Path: utzoo!utgpu!mnetor!george
From: george@mnetor.UUCP (George Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: A developer's view of the X fill policy
Message-ID: <4808@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 89 16:11:21 GMT
References: <8901031435.AA27362@adt.uucp> <8901031551.AA01302@EXPIRE.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: george@mnetor.UUCP (George Hart)
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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>    Given that wide lines are centered on the path, I'd say "inside"
>    should be whatever's inside and doesn't lie on the wide path.
>
>OK, now another question.  Wide lines in X are defined using the X
>fill rule, which you are now trying to make variable.  So, when you
>say "doesn't lie on the wide path", what fill rule is supposed to be
>used to determine the set of pixels comprising the wide line?

It would seem that specifying FillIncludingPath and not drawing the
path itself would suffice.

Incidentally, (in case anyone thinks that Jim's is an isolated case),
I face the same dilemma that Jim does trying to move existing software
from our current object based system to X.
-- 
Regards.....George Hart, Computer X Canada Ltd.

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