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| From | Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.acorn.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square |
| Date | 2019-11-16 12:21 +0000 |
| Organization | None |
| Message-ID | <5813d0c48ebasura@invalid.addr.uk> (permalink) |
| References | (5 earlier) <qqjgq3$dkd$1@solani.org> <5812df5497basura@invalid.addr.uk> <qqk9v8$ull$1@solani.org> <qqn8gi$q84$2@solani.org> <mpro.q11dta047jn0401u8.news@stevefryatt.org.uk> |
In article <mpro.q11dta047jn0401u8.news@stevefryatt.org.uk>, Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote: > On 15 Nov, Sebastian Barthel wrote in message > <qqn8gi$q84$2@solani.org>: > > One can ask: Why isn't there a TRIANGLE command or TRIANGLE FILL > > in the BASIC ? The functions exists. With this a RECTANGLE FILL > > ROTATE command is also a possibility. > The fact that PLOT exists, probably. You would also need > PARALLELOGRAM, ARC, SEGMENT and SECTOR, as well as DRAW variants > for "dotted", "no first" and "no last". The "background" and > "inverse" plot modes aren't supported by dedicated keywords, either. > In the end, there was presumably a tradeoff between making things > easy to remember and 'wasting' keyword tokens on the task -- there > are only a finite number of these available, after all. I would value a RECTANGLE FILL ROTATE command. Not too bothered about the other shapes. The rectangle/square is extremely versatile - a single line command to do this could save a lot of time. I take your point though Steve with the tradeoff - something I'm not knowledeable to argue with. Is it worth mentioning in the ROOL forum? Richard
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Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-12 14:05 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2019-11-12 23:04 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-14 16:24 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2019-11-14 19:29 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2019-11-15 21:26 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2019-11-15 22:23 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2019-11-15 22:31 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-16 14:05 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2019-11-16 19:47 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2019-11-18 20:02 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-11-16 00:39 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-16 12:21 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-11-17 10:04 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-17 13:50 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-17 14:19 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-11-17 14:21 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-17 15:34 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-11-17 16:25 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-18 16:17 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-18 16:55 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2019-11-16 11:48 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-16 14:21 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2019-11-18 20:04 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-19 14:48 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2019-11-19 20:26 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Brian Jordan <brian.jordan9@btinternet.com> - 2019-11-19 20:39 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2019-11-20 07:50 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2019-11-20 11:26 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2019-11-16 19:27 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-11-16 23:37 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2019-11-14 20:47 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2019-11-14 20:44 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-15 13:35 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-11-16 00:32 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-13 12:54 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-13 17:05 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2019-11-13 23:35 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2019-11-14 12:20 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-14 14:09 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-14 15:21 +0000
Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square news@sprow.co.uk - 2019-11-14 05:00 -0800
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