On Aug 19, 2013, at 17:25 , Roland King <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On 20 Aug, 2013, at 8:03 AM, Rick Mann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I'm drawing a couple of arcs and then calling ClosePath() to close up the 
>> shape I drew. This works great. But then I repeat the process in a different 
>> place, and stroke the whole thing. Unfortunately, Core Graphics adds a line 
>> from the last point in the closed path to the first point of the new arc I 
>> add. From my reading of the docs, this line shouldn't happen.
>> 
>> "After closing the subpath, your application can begin a new subpath without 
>> first calling CGContextMoveToPoint. In this case, a new subpath is 
>> implicitly created with a starting and current point equal to the previous 
>> subpath’s starting point."
>> 
> 
> From my reading that's exactly what should happen. You close the subpath then 
> you implicitly start one because you didn't call CGContextMoveToPoint() when 
> you add the next arc, that path starts from the original starting point of 
> the old subpath (which is functionally exactly the same as the endpoint). So 
> the new subpath starts with a line to the start of your new arc from the 
> start of the previous path. If you don't want that, do the move. 
> 
> There's a difference between a context with no path at all and a context 
> which already contains subpaths, closed or not. 

Oh, I think you're right. Pity. It makes working with arcs a real pain. I have 
to compute the arc's starting point and move to it. Unless I'm missing 
something?


-- 
Rick




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