i have been trying to draw a rounded rectangle with spacing in the border, but i cant seem to find a way to do this using the Canvas.RoundRect function, and i am not that good in maths to draw the edges myself, i can draw a rectangle with spacing using the Canvas.MoveTo and Canvas.LineTo functions, but i dont know how to make the edges rounded. Currently what i am doing is i make yellow rectangle at the place where i want to make the spacing in the border but the problem is when i am printing i have to directly draw on printer canvas and i have to draw on a transparent sheet, so a background color will cause problems. Anyone who can help me build a custom drawing routine or tell me how can i erase that area and still print on a transparent paper without any background color. The yellow background color is just for a preview, when i am drawing to a printer canvas the background is transparent.
See the image to know what i mean by spacing in the border line.
Thanks
You can exclude the gap by manipulating the clipping region of the current device context. Assuming that L, R, T and B are the coordinates of your yellow rectangle to make the gap, use the following code:
ExcludeClipRect(Canvas.Handle, L, T, R, B); // exclude the gap
Canvas.RoundRect(<whatever you already do here>);
SelectClipRgn(Canvas.Handle, 0); // reset the clipping region
You can draw your partial rounded rectangle yourself. Use MoveTo and LineTo for the straight portions, and use Arc for the corners.
The Arc function draws a portion of an ellipse. The first two pairs of coordinates to the function indicate the bounds of the ellipse. If you want the corners of your rectangle to be circular, then the ellipse is a circle, and X2 - X1 will equal Y2 - Y1. The second two pairs of coordinates indicate the starting and ending points on the circle; they'll be the same points you pass to MoveTo and LineTo for the straight portions. The arc is drawn counter-clockwise.
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I have a list view with "Hero" icons on the left. When I click a list item, it loads the next screen with the article text and the Hero image (which animates nicely/automatically to the correct spot on the 2nd screen).
I would have thought that was the "tough" part, but I'm now trying to get a curved shape as the top background of the 2nd screen. I would love to make it a drawn vector shape, as opposed to a bitmap and even have it drip/bounce onto the page, but at the moment...
I'm just trying to figure out how to:
draw a vector shape
have it as the background of a screen with other widgets on top (see purple curve on 2nd screen below)
I made a full sample for your curved shape in a gist here
I used CustomPainter to draw on a canvas then, with some geometric calculations, I achieved the curved shape.
Final result
How I draw it?
Before coding and on a Whiteboard I determined somethings:
My Canvas Area:
The canvas dimensions I need to draw that shape (which equals to Flutter widget's dimensions).
How and where my brush will move?
how means: what are the APIs I need to draw that shape on the canvas using the Path class.
e.g. lineTo() for a straight line, quadraticBezierTo() for a curve.
where means: Where are the points (coordinates) I need to draw the whole shape. (see yellow and green dots in the image above)
Points (coordinates) Calculations:
I used some geometric equations to calculate the coordinates. e.g. Point on a circle’s circumference
All of my calculations depend on the canvas size, that gives me a responsive shape.
Full sample here!
I am trying to implement a metal-backed drawing application where brushstrokes are drawn on an MTKView by textured square repeatedly along a finger position.
I am drawing this with alpha 0.2. When the squares are overlapped the color is added. How can I draw with alpha 0.2.
I think you need to draw the brush squares to a separate texture, initially cleared to transparent, without blending. Then draw that whole texture to your view with blending.
If you draw the brush squares directly to the view, then they will accumulate. After you draw square 1, it's part of the image. Metal can no longer distinguish it from anything else that was already there. So, when you draw square 2 overlapping it, it will blend with what's already there, including square 1.
I'm drawing squares along a circular path for an iOS application. However, at certain points along the circle, the squares start to go out of the circle's circumference. How do I make sure that the squares stay inside?
Here's an illustration I made. The green squares represent the positions I need the squares to actually be in. The red squares are where they actually appear given the following values for each square's upper-left corner:
x = origin.x + radius * cos(DEGREES_TO_RADIANS(angle));
y = origin.y + radius * sin(DEGREES_TO_RADIANS(angle));
Origin refers to the center of the circle. I have a loop that repeats this for every angle from 1 till 360 degrees.
EDIT: I've changed my design to position the centers of the squares along the circular path rather than their upper left corners.
why not just draw the centers of the squares along a smaller circle inside of the bigger one?
