Re: polygon issues

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday 15 October 2008 14:03:07 Manfred Schwarb wrote:
> > > 2) clipping:
> > >   At the plot borders, these objects seem to be clipped (cut off). As I use these objects as 
> > >   somehow generic drawing objects in a mixture with "set arrow", things become 
> > >   really messy, as arrows are not clipped.
> > >   What I would need are objects that are not clipped, so I can use the whole screen.
> > >   Up to now I found no way to deactivate this clipping feature. Is there a way to do so?
> > 
> > Heh.  You have no idea how much time I spent to get that clipping to work.
> > 
> 
> Hmm :-) I guess doing this clipping is a reasonable default and what
> most people probably expect.
> 
> > But yes, I can imagine there are cases when clipping is undesirable.
> > The question is: is that a property of the object or a property of the whole plot?
> > I'll have to think about it.

I have modified the code in CVS so that if all the polygon vertices are
given in screen coordinates, then it is clipped against the full canvas
rather than against the plot borders.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt