Re: Rotating PNG images

2018-03-05 Thread Jim Lambert via use-livecode
With the added WAIT this is a bit more fun to look at. And it checks for angles > 32767. You get an error if you set the angle of an image to greater than 32767. local ang on spin repeat forever add 13 to ang if ang > 32767 then beep put 0 into ang end if

Re: Rotating PNG images

2018-03-05 Thread hh via use-livecode
> Richmond M. wrote: > There's no "instead", I set the angle on PNG images and they deteriorate. Did you already try hhMockUp (from "sample stacks")? I just tried with the LCC 1024x1024 logo. Simply use the images menu there to import and then select it from that menu. Works fine: skewing, scalin

Re: Rotating PNG images

2018-03-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
No. All fairly pedestrian stuff. On 5/3/2018 9:43 pm, Keith Martin via use-livecode wrote: On 5 Mar 2018, at 18:34, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: I set the angle on PNG images and they deteriorate. For clarity, are you setting the angle to something other than 90/180/270 degr

Re: Rotating PNG images

2018-03-05 Thread Jim Lambert via use-livecode
Richmond wrote: > LiveCode is incapable of rotating anything other than SVG images > without a bad case of the "jaggies". RichardG wrote: > have you tried setting the angle property instead? Richmond wrote: > I set the angle on PNG images and they deteriorate. I find that rotate image

Re: Rotating PNG images

2018-03-05 Thread Keith Martin via use-livecode
On 5 Mar 2018, at 18:34, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: I set the angle on PNG images and they deteriorate. For clarity, are you setting the angle to something other than 90/180/270 degrees? k ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecod

Re: Rotating PNG images

2018-03-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
On 5/3/2018 6:33 pm, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: When testing here on Ubuntu 14.04 images rotated at 90, 180, or 270 look very good. How can I reproduce what you're seeing? Also, have you tried setting the angle property instead? There's no "instead", I set the angle on PNG ima

Re: Rotating PNG images

2018-03-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
Erm . . . Yes: I trace the monochrome images in Inkscape and then import them into SVG widgets using my homegrown stack. On 5/3/2018 6:30 pm, hh via use-livecode wrote: Richmond M. wrote: Not much. Luckily I am building images where the part that needs rotating is monochrome so that can be rend

Re: Rotating PNG images

2018-03-05 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
When testing here on Ubuntu 14.04 images rotated at 90, 180, or 270 look very good. How can I reproduce what you're seeing? Also, have you tried setting the angle property instead? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web _

Re: Rotating PNG images

2018-03-05 Thread hh via use-livecode
> Richmond M. wrote: > Not much. > Luckily I am building images where the part that needs > rotating is monochrome so that can > be rendered as an SVG and imported into a widget. > This is, however, quite beside the point . . . > The inability of LiveCode to do something that nearly > every other p

Re: Rotating PNG images

2018-03-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
Not much. Luckily I am building images where the part that needs rotating is monochrome so that can be rendeered as an SVG and imported into a widget. This is, however, quite beside the point . . . The inability of LiveCode to do something that nearly every other program seems to manage "easily

Re: Rotating PNG images

2018-03-05 Thread Mike Bonner via use-livecode
if you set the resizequality of your images to "best" prior to rotating, does it help? It should make quite a difference. On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 3:48 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I have just spent/wasted 60 minutes rotating 64 PNG images in GIM

Rotating PNG images

2018-03-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
I have just spent/wasted 60 minutes rotating 64 PNG images in GIMP because LiveCode is incapable of rotating anything other than SVG images without a bad case of the "jaggies". Now I will have to import those 64 images into a stack and store them somewhere unseen to present inwith graphic object