Automated Drawing

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Sat Mar 21 14:13:37 EDT 2015


On 21/03/15 17:35, Jim Hurley wrote:
>>> Automated Drawing
>>>
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>> On 21/03/15 17:09, Richmond wrote:
>>> On 21/03/15 13:57, Jim Hurley wrote:
>>>>> Message: 21
>>>>> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 09:02:23 +0200
>>>>> From: Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com <http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode>
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>>>>> I set up a little stack with THIS in a button:
>>>>>
>>>>> on mouseUp
>>>>>     choose pencil tool
>>>>>     drag from 100,100 to 200,200
>>>>> end mouseUp
>>>>>
>>>>> and it drew me a jolly diagonal line . . . super!
>>>>>
>>>>> HOWEVER
>>>>>
>>>>> I wonder if it is possible to do something like THIS:
>>>>>
>>>>> drag for 100 pixels at 60 degrees
>>>>>
>>>>> probably not, BUT ??????
>>>>>
>>>>> Richmond.
>>>>>
>>>> Of course:
>>>>
>>>> on mouseUp
>>>>      startTurtle
>>>>      setHeading 60
>>>>      forward 100
>>>> end mouseUp
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You have in a matter of seconds made me feel totally stupid as my
>>> whole question is geared
>>> towards an interface I am designing to control a USB-tethered turtle.
>>>
>>> Thank you for the great help.
>>>
>>> Richmond.
>> Possibly NOT as stupid as all that:
>>
>> "button "Button": execution error at line 2 (Handler: can't find
>> handler) near "startTurtle", char 1"
>>
>> Richmond.
> You need the Turtle Graphics library: http://jamesphurley.com/Revolution.html
>
> Jim
>
>
>

Aaaaah, Thank you very much.

AND, should I decided to roll your library into a standalone what do I 
have to do re attribution,
licensing, and so on?

Richmond.




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