On Wed, 9 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi,
>
> wouldn't it be nice to have fallbacks in RenderOps, lika a DrawArrowFunc,
> which would only be called, when set. Otherwise lines could be used.
>
> the same way you could think of other fallbacks, for recangles, lines, if
> there would be a DrawPointFunc, etc. this way you could implement a new
> renderer with only implementing a very basic set of functions, eg a line.
Interesting idea -- have drawRectangle, drawPolyline etc fall back to
drawLine could be useful. But for arrowheads, it would require a very
different approach, since the arrow information is still separate from the
line information.
> i think this way it would be very easy, for example to write graphic
> format renderers.
That would help get a trivial renderer up.
-Lars
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