Re: VCL LineInfo dotlen and dashlen question

Hi again,

Am 09.03.2016 um 10:52 schrieb Armin Le Grand:
> Hi,
>
> Am 08.03.2016 um 23:52 schrieb Chris Sherlock:
> > Quick ping to the ML - can anyone advise me on the purpose of these 
> > functions?
> >
> > Before I forget, there’s also GetDistance as well.
>
> Nothing complicated, just access methods to read the values.
>
> A line is defined as:
>
> (dotLen, distance) * numDot, distance (dashLen, distance) * numDash
>
> Means: numDot dots with dotLen, followed by numDash dashes with 
> DashLen, all seperated by distance-gaps.

One error here - it starts with the dashes, not the dots.
It then gets repeated (plus one distance)

> > I’m assuming that GetDashLen is the length of each individual dash in 
> > the dashed line, GetDotLen is the length of each individual dot in a 
> > dotted line and GetDistance is the length of the distance between 
> > dashes and dots.
> >
> > I’d just like to confirm this, because if so then there’s an odd bug 
> > I think Stephan van den Akker and myself have uncovered in a VCL unit 
> > test that Stephan added (not *caused* by Stephan, but uncovered).
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > > On 5 Mar 2016, at 12:25 PM, Chris Sherlock 
> > > <chris.sherlock79@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Can anyone tell me the different between GetDotLen and GetDashLen in 
> > > LineInfo?
> > >
> > > You can have a situation where there are dashes and dots in lines, 
> > > so does that affect anything?
>
> Of course. Open LO, draw a line, choose '3 Dashes 3 Dots' as LineStyle.
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Chris
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> HTH!
>
> Sincerely,
> Armin
>
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