any part of the button
width and height. |
Mouse-over buttons |
length
Use the same background size and position settings as the original image. When a user moves their mouse pointer over, the image overlays the underlying image. You may need to add a background colour to the image, to ensure it covers the underlying image.
For buttons, the image will be added to an area which completely covers the button and has absolute positioning:
specify size | As above. For a mouse-over button |
remember to set the additional CSS Properties: |
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Application Icon and Logo
To change the image used on the application selection tile and/or the company logo displayed in the top left, see Editing Application Properties.
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Basic Settings
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| Name | Enter a name for the image. |
| Browse | Click the Browse button to open a file explorer window where you can navigate to the image you want to upload. PhixFlow displays a thumbnail of the uploaded image. |
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