How do I script for the effect of menu item "Reshape Graphic"

[Richard Gaskin]

Jim Hurley wrote:
>> Those are the markerPoints. They give the corners of the little shape
>> used for the marker. 
> 
> Thanks Jeanne. That was very helpful.
> 
> I see what my problem was. I was setting the MarkerDraw property to 
> true, but  there were no marker points to be drawn until I had called 
> Reshape Graphic from the Object menu.
> 
> Apparently, if the marker points are empty, Reshape Graphic constructs a 
> small 33 point closed, filled polygon to simulate a blackened circle.
> 
> I would like to see how RR does this but I have forgotten how to peek at 
> a RR menu script. Could you refresh my memory?

Marker points are a tease if what you're looking for is the equivalent 
of SuperCard's editPoints property, as the engine's marker points can be 
seen but do not respond to clicks.

You could dig into Rev scripts with devolution easily enough, but the 
scripted implementation has some unusual aspects to its behavior.  Also, 
for even someone as experienced as yourself, we find that it's not 
straightforward to implement, esp. compared with SuperCard's one-liner.

It was a cool hack as a workaround before Rev owned the engine, but now 
that they own it there's a request to raise the bar to implement the 
behavior in the engine natively to allow us to build things on the order 
of SuperCard's SampleDraw (or MacDraw or any basic drawing environment):

<http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=624>


If such drawing environments are of interest and you need to present 
them in scrolling document windows, you may also be interested in:

<http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=623>

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