[cairo] Draw a rectangle with dash lines

[Jeff Muizelaar]

Probably, the path stroking code has changed some since 1.0.2.

-Jeff

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:17:36AM -0600, ken carlino wrote:
> Thanks. I am using cario 1.0.2.  Can you please tell me if I need to
> upgrade to 1.3.2 before i can apply your patch?
> 
> thanks again.
> 
> On 2/5/07, Jeff Smith <whydoubt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >I have just tracked down and sent in a patch for this bug (more info and 
> >patch in bugzilla).
> >
> >https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4863
> >
> > -- Jeff Smith
> >
> >----- Original Message ----
> >From: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
> >To: ken carlino <ken.carlino at gmail.com>
> >Cc: cairo at cairographics.org
> >Sent: Saturday, February 3, 2007 9:34:22 AM
> >Subject: Re: [cairo] Draw a rectangle with dash lines
> >
> >On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 00:27:18 -0600, "ken carlino" wrote:
> >> It works in some cases, but in some cases, I see a rect with dash
> >> lines and a filled triangle which covers half of the rect (from one
> >> top corner to another bottom corner).
> >
> >This is a fairly long-standing, (and very embarrassing), known bug.
> >
> >Matthias Clasen first reported the bug sometime after the 1.0 release:
> >
> >    stroking problems with wide dashed lines
> >    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4863
> >
> >And we added a test case for this to cairo's test suite, (leaky-dash).
> >
> >It's obviously a quite nasty bug, (a drawing error that is effectively
> >"infinite"). And before the 1.2 release we tried making all test suite
> >failures go away.
> >
> >This one though, we didn't have time to fix. So we made a conscious
> >decision to release in spite of the known bug, (one comforting thing
> >was that we at least hadn't seen a lot of duplicate reports).
> >
> >Anyway, here I am caught with a duplicate report just before the 1.4
> >release, and we still don't have the bug fixed.
> >
> >If somebody wanted to try to track this down that would be very
> >helpful. The way these kinds of bugs usually go is that there's a fair
> >amount of work looking into exactly what happens. But once that work
> >is done, actually fixing the bug isn't actually that hard.
> >
> >So, I've never gotten around to the investigation part, but if someone
> >else could help with this, that would be great.
> >
> >-Carl
> >
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