PyX — Example: drawing/strokefill.py
Stroke and fill paths at the same time
from pyx import * c = canvas.canvas() c.stroke(path.rect(0, 0, 1, 1), [style.linewidth.Thick, color.rgb.red, deco.filled([color.rgb.green])]) c.writeEPSfile("strokefill") c.writePDFfile("strokefill") c.writeSVGfile("strokefill")
Description
In order to stroke and fill a path, you could call the fill and stroke methods of a canvas instance one after the other. However, such a solution is not optimal since the path would be written into the output file twice. Instead, you can use the filled decorator within a stroke method call as an additional attribute.
In the example code, the filled decorator is called to pass additional styles, which will then only be used for the fill operation. Other styles passed in the second argument of the stroke method are used for both, the stroke and the fill operation. Here we set a linewidth, which only affects the stroke operation.
A complementary functionality exists as well: you can use a deco.stroked instance to add a stroke operation within a fill method call.
The filled and stroked are pre-defined instances, but they accept a modify by call operation. This is a common feature of decorators and other attributes.
Internally, the stroke and the fill methods are implemented by adding either deco.stroked or deco.filled to the list passed as the second parameter to the stroke or fill method of a canvas. This whole construction is then evaluated by the draw method of the canvas instance. The draw method is really the basic operation to output a path. It transforms a path into a so-called decorated path. The mere path itself is a pure mathematical object without any information about how it should be drawn and which styles should be applied. Output-specific properties like dashing or the linewidth are not attached to the path at all. In contrast, the decorated path attaches styles and the two output operations stroke and fill to the mathematical path object. A symmetric stroke and fill operation therefore looks like
c.draw(p, l1 + [deco.stroked(l2), deco.filled(l3)])
where c is the canvas instance, p is the path to be stroked and filled, l1 is a list of styles used for both stroking and filling, l2 are additional styles used for stroking, and l3 are additional styles used for filling.