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unname4798 wrote: March 17th, 2026, 12:37 pm Try Actual Window Manager's rotate feature. It allows to rotate window's to any angle, including and not limited to 45 degrees.

Thanks, I was hoping for something cheaper, but I'll keep that in mind!

Right now it's impossible to do this in Golly without using Lua.


Thanks for the suggestions! I'm willing to do a little Lua programming if necessary --- do you have any suggestion where to start?


Instead, use LifeViewer (click SHOW IN VIEWER ) which has the ability of camera rotation:

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Is there a way to view a Golly screen rotated 45 degrees, maybe using overlays? I've got a CA which draws square knots, etc., on a diamond grid:

square-column.png

(I manually screenshotted and rotated this picture)

and I'm really hoping there's a way to watch it evolve without having to keep ...

I'm not sure where the best place is to post this, but the icon-exporter.py and icon-importer.py scripts provided with Golly 4.3 do not work on my Windows 11 machine with Python 3.12.4. I've found a couple of things that need fixing:

1) The "U" flag to open does not seem to be accepted anymore.
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Would it be possible to make all saved pattern files accessible via Files?


Also, opening patterns from Files would be nice. (I have been unable to open the downloaded patterns (of the Book) using Golly on iPad. )


Ditto for rule files! I'd like to be able to edit them directly on my iPad ...