Points of Regular Polygon
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Tue Nov 29 14:09:14 EST 2016
Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> Oddly enough, that may have uncovered a bug in LC 9 dp3 . . .
>
> I thought I would set the points of a polygon graphic to the points
> of the regular polygon graphic that I had exported into a scrolling
> list field.
>
> But when I selected 'Polygon Graphic' from the Menu/Object/New
> Control/Polygon Graphic
> (Mac OS 10.7.5: yeah, yeah, I know, 'tisn't supported for LC 9: go
> and try it on a newer Mac running Mac OS Rocky Mountain) and no
> polygon graphic appeared on my stack.
>
> To contextualise this: there is no problem if I select 'regualr
> polygon graphic'.
An irregular polygon has no inherent shape; its points must be drawn by
the user.
When I choose that menu item (in v9.0 dp3 on Ubuntu) the tool changes to
graphic polygon, and allows me to draw it out as expected.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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