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Canvas arcs

Postby Alant » Sat Dec 17, 2016 12:20 am

How can I draw a canvas arc given centre, radius, start angle and finish angle?

http://wiki.flightgear.org/Canvas_Nasal ... SmallCCWTo shows how to draw an arc between two points, but does not seem very helpful. All the examples appear to be at 90 degree intervals, and everything seems to be in cartesian co-ordinates. For an arc I would like to set centre point, radius and angle instead with polar coordinates.

I need to be able to vary the angle at run-time.

TIA

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Re: Canvas arcs

Postby Thorsten » Sat Dec 17, 2016 8:39 am

shows how to draw an arc between two points, but does not seem very helpful.


No? Some trigonometry helps...

center: (c1, c2), radius R, start and stop angles (phi1, phi2)

p1 = (c1 + R * sin(phi1), c2 + R * cos(phi1)
p2 = (c1 + R * sin(phi2), c2 + R * cos(phi2)

-> draw arc from p1 and p2
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Re: Canvas arcs

Postby Alant » Sat Dec 17, 2016 10:31 am

Thanks Thorsten, but that seems rather excessive for what I had expected to find as a basic method.

Unless there is a undocumented polar co-ordinates method .I will have to do it that way.

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Re: Canvas arcs

Postby Thorsten » Sat Dec 17, 2016 10:37 am

You can write a wrapper and then you have a basic method... I have lots of self-defined drawing wrappers for what I need in my canvas code (among others curved arc with scale drawer routines).
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