RE: Drawing an angled box

From: Fine, Valeri <fine_at_bnl.gov>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:24:21 -0400

What about

http://root.cern.ch/root/html522/TPolyLine.html

" . . .
One can draw the contour of the polyline or/and its fill area  . . . "

Best Regards

                         Valeri Fine

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-roottalk_at_root.cern.ch [mailto:owner-roottalk_at_root.cern.ch]
On
> Behalf Of Tom Roberts
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 5:50 PM
> To: 'ROOT Talk'
> Subject: [ROOT] Drawing an angled box
>
> I have a need to draw a colored rectangle with arbitrary orientation
on
> the screen; TBox does not do that. I do not need lines around the
edge,
> so it is tempting to use a big fat line. Unfortunately, linewidth is
> specified in pixels, and widths greater than about 80 pixels don't
work.
> The first is easily handled with a coordinate conversion, but the
second
> means I have to draw multiple lines, a much bigger complexity.
>
> Is there a good way to do this?
>
> The base data I start with are: Xcenter, Ycenter, width,
> height, angle, color. The first 4 are in user coordinates;
> angle is in degrees; color is R,G,B.
>
>
> Tom Roberts
Received on Thu Mar 12 2009 - 23:24:28 CET