Re: Creating complex graphic objects

2009-04-04 Thread James Hurley
Message: 16 Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 08:19:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Richmond Mathewson Subject: Creating complex graphic objects To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: <421630.70136...@web37505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 James Hurley wrote: "Th

Creating complex graphic objects

2009-04-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
James Hurley wrote: "Then take the points of the circle (in the variable results) to extract say the 10th and 14th points. Create a new graphic using these two points and set the end arrow to true. Do this periodically throughout the repeat loop--every so often pick a pair of points, create

Re: Creating complex graphic objects

2009-04-02 Thread James Hurley
- Message: 8 Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:52:04 +0100 From: David Bovill Subject: Creating complex graphic objects To: How to use Revolution Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I've a couple of shapes that I need to create for an app that

Creating complex graphic objects

2009-04-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
David Bovill wrote: "Try these great experiments: Stacks and Pieces of Code for Runtime Revolution by Alejandro Tejada Capellan" Downloaded that and popped it into my Plug-Ins folder. [Thinking about integrating it as a substack of revTools]. BIG THANK Y

Re: Creating complex graphic objects

2009-04-02 Thread David Bovill
Hi James thanks for the pointer - good to have in the library 2009/4/2 James Hurley > >> Message: 8 >> Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:52:04 +0100 >> From: David Bovill >> Subject: Creating complex graphic objects >> To: How to use Revolution >> Message-ID:

Re: Creating complex graphic objects

2009-04-02 Thread James Hurley
Message: 8 Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:52:04 +0100 From: David Bovill Subject: Creating complex graphic objects To: How to use Revolution Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I've a couple of shapes that I need to create for an app that lend themselves to the u

Re: Creating complex graphic objects

2009-04-02 Thread David Bovill
Try these great experiments: Stacks and Pieces of Code for Runtime Revolution by Alejandro Tejada Capellan 2009/4/2 Richmond Mathewson > > "EPS objects are supported only on Unix systems that support Display > PostScript" > > although I had a lot of 'fun'

Creating complex graphic objects

2009-04-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
No joy: "EPS objects are supported only on Unix systems that support Display PostScript" although I had a lot of 'fun' with the Terminal and apt-get :( Come on David; tell us about these: "I know of experiments importing geometry from apps like Illustrator" because knocking together the sort

Creating complex graphic objects

2009-04-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
What a silly sausage I am :) Found (badly buried) in the documentation, that EPS are not supported on Mac and Windows. Just cranking up the Ubuntu box for a 'go': will keep all of you out there waiting with baited breath posted :) Here's a dirty thought: maybe once I have imported a 'sexy' EPS

Creating complex graphic objects

2009-04-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Created a circle with a numbers of evenly spaced clockwise arrows in Inkscape and saved to EPS; all very straightforward (especially as that is probably the first time in my life I have ever used a vector graphics program - Yup, no fooling). Blow me down: under File/Import as Control/ if EPS Fil

Creating complex graphic objects

2009-04-02 Thread David Bovill
I've a couple of shapes that I need to create for an app that lend themselves to the use of the graphic control - because I want them at various sizes and also because they use "markers" on a graphic shape. The problems is the complexity of tweaking the points by hand. I know of experiments importi