Conflicting paths

[Jim Hurley]

Hi Richard,

I think I'm missing something.

Why construct the circle  (or ellipse) by setting points of a  graphic when the graphic oval tool produces a much better result?

No matter how many points I use when I set the points of a graphic, I still get jaggies.

P.S.

I tried to include a sample stack from Dropbox but I keep getting "No such card"

I tried in the msg box:

go  url "https://www.dropbox.com/s/pq4lrjftumx4mym/EllipseInAbox.rev"

And I get "no such card"

I used to be able to do this--like so many other things.

Jim

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> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:07:30 -0700
> From: Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
> To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: Conflicting paths
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> Mark Wieder wrote:
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>> Jacque-
>> 
>> Thursday, July 10, 2014, 5:10:40 PM, you wrote:
>> 
>>> Mark Wieder recently added points to the standard graphic objects. But
>>> until that gets into the engine, I can't think of an easy way to create
>>> them.
>> 
>> That should be in the next release of LC 6.7. Ovals aren't included
>> yet because I hadn't figured out how to deal with them at that point.
>> If my latest pull request can get accepted before the next release
>> then you'll be able to use the effective points of ovals as well.
> 
> A circle is defined as an infinite number of points a given distance 
> from a given point.
> 
> Of course you won't be returning an infinite number of points, but even 
> every pixel might be a bit much for some needs.
> 
> How will you determine the level of granularity to use in returning 
> those points?
> 
> Could it be adjustable by the user?
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