well, i couldn't remember if it did or not, so it doesn't hurt to try.

i *seems* at this point that the calling app is segfaulting, not the resizing code ... i've liberally salted the code with  warn " this or that ... " if DEBUG;, and the resizing works, the object method is supposed to return ( and i get the warning that it's about to do so ), BUT i don't see the warning after the object method returns ...