Great idea! I'd like to see that happen. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org
> On May 13, 2016, at 4:19 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami <bra...@hindu.org> > wrote: > > SVG widget, despite limitations at the moment, is awesome making icons. No > more PNG's that go "all bust up" if you resize them… > > > > Go to iconfinder.com… download what you want as svg. > > > > Note that there are cases where the svg is in several paths. So if you open > in Illustrator, select all and make compound path, save and *then* use that > in the SVG widget… it works.. even unexpectedly where you may have e.g. 3 > dots that you would think must be independent paths… > > > > My suggestion is that you might better expose that tip on making compound > paths. > > > > Which then leads my question on user contributions channels. Let's say we > discover something useful that we feel is really buried in terms of what > newbies would need and might be frustrated trying to find. > > > > How does one best get that into the mix of documentatin/tutorials. Another > useful channel I see is YouTube itself… lots of people posting things like > "How to do this in Outlook" 3 minutes, max > > > > But it is fragmented. > > > > We do a lot of small tech screen casts internally and it would be trivioal > for me or many others to start recording video and just do a "Up and Running > with SVG Icon" 2 minutes, open stack, drag SVG icon out. Switch to browser, > download SVG switch to illustrator, make compound path, open in Atom, copy > and paste into Livecod… and verbalize the gotchas like "if your path doesn't > start with "m" then it wont' work… be sure to select between the quotes… you > don't need all that code at the top. Etc." > > > > So if one did make such a screen cast. Where would it go > > > > We are not talking about issues/problems or work around, but just things that > actually do work but which may be obscure. > > > > BR > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
