[UI] FillStyles in borders

[Gary Chambers]

Aye, clipping is another matter though (would want the "interior" of a border to not be drawn, for performance and not having to wory about draw-order/translucency issues).

Gary

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> [mailto:ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of Igor Stasenko
> Sent: 27 June 2008 3:35 PM
> To: Squeak's User Interface
> Subject: Re: [UI] FillStyles in borders
> 
> 
> 2008/6/27 Gary Chambers <gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com>:
> > Perhaps a "clean" model coul;d be something for Pharo...
> >
> > Maybe borders could be modelled via a decorator pattern to do 
> away with some of these special cases.
> > (think fillWith: fillStyle clippingTo: generalClipShape)The 
> border (itself a morph) being a decoration of the morph... or 
> maybe not called morph in a generalised framework, though 
> interpreted that way for Morphic support...
> >
> > Then again, to go the full-hog, the "ordinates" idea should 
> cover all bases (with adaptation to Morphic).
> >
> > Just a thought.
> >
> 
> Btw, i was wrong: there is a 'generic' shape drawing primitives in
> BalloonEngine. They used mostly to draw arbitrary Bezier shapes. For
> instance, an SVGMorph using it to draw any SWG graphic - be it a set
> of lines/curves or anything else.
> 
> It would be interesting, how this can be adopted to draw anything. So,
> we could have few primitives which draw every bit on screen.
> 
> 
> > Gary.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
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