>Michael R. Maitzen wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I have been lurking for a while and I have not really done anything >> in Revolution yet but, as a long time HyperCard and SuperCard user, I >> was hoping to use it to make some cross platform applications. The >> application that I would like to tackle first requires giving users >> drawing capabilities and I don't see anywhere how to choose a line >> tool. All the drawing tools seem to revolve around making shapes. Is >> there a line tool other than the paint line tool? > >There's the line tool for creating a line graphic (second from the bottom on >the left of the Tools palette), and the polygon tool (third from the bottom, >on the left).
Since Revolution is itself is an application running under Metacard obviously a line tool can be provided to the user of a project but I don't understand how to do this from the on-line documentation. > > Also, something I could not figure out how to do in SuperCard was to >> zoom in or out of the drawing (card) to provide wider or narrower >> views of the drawing especially when it is larger than the screen. Is >> there some way to accomplish this that does not require resizing >> every graphic on the card? > >Not as such, although you might be able to use the Geometry Manager to >automate some of this. The magnify image property could possibly be useful >here too, depending on exactly what you want to do. The graphics that are made would all be draw or vector graphics, no bitmaps. I wondered if the Geometry Manager could be used for something like that but I will have to look it over more carefully before I can figure out how it can help. Thanks for the comments. -- Michael R. Maitzen Teleproduction Supervisor, ComTechLab Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) WWW page at http://comtechlab.iupui.edu/ _______________________________________________ improve-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/improve-revolution
