Rounded Corners

**abligh** · 15 June 2006, 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by PhilM

Alex,

The quickshapes are defined in a square orthogonal coordinate space then tranformed into the drawing so that complex shapes like stars with recurved edges (and rounded corners) can be plotted easily.

Rectangles are just special cases of quickshapes and inherit some of their behaviour.

(Didn't you invent the data structure for quickshapes?)

Phil

Urrrm, yes, but that doesn't mean they or their implementation are perfect! I think probably what is needed is something which removes the non-linear aspect of the scale component from the current transformation matrix and applies that instead to the underlying rectangle. This could be done (for instance) on adding the rounded corners, so toggling the button to remove them and re-add them would add them back "normally". I think it's doable in mathematical terms, just requires an implementation...

**Charles Moir** · 16 June 2006, 07:53 AM

I'm not sure toggling the button would be good - because toggling usually implies back and forth to where they just started from.

However I think it would be preferable to make it so that rounded corners always remains rounded no matter how you squash or stretch the rectangle. If they really want to stretch the rounded corners as well, then Convert to Shapes first.

**Xhris** · 19 June 2006, 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by Charles Moir

I'm not sure toggling the button would be good - because toggling usually implies back and forth to where they just started from.

However I think it would be preferable to make it so that rounded corners always remains rounded no matter how you squash or stretch the rectangle. If they really want to stretch the rounded corners as well, then Convert to Shapes first.

Something that could be useful could be an option to manipulate the corner vertices independently but symmetrically about all corners of the object e.g. by holding shift while dragging a vertex etc. This would allow for manual control of the aspect ratio. An option somewhere to allow a square aspect ratio to be applied/toggled would allow maximum user control.