Automated Drawing

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Sat Mar 21 11:12:16 EDT 2015


On 21/03/15 17:09, Richmond wrote:
> On 21/03/15 13:57, Jim Hurley wrote:
>>> Message: 21
>>> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 09:02:23 +0200
>>> From: Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:richmondmathewson at gmail.com>>
>>> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com 
>>> <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>
>>> Subject: Automated Drawing
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>>> I set up a little stack with THIS in a button:
>>>
>>> on mouseUp
>>>    choose pencil tool
>>>    drag from 100,100 to 200,200
>>> end mouseUp
>>>
>>> and it drew me a jolly diagonal line . . . super!
>>>
>>> HOWEVER
>>>
>>> I wonder if it is possible to do something like THIS:
>>>
>>> drag for 100 pixels at 60 degrees
>>>
>>> probably not, BUT ??????
>>>
>>> Richmond.
>>>
>>
>> Of course:
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>     startTurtle
>>     setHeading 60
>>     forward 100
>> end mouseUp
>>
>>
>
> You have in a matter of seconds made me feel totally stupid as my 
> whole question is geared
> towards an interface I am designing to control a USB-tethered turtle.
>
> Thank you for the great help.
>
> Richmond.

Possibly NOT as stupid as all that:

"button "Button": execution error at line 2 (Handler: can't find 
handler) near "startTurtle", char 1"

Richmond.




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