#6: gtkairo: cairo medium ellipse drawing and line styles -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Reporter: dlichteblau | Owner: somebody Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: component1 | Version: Keywords: | -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Gtkairo Bug 22:

The cairo version of medium-draw-ellipse* needs a rewrite.

(The gdk medium can draw ellipses just fine, however.)

The current implementation fills an ellipse, but completely fails when drawing its border:

{{{ ;; This one is tricky. Cairo doesn't know ellipses, it only knows ;; circles. But then it is fully capable to draw circles under affine ;; transformations only that the line style is transformed too. So ;; what we do: We setup an [additional] transformation to from our ;; ellipse to a circle and setup line style properly transformed. --- ;; This is not entirely correct in case of shearing or odd scaling ;; transformations. }}}

Unless cairo starts supporting ellipses natively, I would suggest using bezier curves to approximate an ellipse.