Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-13 Thread Colin Holgate
It shows” SIVA SIVA white on black for the first line and black on white for the second line. > On Mar 12, 2016, at 8:42 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > > 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 11

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-13 Thread RM
I had a go in DP 11 and got this: executing at 10:47:51 AM LCB ErrorUnable to parse path data: "Path must begin with moveto command" at position 1 ObjectSVG Icon LCB Filesvgpath.lcb LCB Line342 I wonder what that picture is; after I tried to feed the code back into In

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: 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: 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

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

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

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

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

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-11 Thread -hh
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.. This (was below) is a *really* simple and super primitive

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-11 Thread Devin Asay
> On Mar 11, 2016, at 2:55 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > On 11/03/2016 20:20, Devin Asay wrote: > >> Peter, >> >> I’m glad to hear this. I recently did a “deep dive” into several of >> the widgets in preparation for introducing my students to widgets for >> mobile. I compiled a list of problem

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-11 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
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, Will there be more robust SVG support in the current SVG widget? We would like to m

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-11 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 11/03/2016 20:20, Devin Asay wrote: Peter, I’m glad to hear this. I recently did a “deep dive” into several of the widgets in preparation for introducing my students to widgets for mobile. I compiled a list of problems I found, including dictionary errors, problems with the property inspecto

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-11 Thread Devin Asay
> On Mar 11, 2016, at 8:06 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > On 11/03/2016 14:49, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Q for Peter: will Widgets like the On/Off toggle be updated to use >> OS-native appearances on OS X and Android? > > Sort of. > > Ali and I have spent the last week and a half working on *

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-11 Thread Roger Guay
Me too, but I certainly understand the need and desire to do the native thing. > On Mar 11, 2016, at 11:00 AM, RM wrote: > > I have always developed stuff to look exactly the same regardless of which > operating > system it has been deployed to: life seems far too short to quibble about the

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-11 Thread RM
On 11.03.2016 18:41, Richard Gaskin wrote: Roger Guay wrote: > I didn’t even know it was a property! I never used it as a delivery > mechanism, but rather as an early or preliminary detection/indication > in developing for other platforms. Thanks for the plugin in, Richard. I hope you enjoy i

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-11 Thread RM
On 11.03.2016 16:49, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter TB Brett wrote: On 11/03/2016 01:26, Roger Guay wrote: Sorry if I missed this in prior posts, but what happened to the Look and Feel option in the View menu? Isn’t this a serious omission? The "Look and Feel" options were removed from the me

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-11 Thread Roger Guay
Thanks for this clear warning. It will help! Cheers, Roger > On Mar 11, 2016, at 9:41 AM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > In fact, I think that for everything from font metrics to control shapes > you'll find greater consistency among the native themes for all three desktop > platforms than betw

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Roger Guay wrote: > I didn’t even know it was a property! I never used it as a delivery > mechanism, but rather as an early or preliminary detection/indication > in developing for other platforms. Thanks for the plugin in, Richard. I hope you enjoy it, but I would caution against using the lookA

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-11 Thread Roger Guay
I didn’t even know it was a property! I never used it as a delivery mechanism, but rather as an early or preliminary detection/indication in developing for other platforms. Thanks for the plugin in, Richard. Cheers, Roger > On Mar 11, 2016, at 7:49 AM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > I have to

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-11 Thread Roger Guay
That makes sense. Thanks, Peter. > On Mar 11, 2016, at 2:39 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > On 11/03/2016 01:26, Roger Guay wrote: >> Sorry if I missed this in prior posts, but what happened to the Look >> and Feel option in the View menu? Isn’t this a serious omission? > > The "Look and Feel" o

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-11 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 11/03/2016 14:49, Richard Gaskin wrote: Q for Peter: will Widgets like the On/Off toggle be updated to use OS-native appearances on OS X and Android? Sort of. Ali and I have spent the last week and a half working on *all* of the core widgets to bring them up to the standard that we feel i

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter TB Brett wrote: On 11/03/2016 01:26, Roger Guay wrote: Sorry if I missed this in prior posts, but what happened to the Look and Feel option in the View menu? Isn’t this a serious omission? The "Look and Feel" options were removed from the menu bar, because it's technically impossible to

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-11 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 11/03/2016 01:26, Roger Guay wrote: Sorry if I missed this in prior posts, but what happened to the Look and Feel option in the View menu? Isn’t this a serious omission? The "Look and Feel" options were removed from the menu bar, because it's technically impossible to make them work the way

Re: Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-11 Thread RM
That does seem a bit odd given the latest stuff about theming. Richmond. On 11.03.2016 03:26, Roger Guay wrote: Sorry if I missed this in prior posts, but what happened to the Look and Feel option in the View menu? Isn’t this a serious omission? Thanks, Roger ___

Look and Feel in LC8

2016-03-10 Thread Roger Guay
Sorry if I missed this in prior posts, but what happened to the Look and Feel option in the View menu? Isn’t this a serious omission? Thanks, Roger ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubsc