SVG to image

[Klaus major-k]

Hi Brian,

> Am 17.09.2018 um 06:06 schrieb Brian Milby via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
> Jonathan's stack is very cool.  I wasn't minimizing the work in the engine
> though, just pointing out that particular images would need to be tested to
> see which method provides the needed results.  There can be significant
> differences in the object size depending on which version is used (path,
> full SVG, compiled SVG) - and it isn't always what you would expect.  Most
> of the time, the compiled SVG is the smallest and since support is built
> into the engine it would be a good choice where the particular image
> supports it.
> 
> I'll need to take your stack/widget and see how what it generates compares
> to conversions from the source svg file (for the Font Awesome stuff).
> Since you are adding back information that was stripped when converting to
> an icon, my guess is that the results should be pretty much the same.
> 
> @Klaus - have you thought about just using the svg icon widget instead of a
> button?  I've done that in my SvgIconTool stack and used a behavior to make
> it behave somewhat like a button would (hilite on mouseDown, etc.).

sometimes I don't need a workaround but just an answer to what I am asking.
And this has already been answered some esoteric replies ago. :-)

Thank you!

> Brian
> 
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 7:25 PM hh via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> BoundingBox widget / Compile iconPath to image
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 
>> The real point that came up here is how to get the bounding
>> box of an SVG path that is used as iconPath of the svgIcon
>> widget. With that it is simple to prepare the path as input
>> for drawingSVGcompile.
>> 
>> I wrote this evening a widget that computes the bounding box.
>> 
>> A demo stack, incl. an installer button for this "BB widget",
>> shows the 35 lines of script (incl. the SVG template) needed
>> to do the steps for "compile iconPath to image" described
>> above. See
>> 
>> http://livecodeshare.runrev.com/stack/900
>> 
>> Conversion via JavaScript is of course (currently) better as
>> drawingSVGCompile. Jonathan Lynch showed this technique to
>> the community before a year or so, and there are some stacks
>> on "Sample Stacks/revOnline" that use this technique.
>> 
>> DrawingSVGCompile is (as Mark wrote) still beta.
>> On the other hand it does a pretty good job with complicated
>> but not-too-complex SVGs, e.g. the "postscript-tiger".

Best

Klaus

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