On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:
> On 2011-08-03 19:14-0400 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Andrew Ross
>> <andrewr...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've now properly implemented the rotate option in plarc and updated
>>> the documentation. I've also modified example 27 to provide a more
>>> rigorous test / demonstration of the plarc capabilities.
>>
>> I have updated the Cairo driver to support rotated arcs as well, as it
>> uses Cairo's arc primitive rather than drawing an arc as a polygon.
>
> Those results look much better than the equivalent polyline ones.
>
> I would always like qt to keep up with cairo and vice versa so I hope
> somebody is willing to do the same thing for the qt device driver.
> QPainter::drawArc documented at
> http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/qpainter.html#drawarc looks like it would
> be quite helpful.
>

I don't know Qt or the structure of the Qt driver well enough to make
the addition, but the Cairo implementation should provide a reasonable
example to work from for someone who does.  I think the SVG driver and
possibly others could have "native" rotated arc support as well.

Hez

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