texturemodes
Throughout this documentation you might find multiple references to "uiz_texturemode_...". These constants define different ways of displaying and scaling textures.
For example: A texture might be 16 pixels wide, but at some point in your ui that texture has to stretch a width of 100 pixels. What should happen then? Should the texture just scale? Or tile? That's what these constants define.
| Original image | If the sprite didn't have to be resized in any way. |  |
| uiz_texturemode_fill | Take the entire sprite and stretch it over the entire surface | |
| uiz_texturemode_edgeless | Take the sprite, cut off it's border and stretch it over the entire surface. The reason this is used is to prevent certain smoothing issues from happening. Sometimes when a sprite is stretched a lot and blend interpolation is turned on in Game Maker, the edges of your sprite may blend with other textures, or transparent spots on the texture page. Use this if you get weird gradients or transparency issues around your texture. On your sprite you may need to add an extra border that suits the color of your sprite around it's edges. This mode may not have been implemented correctly everywhere. |
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| uiz_texturemode_tile | Take the entire sprite and tile it to fit. This may tile incomplete parts of sprite. The sprites will always be scaled at 100% |  |
| uiz_texturemode_tilefit | Take the entire sprite and tile it to fit. This will only draw whole sprites. The sprites may be slightly scaled to accomodate whole sprites. |  |