Snapshot question

[Craig Newman]

Richard.

Intersting stuff.

When one first drags a roundRect from the toolbar, the PI has a field to enter a value for the “roundRadius” property. But after a rotation, where the graphic is now defined solely by its “points” property, the ability to get or set that property disappears. I suppose this makes sense.

And if one sets the roundRadius property to a value greater than the geometry of the graphic will allow, that is, the radius of the corners is greater than that which will ‘fit” onto the graphic itself, one gets a circle, though defined by points as opposed to the usual startAngle and arcAngle.

Craig

> On Jun 4, 2024, at 2:48 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Craig wrote:
>> The docs must be wrong. I just tested with all seven of the graphic
>> options in the tools palette, and they all rotate just fine.
> 
> I'd guess that Dictionary entry was written before July 7, 2007.
> 
> In the revcommonlibrary script you'll find the revRotatePoly command on lines 496 thru 532, with the comment block above it noting the date it was added.
> 
> On line 506 it gets the EFFECTIVE points for any graphic styles that doesn't innately have a points property.
> 
> On line 525 it changes the style of the target graphic object to polygon if needed.
> 
> Those two changes are not present in the older revRotatePolygonOld command listed just below it.
> 
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> Richard Gaskin
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