Conflicting paths

Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Sat Jul 12 15:42:02 EDT 2014


Jacque-

Saturday, July 12, 2014, 11:50:07 AM, you wrote:

> The original post needed to get the points of an oval in order to use
> them as a path for animating an object with the "move" command. It's
> likely the oval itself wouldn't even be displayed. Right now, ovals 
> don't have the points property, so you need to use a polygon, and thus,
> the attempts to contruct one that appeared to be oval.

> Soon ovals will have a points property, and these awkward attempts to
> reproduce them with polygons will no longer be necessary.

...and actually, if you calculate the points and store them in a
variable you don't even need a visible graphic. Just iterate through
the lines of the variable, setting the loc of the <whatever> to each
line as you go.

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-Mark Wieder
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