BitmapDataExtensionsDrawConicCurve(IReadWriteBitmapData, Pen, Point, Point, Point, Single, DrawingOptions, ParallelConfig) Method

Draws a conic curve with the specified Pen.

Definition

Namespace: KGySoft.Drawing.Shapes
Assembly: KGySoft.Drawing.Core (in KGySoft.Drawing.Core.dll) Version: 10.0.0-rc.1
C#
public static bool DrawConicCurve(
	this IReadWriteBitmapData bitmapData,
	Pen pen,
	Point p1,
	Point p2,
	Point p3,
	float weight,
	DrawingOptions? drawingOptions = null,
	ParallelConfig? parallelConfig = null
)

Parameters

bitmapData  IReadWriteBitmapData
The IReadWriteBitmapData instance to draw on.
pen  Pen
The Pen that determines the characteristics of the curves.
p1  Point
The starting point of the conic curve.
p2  Point
The control point of the conic curve.
p3  Point
The ending point of the conic curve.
weight  Single
The weight of the conic curve, which determines the shape of the curve. Must be a positive value.
drawingOptions  DrawingOptions  (Optional)
A DrawingOptions instance that specifies the drawing options to use. If , then the default options are used. This parameter is optional.
Default value: .
parallelConfig  ParallelConfig  (Optional)
The configuration of the operation such as parallelization, cancellation, reporting progress, etc. When Progress is set in this parameter, then this library always passes a DrawingOperation instance to the generic methods of the IAsyncProgress interface. If , then the degree of parallelization is configured automatically. This parameter is optional.
Default value: .

Return Value

Boolean
, if the operation completed successfully.
, if the operation has been canceled and the ThrowIfCanceled property of the parallelConfig parameter was .

Usage Note

In Visual Basic and C#, you can call this method as an instance method on any object of type IReadWriteBitmapData. When you use instance method syntax to call this method, omit the first parameter. For more information, see Extension Methods (Visual Basic) or Extension Methods (C# Programming Guide).

Remarks

If the weight is 1, the conic curve is equivalent to a parabolic (quadratic) Bézier curve. If the weight is less than 1, the curve is an elliptic arc, and if it's greater than 1, the curve is a hyperbolic arc.

This method tries to use a shortcut to draw the curve directly, which is faster than creating a Path and adding the curve to it. A shortcut is possible when the specified pen has a width between 0.25 and 1, it uses a solid Brush with an opaque color, and if drawingOptions is either , or its FastThinLines is enabled in drawingOptions, it specifies that no anti-aliasing and no alpha blending is required, the transformation is the identity matrix, and neither Quantizer nor Ditherer is specified.

When no shortcut can be used and the same curve is drawn repeatedly, creating a Path with PreferCaching enabled can provide a better performance.

  Note

This method blocks the caller as it executes synchronously, though the parallelConfig parameter allows configuring the degree of parallelism, cancellation and progress reporting. Use the BeginDrawConicCurve or DrawConicCurveAsync (in .NET Framework 4.0 and above) methods to perform the operation asynchronously.

If the curves are drawn by using a shortcut, then the operation cannot be canceled, it is not parallelized, and there is no progress reporting, regardless of the parallelConfig parameter.

Exceptions

ArgumentNullExceptionbitmapData or pen is .
ArgumentOutOfRangeExceptionweight must be a finite non-negative value.
OverflowExceptionA Path is created internally and the width or height of Path.Bounds overflows.
OperationCanceledExceptionThe operation has been canceled and the ThrowIfCanceled property in parallelConfig was .

See Also