You could do the math to figure out exactly what the radius would have to be to ensure an exact fit, but you could probably trial and error your way there quickly too.
Doing it this way ensures that your objects would end up laid out in an actual circle too, which is not the case if you were merely making sure that one and only one corner of each square touched the larger bounding circle (that would create a slightly octagonal shape instead of a circle)
ryan cumley's answer made me realize how dumb I was all along. I just needed to change each square's anchor point to its center & that solved it. Now every calculated value for x & y would position every square's center exactly on the circular path.
Option 1) You could always find the diameter of the circle and then using Pythagorean Theorem, you could create a square that would fit perfectly within the circle. You could then loop through the square that was just made in the circle to create smaller squares, but I doubt this is what you are aiming for.
Option2) Find out what half of the length of one of the diagonals of the squares should be, and create a ring within the first ring. Then lay down squares at key points (like ever 30 degrees or 15 degrees, etc) along the inner path. Ex: http://i.imgur.com/1XYhoQ0.png
As you can see, the smaller (inner) circle is in the center of each green square, and that ensures that the corners of each square just touches the larger (outer) circle. Obviously my cheaply made picture in paint is not perfect, but mathematically it will work.
I am drawing CGPath which is not rectangle or square,and adding CGPath to CAShapeLayer. This CAShapeLayer's frame getting from CGPath using CGPathGetBoundingBox(path). So it will be rectangle or square. Now i want to set gradient color to layer but my path is not rectangle or square so it is not spreading gradient color equally in whole CGPath. Is there any way to set gradient color to CGPath or how can i set gradient color with angle?
Please refer screen shot to understand situation. Here white color indicates frame of CGPath and green colour, that is our drawn CGPath. At the bottom of CGPath you can see white gradient colour which is not distributed equally in CGPath.
The start and end points of a linear gradient are specified in points relative to the whole size of the layer, with (0,0) at the top left and (1,1) at the bottom right.
Therefore, to make a linear gradient at an angle, you simply need to set the start and end points appropriately. For example, If you used (0,0) and (1,1) as the start and end points, the gradient would run from the top left to the bottom right, at a 45 degree angle.
Working out the specific start and end points for your needs is therefore just a matter of trigonometry.
I would like to use UIBezierPath to create a polygon shape with rounded corners. I believe this will be possible using addCurveToPoint:controlPoint1:controlPoint2: and similar code to that found in http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/31859/Draw-a-Smooth-Curve-through-a-Set-of-2D-Points-wit, but I was wondering if there's any existing (or better) way to achieve this?
I should point out that this will need to be for any convex polygon (such as found in a voronoi diagram) and not just a rectangular shape.
You don't want addCurveToPoint. If you're using UIBezierPath, you want addArcWithCenter:radius:startAngle:endAngle:clockwise:
Here's what you do. Draw your rectangle. Figure out the corner radius you want. Draw circles in each corner, inset from each side by your corner radius. (the center of each corner circle will be inset from each corner by the corner radius in both x and y.) Then map out a sequence of 4 lines, connecting the points where your rectangle touches the circles in each corner.
Each arc will cover 90 degrees (pi/2, in radians.) The top right corner's are will range from 0 to pi/2. The top left corner's angle will start at pi/2 and go to pi. the bottom left corner's arc will range from pi to 3/2 pi. The bottom right arc's angle will range from 3/2 pi to 2pi.
You'll use a sequence of:
moveToPoint addLineToPoint -- first side
addArcWithCenter:radius:startAngle:endAngle:clockwise -- first
rounded corner
lineToPoint --second side, to beginning of next rounded corner
addArcWithCenter:radius:startAngle:endAngle:clockwise -- second
rounded corner
lineToPoint --third side, to beginning of next rounded corner
addArcWithCenter:radius:startAngle:endAngle:clockwise -- third
rounded corner
lineToPoint --forth side, to beginning of last
rounded corner
addArcWithCenter:radius:startAngle:endAngle:clockwise-- forth rounded
corner, connecting back to first side.
closePath
You can use PaintCodeApp so you don't have to write any of the drawing code. There's a demo download available: http://www.paintcodeapp.com/
You can refer below link to create a polygon shape with rounded corners.
http://www.scriptscoop.net/t/ec0f886dcfea/create-hexagon-imageview-shape-in-ios.html