[cairo] how do you draw an outline of a circle/ellipse

[Mark Olesen]

I now see the problem and agree with Bill's reasoning. Hopefully, the lock
solution will be put into play in a future version.

Thanks for the support folks.

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 1:32 AM, Mark Olesen <markjolesen at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am unable to create an outline of a circle/ellipse.
> cairo_stroke below fills instead of creating an outline.
> Any ideas?
>
> double width= 100;
> double height= 100;
> double x= 100;
> double y= 100;
>
> cairo_save (cr);
> cairo_set_source_rgb(cr, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0);
> cairo_translate (cr, x + width / 2., y + height / 2.);
> cairo_scale (cr, width / 2., height / 2.);
> cairo_arc (cr, 0., 0., 1., 0., 2 * M_PI);
> cairo_stroke (cr);
> cairo_restore (cr);
>
> Following is the version of cairo I am using:
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      21 Oct 31 05:03 /usr/lib/libcairo.so ->
> libcairo.so.2.11400.4
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      21 Oct 31 05:03 /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 ->
> libcairo.so.2.11400.4
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1236288 Oct 31 05:03 /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2.11400.4
>
> If I get rid of scale, and put in a value for radius, such as 10, it will
> draw the outline. However, I will need cairo_scale to create an ellipse.
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark
>
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