Hi, Jerry- Thinking more about your proposal, how about instead of a square, you call it 'regularPoly', and add a parameter to indicate the number of sides. So, you'd have:
<regularPoly cx='30' cy='50' sides='4' length='15' /> That way you could have a broadly applicable element that lets you easily create regular polygons, a commmon use case which can be rather tricky to do, and you get some semantics out of the deal. An equilateral triangle would be 3 sides, a pentagon 5, a hex 6, octogon 8, etc. I'd further propose that there be a 'rotation' attribute, with values '0' or '1'; '0' would mean that the edge would be parallel to the x-axis, '1' would mean that one of the corners would be pointing up instead (that is, a line between the centerpoint and one of the vertices would be parallel to the y-axis), like so: <regularPoly cx='100' cy='50' sides='6' edge='15' rotation='1' /> There could be a DOM API to locate the x/y-coordinates of the corner points, and you could use markers at those points, too. See, I told you I was missing the big picture! :) I think that this would be extremely useful. Regards- Doug p.s. If I were going to be crazy, I would say that you could set sides='1' and get a circle with a circumference equal to the edge length. doug . schepers @ vectoreal.com www.vectoreal.com ...for scalable solutions. | Jerrold Maddox wrote: | | | Has there ever been a discussion of adding square to Basic Shapes? | For instance, following the way circle is done: | | cx = | "<http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/types.html#DataTypeCoordinate><co | ordinate>" | The x-axis coordinate of the center of the square. | | cy = | "<http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/types.html#DataTypeCoordinate><co | ordinate>" | The y-axis coordinate of the center of the square. | | side = | "<http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/types.html#DataTypeLength><length>" | The length of the side of a square. | | If there was, why was it rejected? | If there wasn't, could it be considered? | | I would find is very useful to keep the proportions the same | when I use relative sizes for the dimensions of shapes. | | Jerry | -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 2/3/2005 ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
