On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: > Hi Roger, > > Praying on my ego are you? >
Um, yes. :) > > I don't really think I am up to this challenge. I'm not quite sure what is > needed. > > Well, I guess Adobe is in no danger of a LiveCode application competitor then. /joke I would love to be able to join the points of multiple visible poly shapes, for creative endeavors without relying on separate graphics software. Unless RunRev themselves implement an auto-trace feature some day, eventually, perhaps on some future roadmap. > But here's a thought. It sounds like joining all these disparate parts > together to form a whole might be helpful. After all, all graphics drawn > with the pencil, line, curve... tools are just a bunch of joined line > segments. If you have a bunch of such independent such groups, i'm guessing > that putting them together might help form the "single new polygon" you > speak of would be useful. > That sounds logical. > > This stack below show how to join any two graphic segments without > changing their individual shapes. It uses the handler: > > JoinLines "line1", "line2" > > It preserves the length and angle of each. > > Repeated used of this command will put all your elements together. As in: > > repeat with i = 1 to N-1 > joinLines "line" & i , "line" & i+1 > end repeat > > Of course you will have to define the order in which they are to be joined. > > go url " > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47044230/Set%20angle%20and%20join%20lines.livecode > " > > I think I posted a stack that makes uses of these "Line Tools", some time > ago. RIght now all you can do is set the points and the location. But it > would be useful on occasions to set the length and angle, and possibly join > them together without changing the shape of the bits and pieces. So here it > is again: > > go url " > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47044230/Line%20properties%20final.livecode > " > > Some of the applications in that stack are a bit frivolous, frivolous but > fun, like shattering a circle and reforming the bits and pieces into a > rectangle. > Please replace "frivolous" above with "freaking awesome". That bouncing line and exploding circle trick would be excellent in a screensaver. > > Jim > > ~Roger _______________________________________________ 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
