Vector images?

[Richmond]

On 29/10/15 22:35, Scott Rossi wrote:
> SVG is LiveCode 8 widgets only.  AFAIK, in 8 the current "built in" vector graphic offering is characters from the FontAwesome font, and while you and I might be comfortable copying points from SVG files into LiveCode, I think you'd agree that's not exactly the best user experience. :-)
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> Regards,
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> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media UX/UI Design
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Copying points . . . cripes: where does one get at a vector image's 
points outwith LiveCode to copy them.

And, on Linux at least, as copying stuff both to-and-from LiveCode is at 
least a two-step procedure

[How I copy code from the scriptEditor into my email client and/or 
Firefox: copy text, paste into a text editor,
copy from the text editor, paste into Thunderbird/Firefox]

this is unbelievably labour intensive and, frankly, primitive.
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"Just for fun" I downloaded this: 
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Sample-image.svg

opened it in Inkscape, and . . . wondered what to do then.

Gosh, I haven't had as much fun as when I tried to buy a carpet from an 
Afghani in the souk in Jeddah with no Pashto, Farsi or Arabic.

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Quite honestly I feel that until one can import vector images just the 
same as one imports
JPG and PNG images via the menu system things are not acceptable 
vis-a-vis vector images.

It would also be nice, although that may be expecting too much, if the 
"export snapshot"
could export snapshots from vector objects as vector images.

Richmond.