On May 11, 2013, at 5:13 AM, David Bovill <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Mike and Roger - seems like it works on OSX at least despite the > notes in the docs: > > To be used as a pattern on Mac OS systems, an image must be 128x128 pixels >> or less, and both its height and width must be a power of 2, however, in >> LiveCode version 2.7, this restriction was partially lifted and the engine >> will tile rectangular regions correctly with arbitrarily sized background >> patterns.To be used on Windows and Unix systems, height and width must be >> divisible by 8. To be used as a fully cross-platform pattern, both an >> image's dimensions should be one of 8, 16, 32, 64, or 128. I didn't read the docs, so I didn't know I couldn't do what I am, in fact, doing. >> However it works nicely on OSX now. I'm keeping the technique below as it > allows me to reposition the image within the oval by dragging it around - > but then when I want to keep it I will export the snapshot and then set the > backgroundpattern of the graphic. > > By the way I can't get the new syntax to work: > > > 1. >> >> New variants of the import snapshot and export snapshot commands have >> been added: import snapshot ... at size width, height >> export snapshot ... at size width, height >> > > The script editor does not like the syntax? I just use "import snapshot from rect". Seems to work every time for me . In fact, I don't even see this option of "at size width, height" in the dictionaries of 5.5.4 and 6.0. Roger _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
