Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-16 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-05-16 14:51, hh via use-livecode wrote: Yes, thanks. [You did probably test on Mac only. It's not worth to mix in the problem of linux (and Raspi) with blend modes/transparency here.] I don't recall seeing any bug reports about inks/transparency on Linux - could you elaborate? Anyway

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-16 Thread hh via use-livecode
Yes, thanks. [You did probably test on Mac only. It's not worth to mix in the problem of linux (and Raspi) with blend modes/transparency here.] Anyway, I updated my stack to a simple Theme-switcher, usable as tiny plugin and included it to post RaspberryPi stacks #89 ( http://forums.livecode.com/

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-16 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-05-15 21:11, Roger Eller via use-livecode wrote: I just looked in the dictionary of 6.7.5 (my daily driver), and only srcCopy concerns me, as it is the default for any image placed as a control. I also found an image that I had placed with addMax applied. This saved me the trouble of tak

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-16 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-05-15 21:21, hh via use-livecode wrote: Mark W. wrote: > and most of these legacy Blend Modes: > clear, noop, notSrcAnd, notSrcAndReverse, > notSrcCopy, notSrcOr, notSrcOrReverse, > notSrcXor, reverse, set, srcAnd, > srcAndReverse, srcCopy, srcOr, > srcOrReverse, srcXor, blend, addPin > a

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-16 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-05-15 22:05, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: "the modern era" Ah; such an awful pity that both Thee and Me have more important things to do; we could have such fun playing "semantic squash". Hehe - indeed, modern should have been 'modern'* with: * 'Modern' in the context

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-16 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-05-15 23:22, Alejandro Tejada via use-livecode wrote: This Skia feature named: Perlin Noise Shader could have this syntax: set the fractalperlinNoise of selobj to "0.05, 0.05, 4, 0.0" set the turbulenceperlinNoise of selobj to "0.05, 0.05, 4, 0.0" This Skia feature named: Blur Mask Filt

[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-15 Thread Alejandro Tejada via use-livecode
Richmond wrote: > "the modern era" > Ah; such an awful pity that both Thee and Me > have more important things to do; > we could have such fun playing > "semantic squash". Ok, lets play! but check this webpage before starting: https://skia.org/user/api/skpaint This Skia feature named: Perlin Nois

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-15 Thread hh via use-livecode
> Mark W. wrote: > SrcCopy is identical to blendSrcOver - the latter is its alpha-aware > counterpart. The engine makes no distinction between the two - except > on groups where it determines if the group should be rendered first > and then composited (blendSrcOver), or if its children should be >

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
"the modern era" Ah; such an awful pity that both Thee and Me have more important things to do; we could have such fun playing "semantic squash". Best, Richmond. On 5/15/17 10:50 pm, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: In this case it means when you take into account the number of globa

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-15 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
In this case it means when you take into account the number of global uses of the (now in the modern era) non-standard inks / blend modes we provide... Does that percentage justify the reimplementation effort and continued maintenance (particularly when they have been explicitly deprecated for y

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-15 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
SrcCopy is identical to blendSrcOver - the latter is its alpha-aware counterpart. The engine makes no distinction between the two - except on groups where it determines if the group should be rendered first and then composited (blendSrcOver), or if its children should be directly composites into

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
What does that word "fair" mean? I have always wondered whether it isn't a bit like "luck", something nebulous (c.f. "rights") to cover up a multitude of rather more difficult ideas. Richmond. On 5/15/17 10:01 pm, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode wrote: To be fair, the docs claim the legacy blend mod

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
So do I! Richmond. On 5/15/17 9:56 pm, Roger Eller via use-livecode wrote: Oh no! I use the legacy blendModes all the time! On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Alejandro Tejada via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Read about new developments in LiveCode open source and the

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-15 Thread hh via use-livecode
> Mark W. wrote: > > and most of these legacy Blend Modes: > > clear, noop, notSrcAnd, notSrcAndReverse, > > notSrcCopy, notSrcOr, notSrcOrReverse, > > notSrcXor, reverse, set, srcAnd, > > srcAndReverse, srcCopy, srcOr, > > srcOrReverse, srcXor, blend, addPin > > addOver, subPin, transparent > > ad

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-15 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Mark Waddingham wrote: On 2017-05-15 20:40, Alejandro Tejada via use-livecode wrote: Looks like Skia Graphics Library dropped support for some features and LC9 will not show anymore these types of gradients: 'XY', 'SqrtXY', 'Diamond' and 'Spiral' These are back in - Michael managed to get the

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-15 Thread Roger Eller via use-livecode
I just looked in the dictionary of 6.7.5 (my daily driver), and only srcCopy concerns me, as it is the default for any image placed as a control. I also found an image that I had placed with addMax applied. This saved me the trouble of taking it into Photoshop of Gimp to create the same effect. I

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-15 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
To be fair, the docs claim the legacy blend modes have been deprecated since LC 5! We've supported thm for quite a long time post-deprecation... On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 7:56 PM Roger Eller via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Oh no! I use the legacy blendModes all the time!

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-15 Thread Roger Eller via use-livecode
Oh no! I use the legacy blendModes all the time! On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Alejandro Tejada via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Read about new developments in LiveCode open source > > and the open source community in today's edition of > > the "This Week in LiveC

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-15 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-05-15 20:40, Alejandro Tejada via use-livecode wrote: Read about new developments in LiveCode open source and the open source community in today's edition of the "This Week in LiveCode" newsletter! Read issue #82 here: https://goo.gl/8HNhau Looks like Skia Graphics Library dropped suppo

[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-15 Thread Alejandro Tejada via use-livecode
> Read about new developments in LiveCode open source > and the open source community in today's edition of > the "This Week in LiveCode" newsletter! > Read issue #82 here: https://goo.gl/8HNhau Looks like Skia Graphics Library dropped support for some features and LC9 will not show anymore these

[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-15 Thread panagiotis merakos via use-livecode
Hi all, Read about new developments in LiveCode open source and the open source community in today's edition of the "This Week in LiveCode" newsletter! Read issue #82 here: https://goo.gl/8HNhau This is a weekly newsletter about LiveCode, focussing on what's been going on in and around t