Chapter 21. Pencil Line Object

In this chapter

  • Creating a Pencil Object

  • Pencil Object Management

  • Next Steps

By choosing the Pencil creation icon seen in Figure 21.1, the user enters the interactive creation mode for a freestyle line.

Selecting the Pencil creation icon starts the process for a freestyle line.

Figure 21.1. Selecting the Pencil creation icon starts the process for a freestyle line.

The creation of the Pencil object begins with the first ButtonPress and ends with the next.

During the interim MotionNotify events separating the ButtonPress events starting and ending the creation, points are added to a points array defining the object under construction.

However, not every point is put into the array. This approach would ...

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