Re: The Most Stupid Question Ever?

Details on how the Message Box behaves, which explains the seeming anomaly and is perhaps just fun to know (esp. if you ever want to write a drop-in Message Box replacement): https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=34903#p198108 -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design

Re: Best way to add an image to an oval graphic?

Using the backgroundPattern seems intuitive, but read the fine print: image dimensions have very specific requirements, and not heeding those can yield unpredictable results. Earlier this year I had a project that used backgroundPattern as a way to use the graphic shape to mask an image. It w

Re: Best way to add an image to an oval graphic?

Patterns are drawn from the top left so you'd need to create an image with the same dimensions as the oval with its content already centered. This will only work if the oval never changes its size. Another way is to place the image behind the oval graphic and group them. -- Jacqueline Landman

Re: Best way to add an image to an oval graphic?

I should have said just create an image file the size and appearance that you want it to be, then import it into Livecode. Bob S On Nov 11, 2020, at 8:40 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: Ideally though, just create an image file the size and appea

Re: Best way to add an image to an oval graphic?

As a pattern of a graphic, I don’t think so. Even scaling the graphic does not shrink or alter the position of the pattern. Why are you using a graphic instead of just an image? I think you can mask an image, so it should be possible to only show through what you want. Ideally though, just crea

Re: Best way to add an image to an oval graphic?

Hi Graig, I think I understand it a bit better now. The image I used has different dimensions than the graphic oval. See screenshot: https://ibb.co/0tXkLHy I could scale the image down to the same size (width) as the oval graphic but then I don;t get the center of the image. Because it is a patte

Re: The Most Stupid Question Ever?

The message box is not a container. It’s a stack. A stack that tracks global properties, global variables, pending messages and stacks in use actively. It stands to reason then that it has to be either in the message path somehow. I’m not sure how that affects things, but I have noticed while at

RE: Best way to add an image to an oval graphic?

Hi. I made an oval graphic and set the backGroundPattern to the ID of a random image I imported to the card. It filled the grc perfectly. Do you have a screenshot of what you are seeing? Craig -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf

Best way to add an image to an oval graphic?

Hi there, When I set the BackgroundPattern of an graphic oval to the image ID, the image is not centered inside the oval graphic. What is a better way to add an image to a graphic oval (and center it? greetings, William ___ use-livecode mailing list u

Re: The Most Stupid Question Ever?

> On 10 Nov 2020, at 11:14 pm, Craig newman via use-livecode > wrote: > > So then LC knows when the message box is about to be the target, and > therefore acts differently than with any other container. The actual already > executed command "put" is left stranded, unrequited, because the nex