Removing default glyph boundary

[sladep]

Hi,

I am using image scripting associated with custom stereotypes. I have drawn one image using the lineoto commands. However, the total area of the image is 25 x 20, but the underlying glyph size dominates the diagram.  My question is how do I change the default glyph size so that the area occupied is the same as the image?

Slade

[KP]

It's hard to know for certain without seeing your shape script, but it sounds like a "pixel count vs percentage" confusion. With shape script functions such as moveto(), lineto(), rectangle() and ellipse(), their parameters all represent a percentage of the overall size. If you want a rectangle that is 25x20 pixels, it is tempting to use the command rectangle(0,0,25,20); but that would be wrong. First define the area as 25x20 and then use 100% of it, as follows:

shape main
{
    defsize(25,20);
    rectangle(0,0,100,100);
}

I hope this helps. If not, please post your shape script to this thread and we can see what is going wrong.

[sladep]

Tried that but it didn't work. Script follows:

shape main
{
noshadow="true";
scalable="false";
setfillcolor(0,0,255);
defsize(20,20);
startpath();
moveto(10,0);
lineto(20,20);
lineto(0,20);
lineto(10,0);
endpath();
fillandstrokepath();
}

Help!

[sladep]

Don't know what changed, but that is working now... Thanks