Oval Bug in iOS

[Scott Rossi]

Roger:

It really shouldn't make any difference how the oval is scaled, unless
there's some newly introduced bug in LC or some incompatibility in the
latest Xcode.  Asking the obvious: are you sure the settings on your oval
are startAngle of 0 and arcAngle of 360?

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX Design




On 9/21/12 3:20 PM, "Roger Guay" <irog at mac.com> wrote:

>Scott, you are absolutely right . . . your stack works just fine in iOS,
>but mine does not. And the reason? my script is something like the
>following:
>
>on growOval
>	put the loc of grc OvalThing into theloc
>	lock screen
>	add 2 to the width of grc Ovalthing
>	add 2 to the height of grc OvalThing
>	set the lock of grc OvalTHing to theloc
>	unlock screen
>end growOval
>
>Whereas your script did the following:
>
>put the rect of grc ovalThing into theRect
>decrease the first 2 items of theRect and increase the second 2 items of
>theRect
>set the rect of grc ovalThing to theRect
>
>I've determined that locking the screen has no effect, so I have to
>assume my method of adjusting width, height and then the loc, results in
>the small sector missing problem.
>
>So, bottom line: your method is superior, but I wonder if my method
>should work as well, and is this therefore a bug?
>
>BTW, my other problem with mobile not working was that I had been trying
>to use iPad Simulator 6.0. Selecting simulator 5.0 works. And apparently
>with LiveCode 5.5.2 and Xcode 4.5,
>the "Location of developer root for iOS 4.0 and above" is empty in the
>Mobile Support Preferences. So now my remaining problem is why does
>simulator 6.0 not work.
>
>Thanks very much for your help, Scott.
>
>Roger 
>
>
>
>On Sep 20, 2012, at 4:30 PM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
>
>> If I understand what you're describing, I'm not seeing it here in the
>> simulator (LC 5.5.1, OS X).  I used this test stack (execute in your
>> message box):
>> go url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/ovaltest.livecode"
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Scott Rossi
>> Creative Director
>> Tactile Media, UX Design
>
>
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