Re: Star score graphic generator achievable with inks... or...?

2021-04-04 Thread David V Glasgow via use-livecode
Thanks, but Bob Sneidar was exactly right in his original post. His solution works beautifully with real numbers represented as part stars. I did look at the segmented widget, but I wanted to represent real numbers from averaging customer ratings. The only teeny limitation is that between

Re: Star score graphic generator achievable with inks... or...?

2021-04-02 Thread Martin Koob via use-livecode
Hi again I just installed it following the instructions here https://gist.github.com/matthewmaier/a803283ffa46a28e27fd It seems to do the job. Martin > On Apr 2, 2021, at 6:51 PM, Martin Koob via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi David > > If I understand what you want you could use the

Re: Star score graphic generator achievable with inks... or...?

2021-04-02 Thread Martin Koob via use-livecode
Hi David If I understand what you want you could use the Segmented Control Widget to get what you want. https://livecode.com/livecode-widgets-the-segmented-control/ It just has full ratings, i.e. whole stars however in a comment to that tutorial Paul McClernan has a link to a "Five-Star

Re: Star score graphic generator achievable with inks... or...?

2021-04-02 Thread David V Glasgow via use-livecode
Of course what you suggest is a perfect solution. Someone had to mail me off list and explain it using very small words. Cheers David G > On 2 Apr 2021, at 10:08 am, David V Glasgow wrote: > > > >> On 1 Apr 2021, at 6:00 pm, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> Actually I

Re: Star score graphic generator achievable with inks... or...?

2021-04-02 Thread David V Glasgow via use-livecode
> On 1 Apr 2021, at 6:00 pm, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > Actually I think you would have to set the width of the top group, then set > the left of the top group to the left of the bottom group. Simply changing > the right will move the group I think. Just going off memory. >

Re: Star score graphic generator achievable with inks... or...?

2021-04-01 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Actually I think you would have to set the width of the top group, then set the left of the top group to the left of the bottom group. Simply changing the right will move the group I think. Just going off memory. Bob S On Apr 1, 2021, at 9:59 AM, Bob Sneidar

Re: Star score graphic generator achievable with inks... or...?

2021-04-01 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I think what I would do is have 2 locked groups of stars overlaying each other. The back one the stars would be gray, and to top one whatever color you want. To register a value simply change the right of the top group to any value you want, to obscure the gray stars underneath. Bob S On Apr

Star score graphic generator achievable with inks... or...?

2021-04-01 Thread David V Glasgow via use-livecode
Hi folks, I am thinking about an app to create a 'star score' graphic for any given score/maximum value. I don’t want it to be just integers up to the number of stars, but for one for the stars (if mean score is neither zero or the maximum) to be part golden and part grey. I initially