Doug Thanks for your long and thoughtful responses.
I agree about adding triangles and would really like to see then added to the spec. Ditto for regularPoly ( I am not sure if this should be in place of the triangles or not - the detail you suggest for triangles makes me think they should stand alone.) And yes, these things couldn't be added until SVG 1.3 or after so my request is either too late or too early. But what i am really interested in is keeping the proportions when relative sizes are used - I posted a suggestion earlier that something like x="10%" y="x(0.5)", so that y would always be half of x regardless for the proportions of the field they are in. The square is just a simple version of that which looks like it would be easy to do since it would be like the circle . How I face this day to day is that i work on a Mac with a cinema display (9x16) and on a PC with display in conventional proportions (4x5) and when use the full screen the relatively size images aren't consistent in shape. If there is another way to make them consistent, I would love to know about it. Jerry >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 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/
