The arrow length and half widths may be floating point

[DarwinNE]

Hi to all, In some cases, a fine control over the length and width of arrows would be beneficial. Currently, those values can only be integer, that is a pity!

Version 0.24.7 should be able to parse double precision values for that (yet without letting the user only employ integer values). A complete support should be available for the successive version.

[DanteCpp]

Hi @DarwinNE, in order to draw double precision arrows, the GraphicsInterface.java interface should be updated. Consequently also its implementations must be updated.

About the swing implementation a possible solution is here.

Cheers, Dante.

[DarwinNE]

Hi @DanteCpp, yes, I agree with you. What I would like to do is however to integrate progressively the change in format. For example, this is not parsed in version 0.24.6:

LI 30 40 110 40 0
FCJ 3 0 3 2.6 0 0

So, here is the roadmap:

1. Version 0.24.7 will parse that code showing an acceptable result (for example rounding up the size to 3 instead of 2.6).
2. Version 0.24.8 will show the correct result and will let the user enter a non-integer value.

Therefore, the editing will be available only when versions able to understand the new format are widespread. Apart the obvious GraphicsInterface.java interface, all classes handling export towards a vector file format have to be updated.

Cheers, D.

[DarwinNE]

Hi I implemented the first part of that issue, so now a non integer size is still recognized and the size is rounded up.

BTW, I had to change the three classes where the arrows can be present (PrimitiveBezier.java, PrimitiveComplexCurve.java and PrimitiveLine.java), so this suggested me that a little bit of refactoring could be beneficial to obtain a more compact code. I will probably work towards that in the next few days.

Cheers, D.

[DarwinNE]

I am assigning the remaining work to the FidoCadJ 0.24.8 milestone.

[DarwinNE]

I think we can close this issue now.