Vector images?

[Ali Lloyd]

That seems sensible. You could file an enhancement request ;-)

To be honest it's more a case of "not everything has been done yet" than
"we think you ought to do it this long-winded way".

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 7:33 PM Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/10/15 20:33, Colin Holgate wrote:
> > Click on the star and you can choose from a long list of built in
> images. The dollar sign looking one is near the bottom.
> >
> > Failing that, you can open an SVG file in a text editor, and copy the
> path data part, to paste into the iconPath field in LiveCode.
> >
> > Now, they should add a Source option, which could do the retrieving of
> the path data for you. That would be handy.
>
> I am probably expecting too much: I was expecting the ability to import
> an svg file to be present in the
>
> File / Import as Control / Image file  menu item.
>
> And why, forbye, is that not the case? The way it is implemented is
> awkward, non-logical, and, frankly bloody-minded.
>
> R.
>
> >
> >
> >> On Oct 9, 2015, at 1:21 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 09/10/15 20:08, Colin Holgate wrote:
> >>> My guess is that it’s because it might have been a goal in the
> Kickstarter campaign. That may be why they added the SVG Widget. You should
> try it.
> >> Well, I did and could not for the life of me work out how it worked.
> >>
> >> I ended up with what looked like a Communist star, and no indication
> how I could import, for the sake of argument,
> >> a dollar sign in .svg format.
> >>
> >> Richmond.
> >>
> >>>> On Oct 9, 2015, at 12:57 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Why do I have a feeling that the ability to import vector images as
> vector graphics
> >>>> was meant to be one of the goals of the kickstarter?
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