I found that GifCam is great for making little feature animations that are easier to share and embed than videos. On May 14, 2016 01:30, "Earthednet-wp" <proth...@earthednet.org> wrote:
> Great idea! I'd like to see that happen. > Bill > > William Prothero > http://es.earthednet.org > > > On May 13, 2016, at 4:19 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami < > bra...@hindu.org> wrote: > > > > SVG widget, despite limitations at the moment, is awesome making icons. > No more PNG's that go "all bust up" if you resize them… > > > > > > > > Go to iconfinder.com… download what you want as svg. > > > > > > > > Note that there are cases where the svg is in several paths. So if you > open in Illustrator, select all and make compound path, save and *then* use > that in the SVG widget… it works.. even unexpectedly where you may have > e.g. 3 dots that you would think must be independent paths… > > > > > > > > My suggestion is that you might better expose that tip on making > compound paths. > > > > > > > > Which then leads my question on user contributions channels. Let's say > we discover something useful that we feel is really buried in terms of what > newbies would need and might be frustrated trying to find. > > > > > > > > How does one best get that into the mix of documentatin/tutorials. > Another useful channel I see is YouTube itself… lots of people posting > things like "How to do this in Outlook" 3 minutes, max > > > > > > > > But it is fragmented. > > > > > > > > We do a lot of small tech screen casts internally and it would be > trivioal for me or many others to start recording video and just do a "Up > and Running with SVG Icon" 2 minutes, open stack, drag SVG icon out. > Switch to browser, download SVG switch to illustrator, make compound path, > open in Atom, copy and paste into Livecod… and verbalize the gotchas like > "if your path doesn't start with "m" then it wont' work… be sure to select > between the quotes… you don't need all that code at the top. Etc." > > > > > > > > So if one did make such a screen cast. Where would it go > > > > > > > > We are not talking about issues/problems or work around, but just things > that actually do work but which may be obscure. > > > > > > > > BR > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 _______________________________________________ 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