The coming of SVG

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Fri Nov 3 16:14:01 EDT 2017


On 11/3/17 1:41 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
> As I said one of the goals of this control would eventually be to 
> replace the image object - so at some point (all being well) you will be 
> able to do:
> 
>    set the filename of <insertcontrolname> "foo" to "foo.png"
>    set the filename of <insertcontrolname> "foo" to "foo.gif"
>    set the filename of <insertcontrolname> "foo" to "foo.jpg"
>    set the filename of <insertcontrolname> "foo" to "foo.png"
>    ...
> 
> Or
> 
>    set the content of <insertcontrolname> "foo" to tPngData
>    ...
> 
> At this point, describing the control as a 'vectorImage' might also seem 
> confusing.


It's short for "thing that can handle vectors or images". 
VectorsOrImages -> Vector/Image -> VectorImage -> vi.

We *will* get an abbreviation, right?

;)

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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