On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 7 Feb 2000, Lars Clausen wrote:
>> I also noticed that the arrowheads aren't quite good. Some of them
>> (e.g. filled halfhead and filled diamond) has the line sticking out the
>> front, the others have the arrow going way ahead of the handle. It's
>> not quite easy to get them to actually end at the handle and stop
>> drawing the whatever earlier, but we'll have to do something about it.
>
> As you said, it's not easy. Part of the problem is that the arrow is just
> drawn on top of the line. This means you can't just move the arrow
> backwards, because then the line would cover the arrow tip.
>
> We would need to change all arrow users to subtract some
> (arrow-dependent) length from the endpoints of the lines when using
> arrows.
And that's not even quite easy. Consider arcs and beziers. Maybe this is
really a job for the renderer?
-Lars is almost done with putting properties on the standard objects
--
Lars R. Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause) H�rdgrim of Westfield
"I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your
right to say it." --Evelyn Beatrice Hall
