I would like to know if the rectangle drawn by a
Canvas.Rectangle(Rect) call will be sized according to Rect inside of the bounding line or the outside of line?

Say the rectangle is (10,4, 30,14) and the Pen.Wdth is set to 2, is the resulting shape 20 x 10 or 24 x 14 in size?

Bo Berglund wrote

Say the rectangle is (10,4, 30,14) and the Pen.Wdth is set to 2, is the resulting shape 20 x 10 or 24 x 14 in size?

This is why fpGUI uses (x, y, width, height) instead of (x1, y1, x2, y2), because the latter is just too confusing.

Anyway, I think LCL follows the following design... See the Qt4 documentation.

https://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-4.8/qrect.html#rendering

Regards,
Graeme

Thanks for the link! It seems like the border line involved by the pen property is interfering with the sizing of the rectangle...

I tested by doing this:
  Cnv.Pen.Width := 0;

Then I ran my code and the resulting rectangle looks better. Hard to say for sure since the pixels are so small...

My use case is this:
I have written a video editor where I can navigate a video in steps of fixed lengths and also by clicking on a progressbar showing the position in the video. It can also just play the video normally.

I can set markers on the start and end of a cut and add it to an array of cuts. Then a buttonclick will generate an ffmpeg command to cut and paste the video to create an edited video with only the cuts included.

What I wanted to do then was to place a thin panel below the progressbar where I would paint rectangles at the precise positions of the cuts so far entered to show how the edits are placed. It would show what parts of the video will be included inside the final edited video after ffmpeg processing.

I want the display to be as accurate as possible, that is why I started wondering about the actual rectangle size,

Seems like if one does not draw the border at all (pen.width = 0) the resulting rectangle will be painted within a pixel correctly placed and sized.

I love this list/(newsgroup via GMane), here is always someone to give good advice! :)

Bo Berglund wrote

Seems like if one does not draw the border at all (pen.width = 0) the resulting rectangle will be painted within a pixel correctly placed and sized.

If I recall correctly, both Win32 and XLib will render a line with the thinnest possible width, when you set Pen.Width = 0. But it's been a while since I read those docs, so don't hold me to it. ;-) I don't know what OSX does.

Regards,
Graeme