ELLIPSE

Description

For use with graphics windows and graphic-boxes, ELLIPSE draws the outline of an ellipse shape centered at the pen position and w wide by h high.

There are five graphics commands that draw shapes:

box

circle

ellipse

line

pie

Syntax

This command is NOT case sensitive.

Using literal values

1. #handle "ellipse w h" - a graphics window
2. #handle.ext "ellipse w h" - a graphicbox

Using variable values

1. #handle "ellipse "; w;" "; h
2. #handle.ext "ellipse "; w;" "; h

w and h are the width and height of the ellipse.

Hints

Color & Size. Shapes are drawn with a pen color set by the color command and a line thickness set by the size command.

Filled Shapes. You cannot draw a shape and then fill it with color. (The fill command is used to fill the graphics window with color). Instead, to make a shape filled with color, use the complimentary shapefilled commands:

• boxfilled
• circlefilled
• ellipsefilled
• piefilled

Example

An example of the command using a graphics window.

nomainwin

    WindowWidth=400
    WindowHeight=300

    open "Draw Ellipse Demo" for graphics_nsb_nf as #g
    #g "trapclose [quit]"
    'put the pen down
    #g "down"
    'place pen at the center of the ellipse
    #g "place 150 150"
    'draw an ellipse 100 wide x 50 high
    #g "ellipse 100 50"

    wait

[quit]
    close #g
    end

An example of the command using a graphicbox.

nomainwin

    WindowWidth=400
    WindowHeight=300

    graphicbox #g.gb 2, 2, 390, 270
    open "Draw Ellipse Demo" for graphics_nsb_nf as #g
    #g "trapclose [quit]"
    'put the pen down
    #g.gb "down"
    'set pen color and size for shape
    #g.gb "color blue; size 3"
    'set a point at the center of the ellipse
    #g.gb "set 100 150"
    'draw an ellipse 100 wide x 50 high
    #g.gb "ellipse 100 50"

    wait

[quit]
    close #g
    end

An example combining four shape commands in a graphics window.

     nomainwin

    WindowWidth=400
    WindowHeight=300

    open "All Shapes Demo" for graphics_nsb_nf as #g
    #g "trapclose [quit]"

    'put the pen down
    #g "down"
    'set the pen color and size
    #g "color blue; size 2"
    'place and draw a box
    #g "place 10 10; box 150 150"
    'place and draw a circle
    #g "place 80 80; circle 40"
    'place and draw an ellipse
    #g "place 200 200; ellipse 100 50"
    'change pen color and size
    #g "color red; size 1"
    'draw a line
    #g "line 10 10 200 200"
    #g "flush" 'make graphics stick
    wait

[quit]
    close #g
    end

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