I just discovered in Dir 8.5 and MX(9) that 'auto distort' is not working properly when generating more than 90 bitmaps.
I don't have D7 installed any more, or I would test that. My guess is that this is an old bug, and that it hasn't been fixed in MX 2004. Steps to repro: New bitmap member, draw a circle with a small mark at '12 oclock' Select all Click 'rotate 90' four times Menu -> Xtras -> Auto Distort Generate (anything up to) 90 new members Actual result - Full 360 rotation is represented in the generated sequence. Now, try the same again, but this time generate 91 (or more) members Expected result - the last member should be look almost exactly the same as the first one - a full 360 degree rotation. Actual result - Seems to get to about 280 degrees of rotation by the last member, rather than the full 360. (Rough guess) Screwing up at 90 hints at some less-than-smooth trigonometry under the hood, although this issue is not peculiar to bitmap rotation: 'Warp' also has a similar issue. (Didn't try 'skew' or 'perspective'). Another thing when doing 'auto distort' - if you use 'rotate right' (the one with the 'clockwise' icon) the generated sequence is *counterclockwise*. If you use 'rotate left', the generated sequence is clockwise. (This has been 'broken' for as long as I remember, and remains counter intuitive). Workaround (hah!) is to use imaging lingo (slower, and requires coding experience). Anyone written a tool miaw to make 'auto distort' obsolete? (I also noticed that 'auto filter' slipped out of MX without a murmur. I actually had this working at one time, but it was pretty horrible. I think it's a shame we can't use 'filter bitmap' in imaging lingo.). You might not think anyone uses 'auto distort', but I do, especially when I am teaching, because it's a quick way of getting an animated series of bitmaps together. Brennan [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
