RectangleStyle explained

[GenesisRage]

i didnt think i was the only one that found the rectanglestyle to be a bit confusing, so i ran through many tests to find out what exactly happends.

-first off, it does not need 9 elements, you can get away with just 1.
-how the images will line up all depend on sizes, but all are next to the center frame

+---+----------+----+
|   |          |    |
+-+-+----------+----+
  | |          |    |
  | |          |    |
  | |          |    |
  +-+----------+----+-+
  | |          |      |
  +-+----------+      |
               +------+

-notice how the the different sizes align with the center frame.
-the corners will always be a 1:1 ratio.
-the sides (n,s,e,w) are a 1:1 ratio from center to edge, but varry from corner to corner (n will be a varied width from nw to ne)

Shrink and Stretch
-these names were the hardest part, because they do no operate as you would image.

shrink=true, stretch=true: image will scale, and will not repeat
shrink=true, stretch=false: image will not scale, repeated image will scale
shrink=false, stretch=true:image will not scale, and will not repeat (default)
shrink=false, stretch=false: image will not scale, repeated image will not scale

shrink true=scale, false=dont scale
stretch true=dont repeat, false=repeat

-as you can see the words do not really match their meanings
-the way i remember is shrink=scale, stretch=opposite of repeat

with clever planning you can setup very useful rectanglestyle's. i decided to post this after working out a background with a large gradient where the bottom faded to black, and thought someone might be able to learn from my headache

[Landiin]

The important thing to remeber when making rects is;

• NW, NE, SW and SE should be the same size.
• All north images should be the same heigth as the NW and NE images, same for topwest and topeast. Width just needs to be big enuff to get the texter.
• All south images should be the same heigth as the SW and SE images, same for bottomwest and bottomeast. Width just needs to be big enuff to get the texter.
• All west images should be teh same width as teh NW and SW images. Heigth just needs to be big enuff to get the texter.
• All east images should be the same width as the NE and SE imaages. Heigth just needs to be big enuff to get the texter.