Nine-Slice

Nine_Slice Screenshot

Overview

9-slice scaling (also known as Scale 9 grid, 9-slicing or 9-patch) is a 2D image resizing technique to proportionally scale an image by splitting it in a grid of nine parts.

– Wikipedia

You can use nine-slice sprites to create UI elements, like buttons and text boxes, that can be resized without distorting the borders.

`nine_slice!`

Draws a nine-slice sprite to the game's canvas.

nine_slice!(
    name: &str,
    margins = (u32, u32, u32, u32)
    x = i32,
    y = i32,
    w = u32,
    h = u32,
)

Param	Type	Default	Description
`name`	`&str`		Name of the sprite to use as a nine-slice
`margins`	`(u32, u32, u32, u32)`	`0`	The margins of the nine-slice sprite
`x`	`i32`	`0`	X position of the nine-slice
`y`	`i32`	`0`	Y position of the nine-slice
`w`	`u32`	`0`	The width of the nine-slice
`h`	`u32`	`0`	The height of the nine-slice