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2008/06/19
13.Shapes
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Designinig Shapes
You can design your own shapes by this dialog. This dialog will be shown by "Edit Shape" Button of the shape primitive. Note that the number of 'Shape' points are limited upto 60.
Making Shapes
Simply, left button press & dragging will make new bezier points. All points are connected by bezier cureves (Including from the last point to the start point if you choose "Fill" checkbox).
The Blue Rectangle point is the start point and blue circle points are intermediate points. Separated multiple path can be created if you make points after pressing the "New Path" button. The overlayed part will be inverted inside/outside of figure.

Editting Points
You can select a point by clicking the "Blue" points. Selected point is displayed by "Red" and bezier control points are also be shown. All blue/red points can be edit by mouse dragging. The two control points can be edit separately if you press&drag with "ShiftKey". Ctrl+drag also available for move the path without transform.
Add/Delete Points
"Del Point" button will delete a current focused point. Leftbutton-down& drag will add a point to after of current focused point.Shape Save/Load
Created Shapes can be save/load by "Save Shape" / "Load Shape" buttons. These shapes are saved as a .svg file that can be edited by 'Inkscape' or other svg editor (but confirmed only with 'Inkscape').
you can design new shape from scratch by 'Inkscape' but the .svg should be satisfy these conditions:
- the size should be 256x256 pix
- only the 'Path' commands are recognized. if you want to use 'Arc' or other, that sould be converted to 'Path'
- Only the path coodinates are used. Colors or other properties are ignored.
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