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by richmond62
Sat May 04, 2024 9:03 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Exporting text to SVG
Replies: 10
Views: 153

Re: Exporting text to SVG

And this in Inkscape:
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So, just to see how far things would stretch I tried this:
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And got this in Inkscape:
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So, NO, I am sorry, that does not "do it for me". :?
by richmond62
Sat May 04, 2024 9:02 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Exporting text to SVG
Replies: 10
Views: 153

Re: Exporting text to SVG

Wondering if the thing took umbrage at my complex font I thought I would try this:
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Using an extremely 'pedestrian' font.

I got this in a browser:
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by richmond62
Sat May 04, 2024 8:47 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Exporting text to SVG
Replies: 10
Views: 153

Re: Exporting text to SVG

And so: - Screenshot 2024-05-04 at 10.44.35.png - on mouseUp put fld "f1" into tText put fld "fHeader" into tHeader put fld "fTextStart1" into tTextStart1 put the textFont of fld "f1" into fld "fTextStart2" put fld "fTextStart2" into tTextStart2 put fld "fTextStart3" into tTextStart3 put the textSiz...
by richmond62
Fri May 03, 2024 7:09 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Exporting text to SVG
Replies: 10
Views: 153

Re: Exporting text to SVG

Oh, Bernd: I almost love you: and the thing that prevents that is the frustration I feel from wrestling with a robot for about 4 hours. 8)
by richmond62
Fri May 03, 2024 5:35 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Exporting text to SVG
Replies: 10
Views: 153

Re: Exporting text to SVG

Cripes: the robot just suggested code containing this:

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   export snapshot from rect (0,0,400,100) of fld "tempField" to file tFilePath & ".svg" as SVG
by richmond62
Fri May 03, 2024 5:28 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: ChatGPT and LiveCode
Replies: 32
Views: 267411

Re: ChatGPT and LiveCode

No they are not. I am a LC programmer and i actually tried LC on GPT4.
I apologise. 8)
by richmond62
Fri May 03, 2024 5:27 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Exporting text to SVG
Replies: 10
Views: 153

Re: Exporting text to SVG

OK, OK, OK: After 25 "cycles" with ChatGPT 4 I am still getting a line of question marks instead of: - Screenshot 2024-05-03 at 19.25.32.png - I have typed 'Over use of quotation marks" 15 times; each time it has corrected that (but does NOT 'remember'). Tries the same code modifications round and r...
by richmond62
Fri May 03, 2024 3:47 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Exporting text to SVG
Replies: 10
Views: 153

Re: Exporting text to SVG

This is obviously "off" as I would expect an SVG file containing text to look something like this: <svg width="201.402" height="76.101" viewBox="0 0 201.402 76.101" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g id="svgGroup" stroke-linecap="round" fill-rule="evenodd" font-size="9pt" stroke="#000" stroke-wid...
by richmond62
Fri May 03, 2024 3:27 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Exporting text to SVG
Replies: 10
Views: 153

Re: Exporting text to SVG

Not really . . .
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by richmond62
Fri May 03, 2024 3:09 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Exporting text to SVG
Replies: 10
Views: 153

Exporting text to SVG

If one could export text from a field in LiveCode to an SVG image this would result in a scaleable image of text that could be fully portable without end-users having to have access to the originating font . . . https://github.com/danmarshall/google-font-to-svg-path - Screenshot 2024-05-03 at 17.18....
by richmond62
Thu May 02, 2024 7:29 pm
Forum: Made With LiveCode
Topic: Devawriter Pro
Replies: 20
Views: 10112

Re: Devawriter Pro

And version 5.1.2 is much, much better:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/jw3gmicv ... kkv2r&dl=0
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by richmond62
Thu May 02, 2024 3:34 pm
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: Where is stack "revNewScriptEditor"?
Replies: 7
Views: 175

Re: Where is stack "revNewScriptEditor"?

Anyone know what it is for?
I would suppose it is a template, and a clone of it is made for each script editor an end-user 'calls' to fill with code.
by richmond62
Thu May 02, 2024 3:09 pm
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: Where is stack "revNewScriptEditor"?
Replies: 7
Views: 175

Re: Where is stack "revNewScriptEditor"?

This stack
Which stack?

stack "revNewScriptEditor" or

stack "revNewScriptEditor 1"
by richmond62
Thu May 02, 2024 2:11 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Cursor visibility problem
Replies: 8
Views: 217

Re: Cursor visibility problem

Here is something to amuse yourself with:
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by richmond62
Wed May 01, 2024 7:10 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: [ANN] Release LiveCode 10.0.0 DP-8
Replies: 1
Views: 190

Re: [ANN] Release LiveCode 10.0.0 DP-8

Can you tell me when the new GUI will be present?
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