Vector images?

[Richard Gaskin]

Brahmanathaswami wrote:

 > IMHO calling SVG "lower priority" this is again symptomatic of LC
 > Headquarters/Leadership, not realizing how significant "the
 > presentation layer" is  in today's world...
...
 > if we cannot include vector graphs in the mix  from the get go, then
 > Livecode is seen as incompetent for the job, even it that job may be,
 > later, a full enterprise suite of tools for management, database,
 > global business etc.

I think I'm missing something here.

We have vector graphics now as we've had for years, but we've been 
limited to a set of primitives that include ovals, polygons, rectangles, 
etc, but not Beziers or other more complex shapes, nor the ability to 
mix types like arc, line, and Bezier in a single path.

SGV supports this, and to reinforce the scope of benefit for exposing 
SGV data as a settable property for Skia to render, some of the issues 
Mark Talluto has reported were for raster images  - but the only reason 
he's using raster images at all is because he doesn't have SGV-style 
paths to work with which would give him the shapes he needs even more 
flexibly.

But here's where I'm confused:

When Trevor DeVore presented at our local LiveCode User Group meeting a 
couple months ago, he showed us a Widget that allowed him to put SVG 
data into it as easily as we set points in a polygon.

That seems very much like what you're looking for, and what Mark 
Talluto's looking for, and many others.

Was I dreaming?

I'd thought there was an SVGIcon Widget for that purpose, no?

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