xenial (3) canvas::edit::polyline.3tk.gz
NAME
canvas::edit::polyline - Editing a polyline on a canvas
SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.5
package require Tk 8.5
package require canvas::edit::points ?0.1?
package require canvas::edit::polyline ?0.1?
::canvas::edit polyline objectName canvas options...
objectName destroy
objectName enable
objectName disable
objectName active
objectName add x y
objectName clear
createCmd canvas x y
highlightCmd on canvas item
highlightCmd off canvas state
dataCmd editorObj coordinates
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DESCRIPTION
This package provides a class whose instances handle editing a single poly-line on a canvas. Instances
can be configured with regard to the visual appearance (regular, and highlighted) of the markers denoting
the line's vertices. Note that instances do not store the edited polyline themselves, but delegate this
to a configurable object.
CLASS API
::canvas::edit polyline objectName canvas options...
This, the class command, creates and configures a new instance of a polyline editor, named
objectName. The instance will be connected to the specified canvas widget.
The result of the command is the fully qualified name of the instance command.
The options accepted here, and their values, are explained in the section Options.
INSTANCE API
Instances of the polyline editors provide the following API:
objectName destroy
This method destroys the polyline editor and releases all its internal resources.
Note that this operation does not destroy the items the editor managed on the attached canvas, nor
the canvas itself.
The result of the method is an empty string.
objectName enable
This method activates editing of the polyline on the canvas. This is the default after instance
creation. A call is ignored if the editor is already active.
The result of the method is an empty string.
The complementary method is disable. The interogatory method for the current state is active.
objectName disable
This method disables editing of the polyline on the canvas. A call is ignored if the editor is
already disabled.
The result of the method is an empty string.
The complementary method is enable. The interogatory method for the current state is active.
objectName active
This method queries the editor state.
The result of the method is a boolean value, true if the editor is active, and false otherwise,
i.e. disabled.
The methods to change the state are enable and disable.
objectName add x y
This method programmatically adds a vertex at the specified location to the line.
The result of the method is an empty string.
Note that this method goes through the whole set of callbacks invoked when the user interactively
creates a vertex, i.e. -create-cmd, and, more importantly, -data-cmd.
One important difference however. The new vertex is always added at the end of the line, whereas
interactive creation uses heuristics to splice it into the line at a suitable location.
This is the method through which to load the vertices of a pre-existing line into an editor
instance.
objectName clear
This method programmatically removes all vertices from the editor, essentially removing the whole
line.
The result of the method is an empty string.
Note that this method goes through the same callbacks invoked when the user interactively removes
a vertex, i.e. -data-cmd.
OPTIONS
The class command accepts the following options
-tag string
The value of this option is the name of the canvas tag with which to identify all items of all
vertices managed by the editor.
This option can only be set at construction time.
If not specified it defaults to POLYLINE
-create-cmd command-prefix
The value of this option is a command prefix the editor will invoke when it has to create a new
vertex.
This option can only be set at construction time.
If not specified it defaults to a command which will create a black-bordered blue circle of radius
3 centered on the location of the new point.
The signature of this command prefix is
createCmd canvas x y
The result of the command prefix must be a list of the canvas items it created to represent
the marker. Note here that the visual representation of a "vertex" may consist of multiple
canvas items in an arbitrary shape.
The returned list of items is allowed to be empty, and such is taken as signal that the
callback vetoed the creation of the vertex.
-highlight-cmd command-prefix
The value of this option is a command prefix the editor will invoke when it has to (un)highlight a
vertex.
This option can only be set at construction time.
If not specified it defaults to a command which will re-color the item to highlight in red (and
restores the color for unhighlighting).
The two signatures of this command prefix are
highlightCmd on canvas item
This method of the command prefix has to perform whatever is needed to highlight the vertex
the item is a part of (remember the note above about points allowed to be constructed from
multiple canvas items).
The result of the command can be anything and will be passed as is as argument state to the
off method.
highlightCmd off canvas state
This method is invoked to unhighlight a vertex described by the state, which is the
unchanged result of the on method of the command prefix. The result of this method is
ignored.
Note any interaction between dragging and highlighting of vertices is handled within the
editor, and that the callback bears no responsibility for doing such.
-data-cmd command-prefix
The value of this option is a command prefix the editor will invoke when the line was edited in
some way (vertex added, removed, moved). This is how the editor delegates the actual storage of
the line information to an outside object.
This option can only be set at construction time.
If not specified it defaults to an empty string and is ignored by the editor, i.e. not invoked.
The signature of this command prefix is
dataCmd editorObj coordinates
This callback is invoked when the line was changed either interactively, or
programmatically. See instance method add for the latter.
The editorObj identifies the instance invoking the callback, whereas coordinates is a list
of vertex locations, with each location a pair of x- and y-coordinates.
The result of this method is ignored.
KEYWORDS
canvas, editing, polyline