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From: spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Line-thickness drawing attribute
Message-ID: <20310@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 3 Apr 91 00:34:22 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.155056.27758@decuac.dec.com> <24200@wehi.dn.mu.oz> <965@boing.UUCP>
Reply-To: spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <965@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
>In article <24200@wehi.dn.mu.oz> BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz writes:
>>Ah! Drawing - routines - that - need - to - be - available - and - aren't:
>>
>>Line thickness is needed.
>>
>>Lines that bend at nodes restart the line pattern instead of continuing it.
>>Thus you can't draw a patterned curve using small segements.
>
>What? Graphics.library does not restart the pattern  at line joins.
>Make sure you are not using a move.
>Move resets the pattern count, Draw does not, string your lines
>together with Draws.
>
>It is a new bug if it happens any other way.

Dale - the Draw() code was *really* confused about the rp->linpatcnt value
after drawing through cliprects. This is now fixed.

>
>
>-- 
>Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
>{uunet!cbmvax|pyramid}!amiga!boing!dale


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