Right you are. I was commenting on how I *think* it *should* work, as in Bob's Own Little World.
Bob On Dec 14, 2010, at 3:11 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 12/14/10 4:53 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> Honestly, I think the multi-rotate distortion is the result of the >> fact that LiveCode works on successive iterations of images to >> accomplish the next rotate. Instead, it should keep the original, and >> display a copy of the image as rotated. This has the added benefit of >> being able to revert to the original image at a later time. > > That's what the angle command is supposed to do. Rotate distorts and is > irreversable. There's documentation about it in the dictionary under the > "rotate" entry. There's a discussion there about the resizing issue and how a > rotated image fills its frame also. > > I haven't had time to experiment, so I'm just being theoretical here. But if > changing the angle is introducing distortion then it sounds like a bug > (except that some distortion will happen regardless just because of how > pixels work.) If the original rotation was done with the rotate command, then > it is acting as expected and each successive rotation will distort the image > further. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
