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Graphics::Primitive::Brush(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Graphics::Primitive::Brush(3pm)

NAME

Graphics::Primitive::Brush - Description of a stroke

DESCRIPTION

Graphics::Primitive::Brush represents the visible trace of 'ink' along a path.

SYNOPSIS

  use Graphics::Primitive::Brush;
  my $stroke = Graphics::Primitive::Brush->new({
    line_cap => 'round',
    line_join => 'miter',
    width => 2
  });

METHODS

Constructor

Creates a new Graphics::Primitive::Brush. Defaults to a width of 1, a line_cap 'butt' and a line_join of 'miter'.

Instance Methods

Set/Get this brush's color.
Set/Get the dash pattern. A dash pattern is an arrayref of numbers representing the lengths of the various line segments of the dash. Even numbered elements are considered opaque and odd elements are transparent.
Clone this brush but change one or more of it's attributes by passing in a hashref of options: 

  my $new = $brush->derive({ attr => $newvalue });

The returned font will be identical to the cloned one, save the attributes specified.

Returns 1 if this brush is equal to the supplied one, else returns 0.
Set/Get the line_cap of this stroke. Valid values are butt, round and square.
Set/Get the line_join of this stroke. Valid values are miter, round and bevel.
Opposite of equal_to.
Set/Get the width of this stroke. Defaults to 1

AUTHOR

Cory Watson, "<gphat@cpan.org>"

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2008-2010 by Cory G Watson.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

2022-06-14 perl v5.34.0