Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-12 Thread RM
No: I'm sorry, I'm not going to for the very simple reason that when I opened LC 8 DP 15 on Xubuntu 64 bit 15.10, created a standard 400x400 stack, imported an SVG widget, and clicked on it to get the preference palette my whole computer froze solid. Probably try it later with DP 12 or somethi

Re: Re-Render Card-image that has moved on disk

2016-03-12 Thread Monte Goulding
There has been an image cache for a while. You can clear it by setting the imageCacheSize (I think that's the name of the property) to 0 then back to whatever it was. Sent from my iPhone > On 13 Mar 2016, at 1:20 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > LC8 dp 15 (perhaps was doing this

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
But the second line appears distorted and the "S: in the first line is rendered "chunky" and the left vertical bar of the "V" narrows at the bottom apex: ergo: not true to the original type. On March 12, 2016 at 3:07:19 PM, Alejandro Tejada (capellan2...@gmail.com

Re-Render Card-image that has moved on disk

2016-03-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
LC8 dp 15 (perhaps was doing this before) open stack which has card with image "listen-background" filename prop for the image is set to a file on disk. on disk: move the file into another folder go back to LC, move to another card and come back to the above card: image still appears, even t

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-12 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Please test this SVG code. Copy and Paste this in a SVG icon in LC8. I used Inkscape to create this code. M 0 0 L 0 58.929688 L 117.85938 58.929688 L 117.85938 0 L 0 0 z M 21.695312 10.265625 C 23.213546 10.265625 24.759867 10.417384 26.335938 10.722656 C 27.912007 11.027929 29.525461 11.48711 31.

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-12 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi, BR wrote >> We would like to make small things in Illustrator and then >> bring them into LC but the SVG widget is super primitive... >> we need support for more than one path. even a simple >> thing like this (see below) cannot be imported. I just tried and this SVG file could be impo

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-12 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Colin, Colin Holgate-3 wrote > This part seems wrong. According to Mr Wikipedia, SVG competed with a > couple of other vector graphic formats, and all three were for still > images. Recently there has also been animated SVG, which arguably could be > used to replace either animated GIF or simpl

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-12 Thread Colin Holgate
This part seems wrong. According to Mr Wikipedia, SVG competed with a couple of other vector graphic formats, and all three were for still images. Recently there has also been animated SVG, which arguably could be used to replace either animated GIF or simple Flash animations. Amusingly, one of

No SVG in LC 8

2016-03-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
> On 03/12/2016 09:09 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > >> Sadly, SVG integration has had to be dropped from the LiveCode 8.0 >> release. OK I tried turning type into outlines, grouping and then making compound path... so far so good. only one set of values inside d="M117.86,58.93H0V0H117.86V58.93ZM12

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-12 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, Today, I could barely breathe but don't worry. Asthma was my childhood problem that is just menacing to return. Now I have better knowledge and mental resources to recover faster :) On 03/12/2016 09:09 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > Sadly, SVG integration has had to be dropped > from the Li

Better theming in Livecode 8

2016-03-12 Thread RM
This looks interesting: https://livecode.com/better-theming-in-livecode-8/ Until one reads this: "If you don’t want to use the new appearance, you can set the “theme” property of a control, group, card or stack to “legacy” and the pre-LiveCode 8 appearance will be used. To get the new appeara

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-12 Thread RM
On 12.03.2016 19:30, Mark Wieder wrote: On 03/12/2016 09:09 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: Sadly, SVG integration has had to be dropped from the LiveCode 8.0 release. Eh? Here we go again. R. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-12 Thread Mark Wieder
On 03/12/2016 09:09 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: Sadly, SVG integration has had to be dropped from the LiveCode 8.0 release. Eh? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Importing SVG images into LC 8

2016-03-12 Thread RM
Well, as not all of us have Adobe Illustrator [ http://lessons.livecode.com/m/33498/l/3 ... -extension ] I thought I would put together a similar "Show-Me" thing using Inkscape [ https://inkscape.org/e

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-12 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 12/03/2016 14:32, RM wrote: On 12.03.2016 00:12, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: On March 11, 2016 at 11:57:25 AM, Peter TB Brett (peter.br...@livecode.com) wrote: I really encourage you to take a look again at the widgets in the next LiveCode 8.0 DP relea

Livecode Share

2016-03-12 Thread RM
This is a great online resource: http://livecodeshare.runrev.com/search/ But the search system is not very good at all. And advanced search system would make a huge difference. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Pl

SVG complexity

2016-03-12 Thread RM
If one imports an SVG image into LibreOffice Draw [whether this works with MIcrosoft Office, I just don't know] one can then export the component parts as individual SVG paths to import into LiveCode. Of course this is a "pain", but it is, at the moment, a case of either that or convert the th

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-12 Thread RM
Until LiveCode "just does" SVG images, a clever person who understands Java might be able to do something with this to break down an SVG image into its components so that they could be imported individually: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10621118/split-groups-in-svg-into-sub-images-positio

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-12 Thread RM
On 12.03.2016 00:12, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: On March 11, 2016 at 11:57:25 AM, Peter TB Brett (peter.br...@livecode.com) wrote: I really encourage you to take a look again at the widgets in the next LiveCode 8.0 DP release, That would be super; but

Widget Palette

2016-03-12 Thread RM
As the range of Widgets in LiveCode 8 is set to expand I would like to see a "revWidget" stack as something separate from the "revTools" stack. http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=26785 Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@