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From: s8925188@mqcomp.mqcc.mq.OZ (Philip Craig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Arrows at the end of lines...
Summary: Can use sectors for arrow-heads.
Keywords: MacDraw, arrowheads, sectors
Message-ID: <397@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz>
Date: 16 Aug 90 09:50:41 GMT
References: <1320@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>
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Reply-To: s8925188@mqcomp.mq.oz (Philip Craig)
Organization: Macquarie University, School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics
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In article <1320@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> legg@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Christian Legg) writes:
>  I'd like to be able to draw arrow heads on the end of lines, just as
>Mac Draw allows one to do. I have thought of doing this with the use of
>rotated triangles copied into regions but am now wondering if there is
>any other (and maybe less memory consuming) way to do this. Alternatively,
>is there any code in the public domain that can do these sort of things?

I know MacDraw 1.9.5 used to do this by drawing an arc out of a circle.
If you zoomed up you could see the curve on the arrowheads.

The arc is good because you can cheaply (speed + memory) specify a curve
and have the toolbox fill it in (with PaintArc or FillArc).
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