Re: Equilateral Triangles

2015-06-15 Thread Randy Hengst
would this help at all? create a regular polygon with 3 sides… then in the script of that graphic: on mouseDown repeat while the mouse is down local tStartLoc put the loc of target into tStartLoc set the angle of target to (the angle of target + 15) set the loc of targe

Re: Equilateral Triangles

2015-06-15 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > He mentioned that his images are square. That is, the triangle is perhaps > aligned with the top of the square. So, the center to the triangle is not > at the center of the square. If the triangle is offset on purpose, and the intent is to

Re: Equilateral Triangles

2015-06-15 Thread Colin Holgate
He mentioned that his images are square. That is, the triangle is perhaps aligned with the top of the square. So, the center to the triangle is not at the center of the square. > On Jun 15, 2015, at 7:17 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: > > Wait -- why are you rotating by 120? That's 1/3 of a revoluti

Re: Equilateral Triangles

2015-06-15 Thread Geoff Canyon
Wait -- why are you rotating by 120? That's 1/3 of a revolution, i.e. the triangle should look identical to an unrotated one. Are they specially colored or something? In any case, I'd either: 1. Create rotated images externally, and sub them in rather than actually rotate. 2. Do the rotation whil

Re: Equilateral Triangles

2015-06-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
This may help: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-paper-triangle-from-a-square/ Bob S On Jun 15, 2015, at 13:17 , Richmond mailto:richmondmathew...@gmail.com>> wrote: there is NO way one can centre an equilateral triangle in a square. __

Equilateral Triangles

2015-06-15 Thread Richmond
I am importing equilateral triangle images, which are, obviously, contained in square PNG image files. When I either ROTATE or SET THE ANGLE of these images by 120 degrees they rotate, but the also jump around the screen because there is NO way one can centre an equilateral triangle in a squar

Bored Children should be . . .

2015-06-15 Thread Richmond
Well, either sent to do a Tom Sawyer with a pot of paint, muck out the byre, or, failing that they could do worse than mucking around with LiveCode over her: https://www.facebook.com/RMLCclasses Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lis

Re: open stack finds stack in wrong path!?

2015-06-15 Thread Devin Asay
Correction. On Jun 15, 2015, at 11:56 AM, Devin Asay wrote: > Tiemo, > > On OS X looking for a stackfile relative to the location of the .app bundle > will look inside the .app bundle, as you have seen. This should have said “On OS X looking for a stackfile relative to the location of the sp

Re: open stack finds stack in wrong path!?

2015-06-15 Thread Devin Asay
On Jun 15, 2015, at 10:37 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > Hello, > > LC 6.5.2, OS X 10.9. I have a splash stack and a main stack. The mainStack > is located at the regular place on the same level as the executable within > the app bundle. > > Because this software runs directly from CD and ther

open stack finds stack in wrong path!?

2015-06-15 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, LC 6.5.2, OS X 10.9. I have a splash stack and a main stack. The mainStack is located at the regular place on the same level as the executable within the app bundle. Because this software runs directly from CD and there also is a windows version on the CD, there is a copy of the mainStack

Re: I wish ...

2015-06-15 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 6/15/2015 8:23 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > On 2015-06-11 18:00, Paul Dupuis wrote: >> ... that LiveCode had a way you could set any and all the coordinates >> (loc, rect, top, bottom, left, right, topLeft, topRight, bottomLeft, >> bottomRight) of an object inside a group RELATIVE to the group (

Release 6.7.6 RC 1 / 7.0.6 RC 1

2015-06-15 Thread Sebastien Nouat
Dear List Members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 6.7.6 RC 1 and 7.0.6 RC 1. This release is a maintenance release which contains bug fixes for both versions. The list of bugs fixed can be found in the Release Notes. * /dontuseqt/ is now a Player property as well * It is n

Re: I wish ...

2015-06-15 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2015-06-11 18:00, Paul Dupuis wrote: ... that LiveCode had a way you could set any and all the coordinates (loc, rect, top, bottom, left, right, topLeft, topRight, bottomLeft, bottomRight) of an object inside a group RELATIVE to the group (AND independent of the group's scroll) - like the rela